Major news broke on Friday night that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered a nationwide ground stop “due to extraordinary circumstances.”
While ABC News reports that there’s no reason to suspect anything “nefarious” at this time, this is obviously a huge deal with wide-ranging impact to the entire country. In situations like this, sports take a back seat.
But as we do prepare for Week 11 in the college football world, there are numerous road teams that have been impacted by this situation. Per ESPN’s Pete Thamel, there are 3 SEC teams that haven’t been able to take off for their road games.
Thamel listed out the numerous teams stuck in flight limbo below, including Ole Miss, Tennessee and Texas.
Texas is traveling to Baton Rouge to play LSU, so we’ll see if a decision is made to travel from Austin to Louisiana by ground. Tennessee has to head to College Station and Ole Miss is set to play in Norman, so those are both trickier travel situations.
Again, when something is impacting national security, college football is rightfully an afterthought, but we will have to monitor this situation to see what changes end up being made to the Week 11 schedule.
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