{"id":104473,"date":"2020-10-08T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T21:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=104473"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T21:12:32","slug":"start-time-of-ole-miss-alabama-football-game-changed-due-to-hurricane-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/start-time-of-ole-miss-alabama-football-game-changed-due-to-hurricane-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Time of Ole Miss-Alabama Football Game Changed Due to Hurricane Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The kickoff time for the <strong>Alabama <\/strong>at <strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> football game to be played Saturday at <strong>Vaught-Hemingway Stadium<\/strong> has been changed to 6:30 pm CT due to <strong>Hurricane Delta<\/strong>, it was announced Thursday. <br>\u00a0<br>The game was originally scheduled to start at 5 pm, and the change in kickoff was made to provide a forecast for better game conditions.<br>\u00a0<br>&#8220;This decision was made with the safety and wellbeing of our student-athletes, staff and fans as the priority,&#8221; said <strong>Keith Carter<\/strong>, Ole Miss Vice Chancellor for Intercollegiate Athletics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate the cooperation of the SEC, Alabama and ESPN in changing the start time, and we will be prepared to make any other necessary operational adjustments to ensure a safe gameday environment. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those that could be impacted by this storm.&#8221;<br>\u00a0<br>The game will be televised by <strong>ESPN<\/strong> as originally planned with <strong>Sean McDonough, Todd Blackledge, Todd McShay<\/strong>, and <strong>Molly McGrath<\/strong> on the call. It will mark the 68th all-time meeting between the <strong>Rebels <\/strong>(1-1, 1-1 SEC) and No. 2 <strong>Crimson Tide<\/strong> (2-0, 2-0 SEC) dating back to 1894.<br>\u00a0<br>Gates will open at 4:30 pm, and all ticket holders, including club and suite holders, must enter through the assigned gate on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/olemissgameday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/D101043_FB2020_gates_map_10.7.20.png\">stadium map<\/a>. The sidewalk connecting the south endzone to the west side is not accessible due to renovation, and as a result, gates 30 and 31 will not be available for entry.<br>\u00a0<br>Parking lots will open at 3:30 pm Full details on the Ole Miss football attendance plan, including guidelines on face coverings, seat locations and other safety measures, are available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.olemissgameday.com\/\">olemissgameday.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kickoff time for the Alabama at Ole Miss football game to be played Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":104474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[283,4389,3994,40,17199,2882,17203,7067,4435,700,17202,4033,15638],"class_list":["post-104473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-alabama","tag-crimson-tide","tag-espn","tag-football","tag-hurricane-delta","tag-keith-carter","tag-molly-mcgrath","tag-ole-miss","tag-ole-miss-vs-alabama","tag-rebels","tag-todd-mcshay","tag-vaught-hemingway-stadium","tag-vice-chancellor-for-intercollegiate-athletics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/game_time_change.jpg?fit=1440%2C810&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}