SEC takes strong stance against storming the field National News

TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati said on social media following the Oklahoma win the school “fell short of meeting the conference’s sportsmanship standards post-game. We must always be respectful to the opposing team when celebrating in these moments.”

The Atlantic Coast Conference has no policy on field storming, spokesman Kevin Best said in an email to The AP. In fact, Clemson has a post-game routine, “Gathering at the Paw,” where fans enter the field after all Death Valley games .

The Pac 12’s policy for storming the field or court is a $25,000 fine for the first offense, rising to $50,000 and $100,000 for subsequent violations. The Big Ten Conference did not respond to calls or messages, though it had no policy as of 2019.In the end, how safe you feel depends on whether you won or where you play, South Carolina tight end Austin Stogner said.

The Oklahoma transfer had fans on the field twice last season The first was the Sooners’ comeback victory over Texas in the Red River Rivalry. “That’s when we won so that was kind of cool. I knew all those guys” who did it then, he said.

The other was at Baylor, which defeated Oklahoma 27-14 to end the Sooners’ best-in-the-nation 17-game win streak. “No one was going to hit me,” Stogner said. “I mean, it’s Baylor. ”

AP Sports Writers John Zenor in Birmingham, Alabama; Stephen Hawkins in Fort Worth, Texas; Charles Odum in Atlanta; Teresa Walker in Nashville; Brett Martel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Mark Long in Gainesville, Florida, contributed to this report.