Dozens of college football teams scrambled to reach Saturday's games after an extremely rare nationwide FAA ground stop stranded them at home airports and on runways Friday.
The Federal Aviation Administration halted all flights Friday afternoon after air traffic control facilities suffered communication and radar instability, grounding thousands of aircraft before lifting the stop just after 8:30 p.m.
Auburn, Purdue, Tulane and North Texas ditched their planes for buses, while Arizona State's game at UCF was pushed back two hours, Arizona vs. No. 2 Utah slid to an 8:30 p.m. start after the Utes' pilots hit their duty-time limit, Baylor-BYU moved to 5 p.m., and Ole Miss vs. Oklahoma remained undecided through Saturday morning.
No. 8 Texas and Tennessee endured hours of delays, including a late-night plane swap for the Longhorns, but both arrived in time to keep their kickoff slots intact.