{"id":404869,"date":"2026-09-19T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/404869\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:46:09","slug":"florida-state-alabama-start-time-announced-after-lightning-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/404869\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State-Alabama start time announced after lightning delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it at first appeared sunny at Bryant-Denny Stadium, Saturday afternoon&#8217;s game between No. 10 Alabama and Florida State will be delayed until 5:15 PM, an hour and 45 minutes after the scheduled 3:30 PM start time. This is the second delay in as many games for the Seminoles, who were pushed back almost two hours against SMU on Labor Day due to Doak Campbell Stadium losing power.<\/p>\n<p>Just as specialists were coming onto the field, officials announced a delay. Multiple lightning strikes in the area then pushed the start time back even further.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated once more information is available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although it at first appeared sunny at Bryant-Denny Stadium, Saturday afternoon&#8217;s game between No. 10 Alabama and Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8173,2531,160973,17761,160972,28,30,29,1320,121347],"class_list":["post-404869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alabama","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-bryant-denny-stadium","tag-doak-campbell-stadium","tag-eastern-illinois-panthers","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-state","tag-tuscaloosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404869","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=404869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}