During the telecast for the Tennessee-Texas A&M game, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey joined Gary Danielson and Verne Lundquist to talk about what went into the decision to postpone the Florida-LSU game this weekend. Hurricane Matthew forced the game to be postponed, but there is currently no date for a makeup game. He also said that the conference is working to make up the game.
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Sankey then went on to say explicitly that the game needs to be played and even described the ongoing debate as a point of tension in the SEC family and sometimes you just have to work through these things.
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The game absolutely needs to get done because if the Vols were to lose a game and the Gators win out, that game could decide who represents the East in the SEC Championship game.