Kenny Dillingham Drops Funny Quote on ASU's Win vs. UCF After Travel Delays From FAA Ground Stop

Arizona State head coach Kenny Dillingham says he wasn't willing to use the chaos of a nationwide ground stop as an "excuse" not to win his team's Saturday matchup against UCF.

The Sun Devils claimed a 26-13 victory over the Knights Saturday night despite arriving less than four hours before kickoff in Orlando.

"I got told something when I was a high school coach... Excuses are like buttholes. Everybody has them, and they all stink," Dillingham said after the win (h/t 247Sports' Chris Karpman).

Dillingham continued, "That's what tonight would have been. It's just an excuse.

"At the end of the day, you're going to take the field for 60 minutes and play a football game, and you're either gonna get it done or you're not. Nobody's going to care what the circumstance was."

Arizona State was originally scheduled to leave Friday afternoon from Phoenix at 2 p.m. local time before the Federal Aviation Administration grounded planes across the country.

The team then rescheduled the four-hour flight to Saturday around 6 a.m. local time, per the Arizona Republic's Michelle Gardner and Chris Coppola.

The Big 12 responded by moving Saturday's kickoff in Orlando back two hours to 5:30 p.m. ET.

This marked the latest snag in what has been so far a chaotic schedule for ASU, starting with the Sun Devils traveling to Texas A&M a week before playing Kansas in London this September.

Dillingham's team has played in eight straight weeks since an early bye, and that busy stretch featured two ranked road opponents in Texas Tech and BYU.

ASU will hope for a smoother end to the season as the Sun Devils, which improved to 6-4 with Saturday's win, close out the campaign against visiting No. 25 Oklahoma State and at No. 23 Arizona.