Despite some airline chaos around the country, the Nebraska football team won’t be affected by a nationwide ground stop, as the Huskers were already in the air before FAA issues left many teams stuck waiting to see if they could get to their Saturday games.
Whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing that Nebraska’s game versus Rutgers will be played on Saturday is another question altogether, considering how the second half of the season has gone so far. At the very least, Husker fans will get to see if new offensive coordinator Glenn Thomas can fix what ails the offense.
Nebraska took off for New Jersey before the ground stop went into effect, and the official social media account confirmed the team landed safely. However, it’s not clear whether the game, scheduled for 11:30 a.m. on the Big Ten Network, will still kick off at that time.
On3 recently reported that networks and conferences are still working out scheduling plans, with many programs wondering whether they will need to drive to away games or postpone them until later in the season.
While a game between Nebraska and Rutgers is hardly a heavyweight fight, Fox might need to find filler games to fill gaps in its schedule and could pull one from the Big Ten Network. Likewise, BTN might decide it would be better to air the game later in the day rather than at 11:30 a.m. if another contest doesn’t go as expected.
Nebraska-Rutgers joins notable teams in the air or landed and game is definitely on
- Boston College (at Notre Dame)
- Cincinnati (at Iowa State)
- Duke (at Miami)
- JMU (at UConn)
- Kansas (at WVU)
- Louisville (at UNC)
- Michigan (at Oregon) … flew Thursday
- Missouri (at Georgia)
- Nebraska (at Rutgers)
- Stanford (at Virginia Tech) … flew Thursday
- Syracuse (at NC State)
- Texas Tech (at Oklahoma State)
- UAB (at Temple)
- Wisconsin (at Maryland)
- Alabama is driving to Vanderbilt
- East Carolina is driving to Charlotte
- Georgia Tech is driving to Clemson
Teams with flights caught in FAA ground stop
- Arizona State (at UCF)
- Baylor (to BYU)
- FAU (to Tulsa)
- Kansas State (to TCU)
- Minnesota (to Penn State)
- Ole Miss (to Oklahoma)
- Purdue (to Iowa)
- Tennessee (to Texas A&M)
- Texas (to LSU)
- Tulane (to Rice)
- UNLV (to New Mexico)
- Utah (at Arizona)
- Washington (to Michigan State)
For now, Nebraska and Rutgers will still kick off on Saturday morning. We'll update this post should something change between now and game time.
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