Utah football team among those grounded after FAA halts flights

A Delta plane departs from a hangar at the Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City on Thursday, March 11, 2021. Nancy Volmer, the airport’s director of communication and marketing, reported  international, nonstop travel is set to reopen this summer. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News

Someone finally stopped the Utah football team on Friday — the Federal Aviation Administration.

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The undefeated Utes are among the teams whose flights have been delayed, a university spokesman confirmed to the Deseret News after the FAA grounded all flights nationwide Friday because of communications problems at regional air traffic control centers.

No. 2 Utah is scheduled to face No. 23 Arizona in Tucson on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. MST. The game is scheduled to be televised on Fox.

The Utes stayed unbeaten after beating then-No. 9 BYU 28-20 last weekend.

Utah leads the Big 12 Conference standings with a 6-0 league record and is 9-0 overall. Following the win over the Cougars, Utah jumped to No. 2 in the College Football Playoff rankings and the Associated Press Top 25.

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