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Why Clemson is playing a football game Saturday as South Carolina, others cancel

Hurricane Florence has already caused several college football games in South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia to be canceled.

South Carolina and Marshall announced Wednesday that their game will not be played this weekend, while ACC teams North Carolina, N.C. State and Virginia Tech also had their games canceled.

The Clemson and Georgia Southern game had its start time moved up from 3:30 p.m. to noon, and the Tigers are the only FBS school in South Carolina, North Carolina or Virginia still scheduled to play Saturday.

Clemson Director of Athletics Dan Radakovich was on the Sirius XM ACC Radio show hosted by Mark Packer and Wes Durham Thursday morning and explained why the Tigers are still scheduled to play, despite other schools deciding to cancel their games.