The No. 2 Utah Utes hit a massive unexpected travel roadblock right before one of the biggest rivalry games of their season. On Friday night, head coach Morgan Scalley and his team were all packed up and ready to fly from Salt Lake City down to Tucson, Arizona, for their huge Big 12 showdown against the Arizona Wildcats!
However, as national college football writer David Ubben reported on X, Utah’s charter flight got completely shut down at the last minute, leaving the entire program stranded in Utah overnight when they were supposed to be settling into their hotel rooms.
The root of the whole travel nightmare was a rare, four-hour nationwide ground stop issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday afternoon. Air Route Traffic Control Centers across the country experienced serious communication glitches, forcing aviation officials to freeze takeoffs nationwide for safety reasons…