FAA ground stop disrupting travel for college football teams - ESPN

The travel plans for multiple Power 4 conference football teams have been disrupted by the Federal Aviation Administration's nationwide ground stop of all flights Friday because of communications problems at regional air traffic control centers.

Four Big 12 teams (Baylor, Kansas State, Utah and Arizona State), three teams from the SEC (Ole Miss, Tennessee and Texas) and two from the Big Ten (Minnesota and Washington) were still waiting to leave Friday for the sites of this weekend's games.

Arizona State has deplaned, will head home to rest and is planning to fly to Orlando, Florida, on Saturday morning to play UCF in a game scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET, sources told ESPN.

Scenes from the FAA stoppage: Colorado State is holding a walk-through at Northern Colorado Regional Airport as the team waits to fly to Pullman to play at Washington State on Saturday night. https://t.co/JiKvb9FAJ5

The ACC told ESPN that all of its visiting teams had reached destinations of Saturday's games before the FAA issued the ground stop of all flights.

ESPN has also confirmed that Oregon State, which is scheduled to play at No. 24 Boise State on Saturday (6 p.m. ET), still hasn't left for Idaho. Other teams from the Group of 6 conferences that are grounded include Wyoming (at UTEP) and Colorado State, whose players were shown holding a walk-through at Northern Colorado Regional Airport as they waited to depart to play Washington State.

The travel delays might affect several of Saturday's top games, including No. 8 Tennessee at Texas A&M (3 p.m. ET), No. 6 Texas at No. 21 LSU (7:30 p.m. ET), and No. 2 Utah at No. 23 Arizona (7:30 p.m. ET).

The Big 12 issued a statement that it was «evaluating potential changes to Saturday's football schedule» as