{"id":393391,"date":"2026-09-08T05:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393391\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T05:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:14:15","slug":"after-delay-no-19-smu-florida-state-being-played-without-full-power-the-mighty-790-kfgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393391\/","title":{"rendered":"After delay, No. 19 SMU-Florida State being played without full power | The Mighty 790 KFGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Field Level Media<\/p>\n<p>Sep 08 (Field Level Media) \u2013 The start of Monday\u2019s Week 1 finale between No. \u200b19 SMU and Florida State \u200cwas delayed an hour and 45 minutes because of a power outage at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>With the teams \u200con \u200bthe field and the \u2060game about to \u2060begin just before 7:30 p.m., all the lights inside the stadium went out. The teams remained on the sidelines \u200bfor nearly 20 minutes while stadium personnel attempted to fix the \u2060problem, but they \u2060elected to return to the \u200blocker rooms with the lights still out \u200band insufficient natural light to begin \u200cplay.<\/p>\n<p>An hour into the delay, a message on the stadium\u2019s video board said that \u201can electrical short in the \u2060main transformer\u201d caused the power disruption and that electricians were working to restore service.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, ESPN \u2060reported that \u200cofficials determined they had \u201cenough \u2060lights\u201d working to start the \u200bgame \u200cat 9:15 p.m., after a \u200b15-minute warmup.<\/p>\n<p>That \u2060came with several caveats: The game will be played without coach-to- player communication, iPad access on the sidelines, a PA announcer or an operating scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p>(\u2013Field \u200bLevel Media)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Field Level Media Sep 08 (Field Level Media) \u2013 The start of Monday\u2019s Week 1 finale between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-393391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}