SWAC has right to consider it a forfeitBIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The NCAA is officially recognizing the cancelled game between Grambling State and Jackson State as a no contest, an NCAA spokesperson confirmed Wednesday morning.
According to the NCAA statistics’ policies and guidelines, the Oct. 19 game will not count official in the win-loss record, although the SWAC will still deem it as a forfeit.
“When a team does not appear (e.g., due to weather conditions, accidents, breakdown of vehicles, illness or catastrophic circumstances, shortage of players), a forfeit is not recorded unless the rules of the sport provide that option,” the policy reads. “An institution shall not, for statistical purposes, declare a forfeit for nonfulfillment of a contest. Such instances shall be considered as "no contest."
Therefore, when Grambling didn’t show up, the NCAA immediately deemed it a no contest, not a forfeit.
So the news, which comes nearly two weeks after the scheduled game, shouldn’t come as a surprise because the policy has been in the NCAA’s guidelines since 1977.
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