By The FAA has lifted a nationwide ground stop that left the Texas Longhorns football team stranded in Austin. Texas has boarded a charter jet to Baton Rouge to take on LSU when they were ordered off the plane. The Horns are now scheduled to take a 10 p.m. CT flight out of Austin, arriving in Louisiana late.
After de-boarding the plane, the team went back to campus and went through a walk-through and ate a meal while it waited for more information.
Texas charter to Baton Rouge expected to depart Austin at 10 pm CT https://t.co/KkrwmOU42w
— Chip Brown (@ChipBrown247) November 14, 2026
As team official waited for some kind of word from the FAA, several options were being discuss if Texas couldn't fly out on Friday night. One was bussing the team to Baton Rouge. But Texas officials where reportedly "vehemently opposed" to chartering buses and making the eight-hour drive because that would put the Longhorns at a competitive disadvantage in terms of disrupting the team's normal pre-game preparations for an away game.
Another option was pushing the game back to Sunday or even Monday. But once the FAA lifted the ban, the team focused its attention on flying out Friday night.
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