{"id":2443,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/2443","headline":"FAA ground stop scrambles college football travel plans","dek":"The agency halted all US flights Friday citing a communications outage, leaving several Saturday road teams stuck waiting to fly.","body":"The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights across the country Friday \"until further notice,\" citing a temporary communications outage and unspecified safety concerns. The order landed at 3:54 p.m. ET and was initially set to last until 11:30 p.m., right in the middle of a full slate of college football travel.\n\nThe timing could not have been worse for teams flying to Saturday road games. The Big Ten confirmed Minnesota, Purdue, and Washington were affected, with Michigan set to play at Penn State, Purdue at Iowa, and Washington at Michigan State. The ACC said all its football teams had already reached their game sites before the stoppage hit.\n\nNot everyone got clear. Arizona State's flight to Orlando for its game against UCF was delayed, as was Florida Atlantic's trip to Tulsa for its game in Oklahoma. Duke, however, beat the shutdown entirely, boarding its plane to Miami before the ground stop took effect, keeping its noon kickoff against the Hurricanes on schedule.\n\nWith no firm timeline for flights resuming at the time, programs across the country were left scrambling for alternate travel plans to make sure Week 11 kicks off on time.","published_at":"2026-11-13T23:34:29.699473+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Front Office Sports","publisher":"Front Office Sports","title":"College Football Teams Caught Up in Nationwide Flight Stoppage","url":"https://frontofficesports.com/article/college-football-teams-caught-up-in-nationwide-flight-stoppage/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Will Miami Hurricanes game vs Duke be affected by FAA ground stop?","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/miami-hurricanes-game-vs-duke-225426534.html"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"FAA flight stoppage leaves college football teams scrambling to find alternate travel plans","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/faa-ground-stoppage-college-football-teams-travel-plans/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"FAA ground stoppage live updates: College football programs affected by flight suspension","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/faa-ground-flight-stoppage-affects-222542289.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Tennessee football impacted by nationwide ground stop","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tennessee-football-impacted-nationwide-ground-224657702.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Some college football teams are in flight limbo after FAA issues nationwide ground stop. 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