at least it's official that the university has suspended normal operations, cancelled finals and rescheduled graduation for August 6. What is not official is the alleged instruction for students to leave Tuscaloosa and go home.
Alabama is scheduled to play at MSU this weekend, starting with a doubleheader on Saturday. An Alabama team spokesman said athletic officials are meeting this afternoon to determine whether the team will travel to Starkville
At the end of the day, we really need other teams to lose as much as anything. Here's an example of how using winning percentage either helps us or really isn't a factor:
With 30 games, we would need to win 3 more games than ole miss, auburn, and arkansas in the remaining 12 to overtake them.
With 27 games, we only need to win 1 more than they do in our 9 and their 12.
At 4 games below .500 we will need some teams to really finish poorly to make up the ground. Basically, our margin for error is zero. By playing fewer games, the losses hurt more and the wins help more.
which has decided to only delay the exams that were supposed to take place today until May 8th. All other exams are scheduled as planned, which is insane.