BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU athletic director Joe Alleva has no interest in sacrificing a home game to play Saturday’s scheduled game against Florida that was postponed last week as Hurricane Matthew approached the Florida coast.
There has been rampant speculation since the SEC announced the postponement on Thursday that Florida and LSU would buy out nonconference games on Nov. 19 – Florida against Presbyterian and LSU against South Alabama – so the SEC teams could play that day in Gainesville. Not so fast, Alleva said.
“What I said the other day about this game being very difficult to reschedule is still true,” Alleva said Monday ahead of interim coach Ed Orgeron’s weekly press luncheon.