OT - Florida's upcoming game against N. Colorado cancelled due to Hurricane

Submitted by Brhino on

Title says it all. With no shared off week, the game will not be scheduled.

Florida fans seem to be mostly understanding, but they were looking forward to getting the bad taste of the Michigan game out of their mouth.  Now they have to wait a week before they play Tennessee instead.

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NittanyFan

September 7th, 2017 at 10:12 PM ^

Pensacola, Florida is further west than the entire Lower Peninsula.  

Another fun fact like that: For one hour every year (the hour immediately following the Central Time Zone setting their clocks back) --- the time in Pensacola is the same as it is in portions of eastern Oregon.  E.g., the time is the same in (1) a portion of a state that borders the Atlantic, and (2) a portion of a state that borders the Pacific.

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Goggles Paisano

September 8th, 2017 at 7:52 AM ^

I live here.  The storm won't really impact the early Saturday games, but trying to get out of here is near impossible. Airports are closing.  Also those evacuating from South Florida take I-75 and that rolls right thru Gainesville.  If the Gators were to play, that game traffic would really gunk up the already large mess of people trying to head north.  The other issue is that gas in this state is now scarce.  It is a bad situation down here right now and cancelling these games is absolutely the right thing to do.  

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The Fugitive

September 7th, 2017 at 9:20 PM ^

probably for the best, we don't want Florida starting 0-2.

McElwain is hoping Hurricane Irma goes all Sharknado resutling in selachimorpha on his lawn for the ultimate hump session.

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enlightenedbum

September 7th, 2017 at 10:18 PM ^

There's hurricanes and then there are hurricanes.  Irma is the strongest Atlantic storm that never reached the Gulf of Mexico ever.  It had sustained winds of 185 mph longer than any storm anywhere on the planet ever has.  One of five in the Atlantic ever to reach 185 period.  Also it's gigantic.  There are some images floating around of satellite images of Irma vs. Hurricane Andrew, which is the second costliest storm in US history.  Irma is like twice the radius so four times the size.

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crg

September 8th, 2017 at 6:08 AM ^

Pet peeve of mine: this is not necessarily the strongest hurricane in the part of the world "ever" - just since reliable record keeping has been in place (maybe 200 years or so at best). The still leaves a few million years that the continent has had this general shape and location, which has probably had some stronger storms in that time. A few hundred years is a blink of an eye on a geological time scale.

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J.

September 8th, 2017 at 12:18 PM ^

I bet McElwain is really kicking himself now for not delaying those suspensions until the Northern Colorado game in order to punish them extra by making them miss a home game.  Then, when the game gets postponed, "they learned their lesson."

Dude really needs to learn how discipline is done in the SEC.

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goblue16

September 7th, 2017 at 9:26 PM ^

Why can't they just move the games to Friday? Usf and Miami both cancelled their games as well due to travel issues but they could have also played their games on Friday. Anyone know why

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