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Right!  Enjoy your holidays!
I do a lot from remote so I figured out I could remote into the primary ISP modem and do a reboot after hours... which takes about 4 minutes.  Just enough time to test the failover, ha!

Yes... I have a priority of 254 on the primary and 255 on the failover.  The gateways widget shows both as online in green when it's in normal function.  I'm going to zoom over tonight and put it back over in failover mode and see what it does. 
I noticed in my Services - DHCPv4, under each of the gateways I didn't have the DNS listed there. Maybe that's why the HughesNet couldn't ping anything in failover mode.
(Everything pings great when it's up because it's using the Comcast).  Should I check the box for "Allow DNS servers to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WAN"?

How did you setup WAN2 using the System\Wizard? When I go in it looks like it just wants to configure the WAN1 only.  I don't want to follow through with it and it replace my WAN1, ha.

Ha, right... I'm confident once I get this working we'll stop having outages.  Yes, the 5.1 is the firewall and dhcp server for the LAN service 5.20 - 5.254 to the users.  Tier1 is comcast and Tier2 is Hughes within the WANComcastGroup.
I'm realizing my HughesNet isn't working because it can't get to a DNS server.  I'm trying to configure one on OPNsense router but seem to be tripping up on that.  The WAN1 autoconfigured with the Wizard so I think my problem is with the manual addition of WAN2.  Do you have any advice on that or directions?  I can't seem to use the wizard for WAN2.
((Last night I unplugged WAN1 to put it into failover... then connected my laptop directly to the LAN port and I couldn't ping and DNS servers like 8.8.8.8.  If I can fix that I think I'm good))
Thank you!

Upon further examination I'm pretty sure I'm having a problem with DNS on WAN2 HoughsNet port.  When I connect my laptop to the LAN port of the firewall I can't ping 8.8.8.8 or anything else.  When in failover mode, under the Dashboard the WAN is red and says "Ethernet autoselect".

Sorry... some of the rules were collapsed so I'll reattach and updated image.  Some aren't included but they're IP6 which we're not using.

It's pretty basic.  Just one network on a 5.1 network.  It's only 5 users and a file server.  The comcast circuit has been dropping service since moving to the office so we installed a HughesNet to catch those outages.
I just have two gateways, one for comcast and one for HughesNet.  HughesNet has one DNS of 1.1.1.1 (I monitor for failover) but the Comcast modem insists I use two DNS servers. I'm monitoring 75.75.75.75 but the modem also has 75.75.76.76.
I'll attach pics of the rules I'm using which are minimal. 

THANK YOU so much for helping me out!

Comcast is 254 and HughesNet is 255.

I have comcast as a primary (Opt1) and HughesNet into Opt2 on a ProtectLI.  I've followed the Mulit Lap directions on OPNsense https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/multiwan.html. 
I setup the DNS monitoring on comcast of 75.75.75.75 and I put the HughesNet modem on 1.1.1.1.
When I unplug Comcast, I see the OPNsense interface switch over to HughesNet but the users don't get internet.  I'm new the OPNsense so I'm sure I'm missing something but I can't figure out what. I've gone over the OPN manual a dozen times.  I'm wondering if I didn't setup my WAN2 incorrectly but can't seem to find a clear manual on that.  I can ping over to HughesNet . When I go to the HughesNet modem IP (42.1) on an end-user PC I get the OPNsense login screen.  I can also ping it from OPN.
What on earth am I missing?