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Florida cancels spring football game; will other SEC schools follow?

Details are scarce around the Southeastern Conference as schools near spring football season. Tuesday Florida became the first high profile program to announce they will not host a spring football game in 2021.

Dan Mullen’s team will hold the first of 15 spring practices this Thursday. Athletic director Scott Stricklin announced the season will not culminate with a game in front of fans inside The Swamp. “Hosting fans for an intra-squad spring football scrimmage seems unwise given all the circumstances, including the fact that Ben Hill Griffin Stadium is being used as a large scale COVID testing and vaccination site.