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No. 19 Herd, Panthers matchup postponed

The No. 19 Marshall Thundering Herd football team will not be making a trip to visit the Sunshine State this week. The Herd was supposed to take on Florida International University Panthers, but due to COVID-19 issues at FIU, the game has been postponed.

FIU released Tuesday that due to the lack of available scholarship student-athletes because of quarantining COVID-19 postive tests, contact tracing and injuries, per Marshall Athletics.

Following its recent 20-9 victory against the Florida Atlantic University Owls, Marshall moved up in the national ranked polls, going from No. 22 to No. 19 in the AP Top 25 Poll and from No.