Utah football team among those grounded after FAA halts flights; Big 12 ‘evaluating potential changes to Saturday’s football schedule’

Something finally stopped the Utah football team on Friday — the Federal Aviation Administration. The undefeated Utes were among the teams whose flights were delayed, a university spokesman confirmed to the Deseret News, after the FAA grounded all flights nationwide Friday because of communications problems at regional air traffic control centers. No. 2 Utah is scheduled to face No. 23 Arizona in Tucson on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. MST. The FAA lifted the ground stop at around 6:25 p.m. MST, but per multiple reports, Utah will not fly out tonight, instead flying tomorrow morning ahead of the 5:30 p.m. MST kickoff. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy encouraged college football teams flying on charters to reach out to the FAA to schedule departures. “We’re going to allow for general aviation, those larger movements to take place as a priority. Smaller movements will take a lower priority.

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