Virus postpones three more games

The Houston Cougars are again without an opponent and still waiting to play their season opener as COVID-19 issues wiped out three more major college football games Wednesday.

The latest team forced to bail on Houston was North Texas, which said it would not be able to field a team for Saturday’s road game after four positive tests this week. The school didn’t specify an affected position group or how many additional people needed to self-isolate because of contact tracing.

Tulsa’s scheduled game at Arkansas State this week was also postponed. Arkansas State said only that it was unable to assemble a two-deep depth chart at an unspecified position.

South Florida, which lost to Notre Dame last Saturday, postponed its game against Florida Atlantic this week.

Earlier in the day, the Atlantic Coast Conference rescheduled Notre Dame’s game at Wake Forest for Dec. 12. The seventh-ranked Fighting Irish could not play Saturday in Winston-Salem, N.C., because of 13 players in isolation with COVID-19 and 10 more in quarantine because of contact tracing.

Former Georgia defensive back Otis Reese said he left the school because of racist treatment on campus and contended that coach Kirby Smart manipulated him to continue playing for the Bulldogs last season after he expressed his intention to transfer.

Reese transferred to Mississippi in January after two seasons at Georgia and was awaiting a ruling from the NCAA and Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey on his request for a waiver to play immediately.

Georgia denied the allegations and said it would share its full response to Reese’s waiver application if he is granted permission.