Both LSU and Arkansas are still expecting their Saturday morning matchup to take place as scheduled, but Razorbacks coach Sam Pittman told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Thursday that his team is “running thin” on available players.
“I think everybody’s looking for an answer and I’ll give you the answer: We’re going to play Saturday, as of right now,” Pittman told the newspaper. “We’re going to play. We have a test that we took today that gets back (Friday). We want to play the game.
“But you have to have adequate numbers to play the game, and we are thin. If we have a good test (Friday) then, by golly, we’re going to play the game. We want to play the game.”
The SEC requires teams to have at least 53 scholarship players available on game day. Pittman said, on Wednesday’s SEC Coaches Teleconference, that his team had an “adequate number of people to play.”
The 11 a.m. matchup will be the first game LSU’s played in almost three weeks as COVID-19 cases and quarantining due to contact tracing left LSU without enough players to host Alabama this past Saturday.