{"id":873983,"date":"2026-10-07T13:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873983\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:50:22","slug":"georgia-vs-alabama-reportedly-in-danger-due-to-extreme-weather-latest-forecast-for-cfb-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873983\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia vs. Alabama Reportedly in Danger Due to ‘Extreme Weather,’ Latest Forecast for CFB Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biggest game of the Week 6 college football slate is No. 2 Georgia visiting No. 6 Alabama in Tuscaloosa, but a potential hurricane making landfall could force the game to get moved, per iconic ABC 33\/40 chief meteorologist James Spann in remarks to Michael Casagrande<\/a> of AL.com.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got potential for a hurricane making landfall in Mobile Bay,” Spann told AL.com. “The Alabama-Georgia game, a presidential visit, College GameDay. You got the big (Zach Bryan) concert at Auburn. This is the National Shrimp Festival at Gulf Shores this weekend, which is huge. I mean, you could not \u2026 it’s gonna be a nightmare.”<\/p>\n

Spann added: “The idea of moving the game, it’s on the table. I’m saying it’s clearly on the table. It would be a nightmare for everybody involved. But if we do get a Category 1, Category 2 hurricane coming right up Mobile Bay Saturday morning, I don’t know if you wouldn’t be playing that game in Tuscaloosa that you’ve got the chance of winds gusting to 50 miles an hour, torrential rain and the chance of isolated tornadoes on top of everything else.”<\/p>\n

The latest Weather Channel forecast<\/a> for Tuscaloosa on Saturday evening calls for a 90 percent chance of rain, noting a “potential for heavy rainfall” and “winds SE at 10 to 20 mph.” The current call is for “rainfall around a quarter of an inch.”<\/p>\n

That wouldn’t stop the game on its own, but there’s a clear chance here that the forecast could get much worse, based on Spann’s report.<\/p>\n

We are still four days from game time, though, and Spann noted there isn’t enough information at this time to make a call on the game.<\/p>\n

“There’s not enough confidence in a forecast to make any decision right now,” Spann told Casagrande. “We’ll have the data tomorrow. Hurricane Center will initiate advisories on it this afternoon. And (Wednesday) you’ve got the information you need to make a decision. So, we’re probably about 24 hours away (at 1 p.m. Tuesday) if they decide to move the game and hopefully they won’t.”<\/p>\n

The key, ultimately, is the storm’s direction from the south.<\/p>\n

“Aside from slowing down or changing directions wildly, Spann said the best case would be the storm moving east so the dry side would hit most of Alabama,” Casagrande noted.<\/p>\n

Spann said that if the storms arrives through West Alabama or Mississippi, then “it’s gonna be rough. I mean, real rough.”<\/p>\n

Per Weather Channel<\/a>, if winds reach at least 39 mph, then the storm will be called Tropical Storm Isaias.<\/p>\n

“Tropical Depression Nine has formed in the western Gulf and is likely to become Hurricane Isaias before it brings heavy rain and gusty winds to the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida,” the Weather Channel noted.<\/p>\n

“Isaias is expected to become the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season.”<\/p>\n

It’s ultimately wait-and-see right now as far as Isaias’ impact and path goes. As for the game, the SEC has an eye on the weather.<\/p>\n

“Like we do every week at this time, we’re keeping an eye on forecasts and staying in communication with schools with games that could be impacted by weather,” a SEC spokesperson told John Talty<\/a> of CBS Sports.<\/p>\n

The two teams don’t have a common bye week the rest of the season, so it’s not clear when a makeup game would occur or how the SEC would reschedule the matchup. At this time, though, the game remains on for Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest game of the Week 6 college football slate is No. 2 Georgia visiting No. 6 Alabama…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-873983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}