This is the first bowl game I've seen cancelled due to COVID.

Quote:The Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, which has been played every year since its inception in 1935, has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...first-1935

Edit: Apparently there have been 9 so far.

Quote:The Sun Bowl is the ninth bowl game canceled because of COVID-19; the Bahamas, Celebration, Fenway, Hawaii, Holiday, Motor City, Pinstripe and Redbox bowls are the others.

The Sun Bowl pits teams from the ACC and Pac-12. The ACC has now lost four bowl games that it had tie-ins with (Fenway, Holiday, Pinstripe and Sun); the Pac-12 has lost three (Holiday, Redbox and Sun).

with the regulations by the governor, I can't see any bowls that are in California being able to operate

They already cancelled the Pinstripe Bowl.

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PERSPECTIVE: Coronavirus Patients from Mexico Crossing Border and Straining U.S. Hospitals

Pieced together over a six-month period, isolated accounts like this from hospital administrators, local officials, and federal officials in all of the border states reveal an unknown but significant northward coronavirus patient migration that has gone neither recognized nor considered for policy responses to contain it. In a nutshell, here is what is happening in U.S. states that border Mexico.

Mexicans sick with the virus have overrun hospitals in their own cities south of the border since at least May 2020 to the point that Mexican facilities were unable to care for new patients. Left with no care on the Mexico side, unknown but significant numbers of COVID-sick patients with green cards, dual citizenship, or border-crossing passes have exploited legal loopholes in President Trump’s March 2020 emergency closure so they can reach U.S. hospitals. Other ill crossers are American expatriates, while some were Mexican patients who illegally cross outside of the ports of entry.

At issue – in the general national failure to recognize this contribution to the U.S. hospital crisis – is whether American policy-makers have ever considered it in implementing lockdowns, social-distancing requirements, and other local U.S. policies intended to preserve hospital systems in hard-hit border states like Texas. In ordering measures that would only control local spread that occurred inside the United States – policies that could not, of course, influence behaviors inside Mexico – U.S. leaders are at risk of repeating a potentially consequential public health mistake that occurred during the summer.

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The Sun Bowl and Holiday Bowl are both old / traditional bowls. The rest are the recent ESPN bowls.

If you've noticed the reports coming from El Paso, you can see why they would cancel the bowl, with it being such a hotspot.

Las Vegas just cancelled, so we're up to 10 bowl games cancelled.

If a tree fell in the woods and no one was around to hear.......

Why cancel bowls that don't typically have people at the game anyway? lol They're already covid ready!

(12-01-2020 11:27 PM)Cletus Wrote:  .
PERSPECTIVE: Coronavirus Patients from Mexico Crossing Border and Straining U.S. Hospitals

Pieced together over a six-month period, isolated accounts like this from hospital administrators, local officials, and federal officials in all of the border states reveal an unknown but significant northward coronavirus patient migration that has gone neither recognized nor considered for policy responses to contain it. In a nutshell, here is what is happening in U.S. states that border Mexico.

Mexicans sick with the virus have overrun hospitals in their own cities south of the border since at least May 2020 to the point that Mexican facilities were unable to care for new patients. Left with no care on the Mexico side, unknown but significant numbers of COVID-sick patients with green cards, dual citizenship, or border-crossing passes have exploited legal loopholes in President Trump’s March 2020 emergency closure so they can reach U.S. hospitals. Other ill crossers are American expatriates, while some were Mexican patients who illegally cross outside of the ports of entry.

At issue – in the general national failure to recognize this contribution to the U.S. hospital crisis – is whether American policy-makers have ever considered it in implementing lockdowns, social-distancing requirements, and other local U.S. policies intended to preserve hospital systems in hard-hit border states like Texas. In ordering measures that would only control local spread that occurred inside the United States – policies that could not, of course, influence behaviors inside Mexico – U.S. leaders are at risk of repeating a potentially consequential public health mistake that occurred during the summer.

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We are seeing the same issue on a local level here in Shelby County. People in neighboring counties where covid restrictions are less are coming to Shelby County and straining hospitals. It is why Republicans and Democrats in leadership positions in thhe county are begging TN's governor to implement a state wide mask mandate.

well, there were hospitals in the smaller populated counties around memphis

but baptist and Methodist went and bought them and shut them down

wife and i were at a restaurant in olive branch this week and a group of 28 came in to eat, probably from memphis
since they could did do that in memphis

Total of 16 bowl games cancelled, with 39 remaining. I'm glad our guys will get to play, but there are so many other teams opting out (including Norvell at Florida State and Fuente at Virginia Tech, but I guess their losing records didn't help)

Quote:TEAMS OPTING OUT OF POSTSEASON (21)
Arizona State
Boise State
Boston College
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Kansas State
Louisville
Maryland
Michigan State
Penn State
Pitt
San Diego State
SMU (COVID-19 issues)
Stanford
UCLA
USC
Utah
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Washington (COVID-19 issues)
Washington State

