Jags vs Southern Miss Date Change; Tulane Replaces Grambling For Home Opener
South Alabama Athletics announced two scheduling changes on Thursday.
The season opener against Southern Miss has moved up to Thursday, September 3. It was originally scheduled for Saturday, September 5th.
In an effort to replace the Jags home opener against Grambling, which was cancelled when the SWAC announced the postponement of the football season to the spring, has scheduled Tulane to visit Mobile.
USA was trying to schedule an FCS school to replace FCS Grambling but was unable to find anyone to fill that hole in the schedule. Apparently they did not want to take the chance of forever having a home opening loss in Hancock Whitney Stadium to go down as a loss to in-state foe (can’t really call them a rival…yet) UAB.
As for attendance for the season opener at Southern Miss, or attendance at home this season, there has not been an official announcement. So far it is presumed that home game attendance will be limited to 25% if fans are permitted to attend games at all, at least in the early part of the season.
Take a look at our previous article about attendance numbers and why USA should consider playing their home games at Ladd-Peebles this season due to the reduced attendance numbers because of the pandemic.
Check back for updates as they come.
Go Jags!