{"id":138918,"date":"2025-09-07T07:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/138918\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:55:03","slug":"arizona-weber-state-kickoff-set-following-two-hour-weather-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/138918\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona-Weber State kickoff set following two-hour weather delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the Arizona-Weber State game at Arizona Stadium was delayed for over two hours due to nearby lightning. The game will now start around 9:10 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Less than hour from kickoff, the handful of fans and staffers at Arizona Stadium were ordered to moved to the covered concourses of Arizona Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arizona-Weber State was originally scheduled to kick off at 7 p.m. on ESPN+, but will now kick off following a 45-minute countdown, which started at 8:25 p.m. Arizona lifted its no re-entry policy for fans who exited Arizona Stadium.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is the first weather delay at Arizona Stadium since the 2009 season opener against Central Michigan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JustinESports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@JustinESports on X<\/a> for more updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Contact Justin Spears, the Star&#8217;s Arizona football beat reporter, at <a href=\"https:\/\/tucson.com\/sports\/college\/football\/wildcats\/mailto:jspears@tucson.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">jspears@tucson.com<\/a>. On X(Twitter): @JustinESports<\/p>\n<p>                    Be the first to know<\/p>\n<p class=\"email-desc\">Get local news delivered to your inbox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The start of the Arizona-Weber State game at Arizona Stadium was delayed for over two hours due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[70113,86758,86761,86760,27528,99,86759],"class_list":["post-138918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arizona-football","tag-arizona-stadium","tag-arizona-weber-state-football","tag-arizona-wildcats-football","tag-lightning","tag-sports","tag-weather-delay-arizona-weber-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}