The Southeastern Conference elected to scratch this afternoon’s Florida-LSU football game in Gainesville and chose to push tonight’s Georgia-South Carolina game in Columbia to Sunday afternoon.
Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity does not believe the league’s two situations impacted by Hurricane Matthew should be compared.
“The big difference between the Gainesville scenario and the Columbia scenario is that Gainesville is right in the middle,” McGarity said Friday morning. “They’re going to have winds of 40, 50 or 60 miles an hour in the city of Gainesville, whereas Columbia will get some wind and some rain, but nothing to the magnitude that they’re going to experience in Gainesville. The two really aren’t that similar, and, in fact, they’re very different.
“If the security services were not able to be provided up to the standards South Carolina felt comfortable with, I’m sure the decision would have been different from the decision we reached.”
South Carolina coach Will Muschamp announced Thursday night on his weekly call-in show that the game between the Bulldogs (3-2, 1-2 SEC) and Gamecocks (2-3, 1-3) would be moved to Sunday. The SEC then sent out a release stating kickoff time at Williams-Brice Stadium would be 2:30 p.m. and the game still will be televised by the SEC Network.