Will LSU vs Florida be rescheduled?

Will the LSU-Florida game be rescheduled at all this season?

As of Thursday afternoon, Hurricane Matthew has reached Category 4 status. It’s also likely to strengthen into a Cat 5 as the weekend approaches. Hurricane Matthew has made landfall in the Sunshine State and is slated to affect the weekend for some three to four million people, including college football plans.

The hurricane is expected to sweep the lower half of the Eastern seaboard, ending its life on Sunday morning in Charleston.

That doesn’t bring good news to the college football landscape.

According to CBS Miami, the path of the hurricane will unload its weather on three games this weekend: Virginia Tech-UNC, Florida State-Miami and LSU-Florida. Unsurprisingly, LSU-Florida has made its decision to officially postpone their meeting.

Initial reports stated that it may not be possible to reschedule said meeting later on in the season, but now the official LSU Football Twitter account confirmed that it’s only been “postponed.”

Other games projected to start around the affected areas, like Notre Dame-N.C. State, remain unchanged, but even with a drizzle of rain and minor wind gusts, is it really that imperative that the games play on?

The SEC is no stranger to changing its itinerary, since it straddles the hot spot for hurricane activity in the Atlantic. For example, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina forced Tulane to play nothing but away games and LSU had to remaster their entire schedule in 2005.

As for this year’s matchup between LSU and Florida, reports have been going back and forth on the issue of rescheduling. That said, it’s unlikely that these two teams will meet each other at midfield this year.

The SEC has released a statement on the probability that this game might be rescheduled:

"At this time the schools do not have a common open date on which to reschedule the game, so the schools and SEC Office will make every effort to find a scheduling solution with the possible movement of other games on the schools’ schedules."

Florida Governor Rick Scott firmly planted his foot on the ground concerning the situation.

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If residents or tourists dare to venture out into the storm without any precautions, it’ll likely “kill you.” Also, furthering any act of stupidity against Mother Nature at this magnitude, Scott also claimed that “we won’t save you.”

Curiosity did, in fact, kill the cat.

For a full listing of other events cancelled by Hurricane Matthew, click here.