{"id":206772,"date":"2025-10-12T02:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206772\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T02:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:02:10","slug":"utah-footballs-big-12-clash-with-arizona-state-to-start-at-825-p-m-after-slight-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206772\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah football&#8217;s Big 12 clash with Arizona State to start at 8:25 p.m. after slight delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: We are set for an 8:25 p.m. kickoff at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Utah&#8217;s specialists are on the field, while Arizona State is going through its full complement of warmups.<\/p>\n<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Everyone is going to have to wait a little while longer for a critical Big 12 showdown between the University of Utah and No. 21 Arizona State.<\/p>\n<p>With thunderstorms rolling through the Wasatch Front Saturday evening ahead of the 8:20 p.m. kickoff, pregame festivities have been delayed, per the Utah athletic department.<\/p>\n<p>Warmups were due to begin at 7:20 p.m., but with the weather, they will not start until at least 7:50 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no definitive word on the status of kickoff, but it will likely get backed up given the pregame delay.<\/p>\n<p>Per NCAA rules, play must be suspended when lighting is detected within an eight-mile radius of a playing venue.<\/p>\n<p>Play cannot resume until 30 minutes have passed since the last lightning strike detected within the eight-mile radius.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are still in a weather delay with regard to pregame activities. A status update is expected by 7:50PM MT.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Utah Athletics (@utahathletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/utahathletics\/status\/1977180656179593423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 12, 2025<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: We are set for an 8:25 p.m. kickoff at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Utah&#8217;s specialists are on the field,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,843,1193,596,1194,180,322,44,1195,1196,85,434,1191,1197,1192],"class_list":["post-206772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-football","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}