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Florida State's game with Virginia today was called off just hours before kick-off. It's the second straight week that a team has traveled to Tallahassee, only to discover on the day of the game that no game will take place.
The game between Rice and UTEP (at Rice) was also canceled on game day, due to positive tests and contact tracing within the UTEP program. The Owls have played just 3 games while the Miners have had 3 of their last 4 games get scratched.
San Jose State at Boise State was also scratched on game day due to Covid issues within the Broncos' program.
Last week, a Clemson player traveled with the team to Tallahassee and then tested positive on Friday. Due to the lack of time for appropriate contact tracing measures to be taken, both teams agreed Saturday morning - in concert with ACC officials - that it wasn't safe to play the game.
This time, the issue came from within the Florida State program.
It's the first time that Virginia has had a game scratched.
From Seminoles.com:
“Our team underwent the mandated third-party testing yesterday and learned late last night that we had one positive test. Contact tracing this morning determined that, with opt-outs and injuries, we had just 44 scholarship players for the game, with some position groups depleted almost entirely.
“We deeply regret that many Florida State and Virginia fans have already traveled to the game as well as Virginia’s team. We simply had no way of knowing we would not be playing until this morning We made every effort to play, but we could not do so in a way that was safe for the players.”
More details regarding the rescheduled game, including ticket information, will be announced at a later date.
From the ACC.com:
The Atlantic Coast Conference announced that today’s Virginia at Florida State football game has been postponed.
The rescheduling follows positive tests, subsequent quarantining, and contact tracing within the Florida State football team. The team is adhering to the outlined protocols within the ACC Medical Advisory Group report, which is available on theACC.com (full report).
As was previously announced, the 2020 ACC Football scheduling model includes 11 games (10 conference plus one non-conference), played over at least 13 weeks with each team having two open dates. Through games of Nov. 21, the ACC has played 69 of its 78 scheduled games (88.5 percent). Six of those games have been rescheduled, one non-conference opponent was replaced, one game was canceled and one game was postponed. There have been several changes to the last four weeks of the schedule that can be found on theACC.com.