CANCELED BOWL GAMES (16)
Birmingham Bowl
ACC vs. SEC

Frisco Bowl
SMU vs. UTSA

Guaranteed Rate Bowl
Big 12 vs. Pac-12

Bahamas Bowl
C-USA vs. MAC

Celebration Bowl
MEAC vs. SWAC

Fenway Bowl
AAC vs. ACC

Hawaii Bowl
AAC vs. Mountain West

Holiday Bowl
ACC vs. Pac-12

Independence Bowl
Army vs. TBD

Las Vegas Bowl
Pac-12 vs. SEC

Los Angeles Bowl
Pac-12 vs. Mountain West

Military Bowl
ACC vs. American

Pinstripe Bowl
ACC vs. Big Ten

Quick Lane Bowl
ACC, Big Ten, MAC

Redbox Bowl
Big Ten vs. Pac-12

Sun Bowl
ACC vs. Pac-12

BOWL GAMES (29)
Dec. 21
Myrtle Beach Bowl
Appalachian State vs. North Texas
2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Brooks Stadium in Conway, South Carolina


Dec. 22
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Nevada vs. Tulane
3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho

Boca Raton Bowl
UCF vs. BYU
7 p.m. ET, ESPN
FAU Stadium in Boca Raton, Florida

Dec. 23
New Orleans Bowl
Georgia Southern vs. Louisiana Tech
3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans

Montgomery Bowl
Memphis vs. Florida Atlantic
7 p.m. ET, ESPN or ESPN2
Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama

Dec. 24
New Mexico Bowl
Hawaii vs. Houston
3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Toyota Stadium in Prisco, Texas


Dec. 25
Camellia Bowl
Buffalo vs. Marshall
2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama

Dec. 26
Gasparilla Bowl
South Carolina vs. UAB
Noon ET, ABC
Raymond James Stadium in Tampa


Cure Bowl
Liberty vs. Coastal Carolina
Noon ET, ESPN
Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida

First Responder Bowl
UTSA vs. Louisiana
3:30 p.m. ET, ABC
Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas, Texas


LendingTree Bowl
Western Kentucky vs. Georgia State
3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama


Dec. 29
Cheez-It Bowl
Miami vs. Oklahoma State
5:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida


Alamo Bowl
Texas vs. Colorado
9;00 p.m. ET, ESPN
Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas

Dec. 30
Duke’s Mayo Bowl
Wake Forest vs. Wisconsin
Noon ET, ESPN
Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina

Music City Bowl
Iowa vs. Missouri
3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee

Cotton Bowl
No. 7 Florida vs. No. 6 Oklahoma
7:15 p.m. ET, ESPN
AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas

Dec. 31
Armed Forces Bowl
Mississippi State vs. Tulsa
Noon ET, ESPN
Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas

Arizona Bowl
Ball State vs. San Jose State
2 p.m. ET, CBS Sports Network
Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona

Liberty Bowl
West Virginia vs. Tennessee
4 p.m. ET, ESPN
Liberty Bowl Stadium in Memphis


Texas Bowl
TCU vs. Arkansas
8 p.m. ET, ESPN
NRG Stadium in Houston


Jan. 1
Peach Bowl
No. 8 Cincinnati vs. No. 9 Georgia
12:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta

Citrus Bowl
Northwestern vs. Auburn
1 p.m. ET, ABC
Camping World Bowl in Orlando, Florida


Rose Bowl
No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 Notre Dame(College Football Playoff)
5 p.m. ET, ESPN
AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas


Sugar Bowl
No. 2 Clemson vs. No. 3 Ohio State(College Football Playoff)
8:45 p.m. ET, ESPN
Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans


Jan. 2
Gator Bowl
NC State vs. Kentucky
Noon ET, ESPN
TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida

Outback Bowl
Indiana vs. Ole Miss
12:30 p.m. ET, ABC
Raymond James Stadium in Tampa

Fiesta Bowl
No. 25 Oregon vs. No. 10 Iowa State
4 p.m. ET, ESPN
State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona

Orange Bowl
No. 13 North Carolina vs. No. 5 Texas A&M
8 p.m. ET, ESPN
Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida

Jan. 11
College Football Playoff National Championship
Rose Bowl winner vs. Sugar Bowl winner
8 p.m. ET, ESPN
Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida

I hope everyone understands that the Independence Bowl was cancelled for the sole reason that PAC12 teams considered themselves to be above Army and refused to play them.

(12-21-2020 09:19 AM)Stammers Wrote:  I hope everyone understands that the Independence Bowl was cancelled for the sole reason that PAC12 teams considered themselves to be above Army and refused to play them.

That's the way I read that as well. Also, none of them wanted to be destroyed by a 9-2 Army. Being independent didn't help Army either...

A lot of the cancellations have to do with P5 teams deciding not to play.
It's what I suggested a month ago might happen, and as a reason why Memphis might get to play in the Liberty.
But of course, the LB just sells themselves out to loser dredges from P5 conferences.

Memphis fans should never attend another Liberty Bowl game. Don't support the org that has refused support for the university so many years. Heck, the last time I looked in the airport lobby (earlier this year), they hadn't even updated the replica trophy to recognize our participation from 2017. I guess Ehrhart is so busy working on that one game a year (for his big fat salary) that he doesn't have time to take care of things like updating trophies.

Just give the money directly to St. Jude instead.

(12-21-2020 04:45 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  Memphis fans should never attend another Liberty Bowl game. Don't support the org that has refused support for the university so many years. Heck, the last time I looked in the airport lobby (earlier this year), they hadn't even updated the replica trophy to recognize our participation from 2017. I guess Ehrhart is so busy working on that one game a year (for his big fat salary) that he doesn't have time to take care of things like updating trophies.

Just give the money directly to St. Jude instead.