College football Sunday will take place for Ole Miss football. The Rebels' SEC showdown with Oklahoma got impacted by the national ground stoppage from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Now Ole Miss released a Saturday statement on the stunning move to NFL Sunday. Which got released online on Saturday as the rest of the CFB action took place.

The release revealed that the Rebels' charter plane, JetBlue, was unable to fly them out to Norman on Friday. Ole Miss even looked into a charter bus option, despite that option taking an extra eight hours on the road.

Furthermore, Ole Miss claims that unlike the rest of the SEC teams that traveled, the Rebels became more limited with their resources. Ole Miss ultimately flew out once the stoppage got lifted, but the only available flight time was set for Saturday afternoon.

“The ground stoppage has been an unfortunate ordeal for all of us. And we are grateful that a solution was made to play our game,” the release added.

So the SEC will share the spotlight with the NFL thanks to Ole Miss and Oklahoma. All due to the sudden FAA stoppage that altered itinerary schedules for college football teams. Fridays before games are often the designated travel date for teams regardless of conference.

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SEC commissioner Greg Sankey helped approve of the move to Sunday. However, former OU coach Bob Stoops eviscerated Sankey over the scheduling while calling out Ole Miss too, plus pointing out how Big 12 representative Arizona State still flew to Florida to face UCF.

Regardless, most CFB games became bumped due to the brief FAA stoppage.