Aggies Suspend Gator Bowl Practices Amid COVID-19 Breakout

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The Texas A&M football team's practices for the Gator Bowl on Dec. 31 were stopped on Saturday due to an outbreak of COVID-19, sources have told TexAgs.com.

"Texas A&M football operations have been shut down due to several positive COVID tests within the program," the publication states.

The Aggies (8-4, 4-4 SEC), who were ranked No. 25 in the most recent College Football Playoff poll, have missed three days of practice so far.

Texas A&M is scheduled to play No. 17 Wake Forest (10-3, 7-1 ACC) in the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, at 10 a.m. central time on New Year's Eve on ESPN.

Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher just completed the early signing date portion of the 2021-22 recruiting cycle with the No. 1 class in Rivals.com and 247 Sports.

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Guilbeau joined OutKick as an SEC columnist in September of 2021 after covering LSU and the Saints for 17 years at USA TODAY Louisiana. He has been a national columnist/feature writer since the summer of 2022, covering college football, basketball and baseball with some NFL, NBA, MLB, TV and Movies and general assignment, including hot dog taste tests. A New Orleans native and Mizzou graduate, he has consistently won Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) awards since covering Alabama and Auburn at the Mobile Press-Register (1993-98) and LSU and the Saints at the Baton Rouge Advocate (1998-2004). In 2021, Guilbeau won an FWAA 1st for a game feature, placed in APSE Beat Writing, Breaking News and Explanatory, and won Beat Writer of the Year from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association (LSWA). He won an FWAA columnist 1st in 2017 and was FWAA's top overall winner in 2016 with 1st in game story, 2nd in columns, and features honorable mention. Guilbeau completed a book in 2022 about LSU's five-time national champion coach - "Everything Matters In Baseball: The Skip Bertman Story" - that is available at www.acadianhouse.com, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble outlets. He lives in Baton Rouge with his wife, the former Michelle Millhollon of Thibodaux who previously covered politics for the Baton Rouge Advocate and is a communications director.