Ole Miss-Oklahoma game could get pushed to Sunday amid FAA ground stop, per report
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Ole Miss was supposed to travel on Friday for its Week 11 game on Saturday at Oklahoma, with the SEC rivals set to do battle in a 4:15 p.m. ET kickoff.
But the normal world everybody lives in regarding travel plans, plane flights and college football games took a backseat on Friday night when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a nationwide ground stop “due to extraordinary circumstances.”
There were 3 SEC teams seriously affected by the ground stop, with Texas and Tennessee also grounded in their attempts to try to get to their Week 11 destinations for Saturday’s games.
In the Rebels’ case, getting to Norman has become a big problem now, and those issues could even cause Saturday’s game to be pushed back to Sunday. According to a report on Friday night by Chase Parham, who covers the Rebels for 247Sports/CBS Sports, “Ole Miss players (were) told to go home and report back at 7 p.m.”
Parham also reported that the “scuttlebutt is the Rebels will fly out (Friday night) or (the) game could get pushed to Sunday.”
Right now, the best laid plans have been thrown out the window for Ole Miss and other teams in the SEC and around the country, as the innocence of the college football world for Week 11 was impacted by the real-world FAA ground stop that is, of course, of the most concern right now.
The situations will all of these road teams trying to get to their Saturday games are fluid, as college football tries to adjust to the ground stop.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
