Tennessee athletic director and former Volunteers football coach Phillip Fulmer said Friday he is in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19. And Miami (Fla.) coach Manny Diaz became the latest active coach to announce he has contracted the virus.
Fulmer, 70, wrote on Twitter that he is "feeling fine." The College Football Hall of Famer was deemed not to have been in close contact with any Vols athletes or "sport-specific staff members." Tennessee plays at No. 23 Auburn on Saturday.
Diaz made a similar social media post to announce he tested positive and is isolating. Diaz, 46, said he will work virtually with the No. 12 Hurricanes until he can return to the field.
Miami is not scheduled to play again until Dec. 5 at Wake Forest. The Hurricanes this week were forced to postpone games scheduled for Saturday and Nov. 28 because of coronavirus issues.
Diaz was the second coach from a Power Five school to publicly acknowledge testing positive this week, along with Maryland's Mike Locksley. Locksley's team, like Diaz's, had its Saturday game called off because of COVID issues within the program.
• As of Friday evening, 17 of the 62 games across major college football had been postponed or canceled. That's the most disrupted games in any week of this season, one more than last week.
The latest addition was Washington State's game at Stanford, which got canceled before the Cougars left for the Bay Area. The Cougars fell below the Pac-12 minimum of 53 scholarship players available due to positive coronavirus cases and contact tracing.
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