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SEC pushes back championship Vols-Gators, two other league games set for Dec. 1
Updated: Monday September 17, 2001 5:44 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- The Southeastern Conference has pushed its championship game back a week to Dec. 8 so that teams can make up league games postponed because of last week's terrorist attacks. The three conference games originally scheduled for Sept. 15 will be played on Dec. 1. Those games were No. 8 Tennessee at No. 2 Florida, Auburn at No. 15 LSU and Vanderbilt at Mississippi. The Georgia Dome was initially booked Dec. 8 for the semifinals of the state high school playoffs, but was freed up because the high schools also postponed their games last weekend and pushed back their postseason plans by a week. Kickoff time for the SEC championship game will be announced later. The member schools will be responsible for rescheduling the non-conference games, the SEC said. The nonconference games were South Carolina-Bowling Green, Alabama-Southern Mississippi, Houston-Georgia, Kentucky-Indiana, Arkansas-North Texas and Mississippi State-Brigham Young. Officials at those schools are still trying to resolve their schedules. The scheduling change gives Florida a brutal final stretch. The Gators play at No. 18 South Carolina on Nov. 10, then have home games with No. 6 Florida State (Nov. 17) and Tennessee (Dec. 1). The first SEC game will be South Carolina-Mississippi State on Thursday night in Starkville, Miss. Coach Lou Holtz has survived several scares on planes in his years as a frequent flier, and isn't worried. "A coward dies a thousand deaths," Holtz said. "You can't go
around being worried about this or that. You put the faith in the
people in the airline that says it's safe and then you get on an
airplane and you go."
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