Tennessee remains grounded amid FAA ground stop while Auburn will bus to Mississippi State game, per report
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Tennessee’s plans in getting to College Station for its Week 11 matchup against Texas A&M have hit the same snag that many other teams now face in traveling the day before to their road games that were scheduled to take place on Saturday.
In the Volunteers’ case, they were scheduled for a 3 p.m. ET kickoff against the Aggies at Kyle Field, but right now in the aftermath of the Federal Aviation Administration-ordered ground stop “due to extraordinary circumstances,” Tennessee isn’t going anywhere right now.
According to a report on Friday night by On3 insider Pete Nakos, “Tennessee remains grounded and will return to the football facility. Not plans to bus to College Station at this time.”
Tennessee was one of three SEC teams, along with Ole Miss and Texas, who were stuck in limbo in trying to get to their SEC road destinations for Saturday games.
The SEC obviously wasn’t the only conference with teams stuck in flight limbo with the FAA-issued ground stop.
On3 posted this “Flight Tracker” for college football teams across the country who were either “grounded,” “landed,” “in the air,” or “switched to bus.”
One of those “switched to bus” teams was another SEC team in Auburn, which according to the On3 graphic has decided to bus to Starkville for Saturday’s noon ET kickoff against Mississippi State.
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.
