The anticipated college football showdown between No. 2 Georgia and No. 6 Alabama inside Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday could be altered by Tropical Storm Isaias.
Multiple weather models are calling for heavy bands of rain and winds in excess of 40 mph for the matchup, which has a 7:30 p.m. Eastern kickoff on ABC. A faster track by the storm would still eliminate the opportunities to tailgate in Tuscaloosa but could allow things to start drying out for the game.
“It’s uncertainty beyond my control, so we as coaches game plan for multiple situations and weather conditions,” Georgia 11th-year coach Kirby Smart said during his Wednesday appearance on the Southeastern Conference teleconference. “We had the same prep last week with the threat of those things. It doesn’t change a lot about practice.
“You have to practice good on good, and you have to practice for the long term of the season and not just for one week. You can’t really practice or simulate conditions, so you’re much better off to just educate and learn from the past from other people who have played in these kinds of games.”
Smart said he does not have any input in terms of contingency plans should the game need to get adjusted but that he does receive updates about “the way things are leaning.”