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Hurricane Ike postpones Arkansas-Texas

Storm on course to hit Texas this weekend; game will be played Sept. 27

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  Ike forces cancellations, reschedulings
Several sporting events were rescheduled as Hurricane Ike approached the Texas coast. Some of the affected games (All times ET):

NFL
—Houston Texans vs. Baltimore Ravens: game scheduled for 3:15 p.m. Sunday has been moved to Monday night at 7:30 p.m.
Major League Baseball
—Houston Astros vs. Chicago Cubs: First two games of weekend series postponed. No makeup dates set.
College Football
—Arkansas vs. No. 8 Texas: postponed until Sept. 27.
—Washington State vs. Baylor: moved from Saturday to Friday at 7:30 p.m.
—Stanford vs. TCU: kickoff Saturday moved from 6 p.m. to noon.
—Air Force vs. Houston: moved from Houston to Dallas, at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
—Sam Houston State vs. Prairie View A&M: Saturday’s game canceled.
—Texas A&M-Kingsville vs. Central Oklahoma: moved to 2 p.m. Saturday in Edmond, Okla.
—Mary Hardin-Baylor vs. Southern Nazarene: moved to Friday night at 6 p.m.
—Abilene Christian vs. Texas A&M-Commerce: changed to 2 p.m. Saturday.
—Hardin-Simmons vs. Linfield: moved from 6 p.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
—Kentucky Wesleyan vs. Stephen F. Austin: Saturday’s game postponed. No new date set.
Other sports
—The Howard Payne tennis scheduled for Saturday against Southwestern University has been cancelled.
—The Texas A&M Invitational cross country meet in College Station has been postponed until next Friday.
—The WNBA game in Houston on Friday between the Comets and Sacramento Monarchs: postponed. It will most likely be rescheduled for Monday, depending on the severity of the storm.
—Cross country meet at Texas A&M: postponed until Sept. 19.
—West Texas A&M men’s soccer game vs. St. Mary’s University: Wednesday’s game has been postponed.
—The Abilene Christian vs. St. Mary’s women’s soccer game canceled.
—Stephen F. Austin University, Texas Southern University and Houston Baptist University: canceled or postponed all weekend athletic activities.

updated 9:56 p.m. ET Sept. 10, 2008

BATON ROUGE, La. - Hurricane Ike has pushed back the Arkansas-Texas football game to Sept. 27.

The hurricane is on a course for landfall in Texas this weekend.

Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds said the university believes the best thing to do is postpone the game, which had been set for Saturday in Austin.

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In other hurricane news, LSU has scheduled its return to Tiger Stadium on Saturday night to host North Texas, one week after postponing its game with Troy because of Hurricane Gustav.

LSU officials say they are confident that Tiger Stadium will ready by the weekend, but wanted to make sure the area would not be threatened by Hurricane Ike.

Hurricane Gustav had caused damage to the campus in Baton Rouge, forcing the postponement against Troy.

The Washington State-Baylor game has been moved up to Friday night.

The game was originally scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Kickoff is now scheduled for 7:30 p.m. CT Friday.

The start of the Stanford-TCU game Saturday will be moved to noon from 6 p.m.

McNeese State canceled Saturday’s home football game against Cal Poly.

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