UCLA

The UCLA football team was planning Wednesday night to fly to Miami today as originally scheduled, even as South Florida braced for the impact of Hurricane Georges, and the possibility loomed that Saturday’s game against the University of Miami will be postponed for 24 hours, or longer.

The Bruins were keeping their contingency plans in place for switching to an alternate site--and for a longer-than-expected stay in Florida. Officials for both schools have been considering the option of delaying the game a day, until Sunday, but were still hoping for kickoff as scheduled.

That, of course, might change by late tonight, when Georges could make land, perhaps with devastating results. Even if the Bruins ride out the storm at their airport-area hotel, a few miles inland, and even if the Orange Bowl comes through without major problems, a disaster of the magnitude some forecasters predict makes it hard to imagine city officials releasing the support people necessary.

What would happen with the scheduling from there remains uncertain. The Bruins are prepared to stay until Sunday, but no longer because they need to fly back across the country and prepare for Washington State the next weekend. They don’t have a bye week, so a postponement of more than a day means either the game will not be played or it possibly will be played Dec. 5, one week after Miami is scheduled to close against Syracuse and two weeks after UCLA plays USC in its finale.

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Next Up for UCLA

Who: Miami

Where: at Miami

When: Saturday, 9 a.m.

TV: Channel 2

Radio: AM 1150