The Miami Hurricanes’ regular-season finale against Georgia Tech on Dec. 19 is canceled, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced on Friday night.
“Georgia Tech informed the conference office that it will not be able to meet several of the ACC Medical Advisory Group’s COVID-19 game discontinuation considerations,” the ACC’s release said.
The cancellation means Saturday’s 3:30 p.m. kickoff between No. 10 Miami and No. 17 North Carolina will be UM’s final game of the regular season.
At stake for the Hurricanes (8-1, 7-1) is the possibility of reaching a New Year’s Six bowl game with a win, possibly the Orange Bowl.
UM already had plans of honoring its seniors with Senior Day-type ceremonies on Saturday.
The Dec. 19 date was already from one postponement to this annual ACC Coastal Division matchup. It was originally scheduled for Nov. 21 before Miami had a coronavirus outbreak on the team, causing it to go into a two-weekend pause to its schedule.
Although the ACC went without divisions for the revised 2020 schedule, the two schools were still originally scheduled. The cancellation means this is the first season the two teams don’t face one another since UM first joined the ACC in 2004.
