I don't get it. Over a hundred players and coaches fly all the way from Idaho to Florida only to bspend three hours waiting for a thunderstorm to end. Why didn't the game get moved up to 3:30 when a thunderstorm was forcasted for sometime around 7:00 p.m.? The NFL has moved games before kickoff because of bad weather and fields. Meteorologists are able to forecast not only days but time ranges lightning is expected, so they could have been prepared for this. Instead the NCAA makes them wait for the thunderstorm to end only to figure out by the time it does, everyone needs to go home. That is not fair to anybody at the stadium except the concession sellers.

 

Another option would have been to simply reschedule it for October 25, when both teams have a bye, so Idaho players would not have to waste time flying cross country. But the weather was fine earlier, so just moving the kickoff time would have been good enough to avoid the storm if anyone knew it would start shortly after 7:00.

 

What is the NCAA rule that forced thousands of people to wait three hours for a play that never happened?

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