BATON ROUGE — The LSU-Auburn football game scheduled for 6:45 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, in Tiger Stadium has been postponed, the LSU Athletic Department announced on Thursday afternoon.
The postponement was made after consultations among the Southeastern Conference members’ Presidents, Chancellors and Athletic Directors and SEC Commissioner Roy Kramer.
“In obviously what is one of the toughest times in American history, decisions are very, very tough to make,” LSU Athletics Director Skip Bertman said. “We support the SEC’s decision not to play and we hope to make this game up at a later date.”
Plans for a make-up date for the LSU-Auburn game have yet to be determined. Fans are asked to hold onto their tickets to the game until further details about the game are announced.
Head Coach Nick Saban’s Comments:
“I understand the circumstances and I understand the impact of what’s happened to our country and to the people that are involved with this. I certainly respect the decision that we’ve made and I’m very supportive of it.
“What we’ve tried to do here this week is help our players to focus so that if we did play, that we were going to be able to play well. Now that’s not a possibility so we have to look ahead and focus on what we need to do later on.
“There are more important things for all of us to think about right now and that’s the well-being of our country and all of the people that have been affected by this tragedy. We have a couple of days to reflect on that. We didn’t have that opportunity to do that before, now we do.
“There are more important things than a football game and this is one of those situations right now.”