During the second Saturday of September last year, there was no college football played in the state of Florida. Schools like the Florida State Seminoles, Florida Gators and UCF Knights canceled games at home while the Miami Hurricanes and USF Bulls canceled road trips and the FIU Panthers moved their game to Alabama and FAU played their scheduled game at Wisconsin.
Why did this all take place? Well, there was this little thing called Hurricane Irma – a storm that, at its highest point, was a potentially catastrophic Category 5 storm – that was barreling down on the Caribbean and charting a course toward the Sunshine State, landing Sunday morning September 10th and proving that there are more important things than football.