Several faculty soccer video games and one NFL sport might be affected by Hurricane Ian this weekend because the storm bears down on Florida.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are scheduled to host the Kansas City Chiefs within the NFL’s Sunday Night Football showcase spot.
But Ian is predicted to wreck the Tampa space starting Wednesday. The Bucs have already left city and can follow in Miami all week. Last yr, the NFL moved a Green Bay Packers at New Orleans Saints sport to Jacksonville in Week 1 due to Hurricane Ida.
As of Tuesday evening, the NFL hasn’t introduced any adjustments to the sport plan for Chiefs at Bucs. If any are in retailer, the league will decide by Friday on the newest, based on USA Today.
Three faculties have already made choices. The Florida Gators had been scheduled to host Eastern Washington on Saturday at midday in Gainesville, however pushed the sport again 24 hours, to Sunday.
South Carolina was additionally alleged to play at midday on Saturday, towards South Carolina State. Instead, the Gamecocks and Bulldogs will transfer their in-state rivalry to 7 p.m. Thursday.
And South Florida, which normally performs its dwelling video games within the Buccaneers’ stadium, will as a substitute host East Carolina on the other facet of Florida, in Boca Raton. The ECU-USF sport was additionally moved from 7 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Three extra video games within the hurricane’s potential path had been nonetheless on the schedule as of Tuesday evening: Wake Forest at Florida State, in Tallahassee; SMU at UCF, in Orlando; and N.C. State at Clemson, in Clemson, S.C.
Florida State and UCF each canceled courses from Wednesday to Friday however deliberate to reopen Saturday for soccer. Coaches in any respect six faculties mentioned their universities are monitoring the scenario.
“Sounds like it’s going to be wet, but it’s going to be wet for both sides,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney mentioned at a press convention. “We’ll have to find a way.”
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Source: www.bostonherald.com