The SEC has made a decision on LSU’s postponed game against Florida.

The Tigers will play the Gators this season, but the result wasn’t what LSU fans expected.

On Thursday, the SEC announced LSU would be playing Florida on Nov. 19, but the game will be moved to Baton Rouge instead of Gainesville. This keeps LSU from playing three straight road games in 12 days. In return, LSU will travel to Gainesville for games in both 2017 and 2018.

“It was important for us to come to a resolution. Each university had its own set of concerns throughout this process, however existing SEC regulations did not provide an avenue to resolve conflicting issues in a more timely manner,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said in a release. “As I have repeatedly said, this game needed to be played. In the end, I want to give credit to the University of Florida for making concessions to move this year’s game to Baton Rouge.”

Earlier this week, LSU Athletics Director Joe Alleva stressed that he didn’t want to give up a home game (most notably the Nov. 19 date against South Alabama) to make it happen.

With the SEC’s decision, LSU will now buy out the home contest against South Alabama and replace it with the game against the Gators.

One big talking point for both teams to play the game was that the SEC bylaws stated that each football team play all eight conference games in a season in order to be eligible to compete for a divisional title and play in the SEC Championship Game. Had the game not been rescheduled, Florida and LSU would have been ineligible to compete for the SEC title this season.

LSU is sitting at 3-2 on the season and 2-1 in SEC play. Since Ed Orgeron took over as head coach, the Tigers are sitting at 1-0 with a 42-7 win over Missouri.

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