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The Power Four => Big Ten => Topic started by: CatsbyAZ on June 13, 2026, 10:56:34 AM
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Planning for the following:
Aug 29: Memphis @ UNLV – Supposed to be working in Vegas that week; will maybe check out UNLV football in the new Raiders stadium, which by now isn’t that new
Sept 19: Florida @ Auburn – Another Auburn trip, both teams with new coaches
Oct 10: Hawaii @ Arizona St – Weather will be cooling off across Phoenix; OOC opponent Hawaii pushed to later in season after a ASU’s London game Vs Kansas in September reshuffled schedule
Oct 24: Iowa State @ Arizona – Arizona’s homecoming game; ISU should offer an "easier" opponent given how down they’re expected to be
Nov 13: Illinois @ UCLA – Friday night game; would be first time seeing Illinois in person
On top of all that, might do the Territorial Cup if in Tucson for Thanksgiving weekend, and hoping to go to another dumpy Bowl Game, maybe in the Phoenix area.
For the Auburn trip, there's a Waffle House I always stop for in La Grange Georgia on my drive from Atlanta into Alabama. It's definitely the South in there with the cooks with DIY prison tattoos down their forearms & cigarettes behind their ears like pencils, and the lilting drawl of smiley waitresses idling together at the coffeemaker.
On the wall above the toasters is a picture commemorating the former franchise owner who ran the place for three decades until her recent death. I was able to meet her back around 2018 when her husband started recognizing me - yes, he couldn't tell you the news outside of sports but could recognize customers at yearlong intervals.
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I’m a little irritated. Last year, a bunch of regional games set up really nicely for trips. The schedule doesn’t look as favorable this year. So we shall see.
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Not sure if we will do any games this year. Miami has a decent home schedule. Florida's is OK.
UF/UGA in Atlanta could be fun.
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I'll be at this one with my brother
I have tickets and passes to the Champion's Club w/food & drink
We're staying downtown at the Cornhusker Marriott Friday & Saturday night
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Not sure if we will do any games this year. Miami has a decent home schedule. Florida's is OK.
UF/UGA in Atlanta could be fun.
it should stay in Atlanta permanently. Atlanta is a MUCH nicer place to visit than Jacksonville lol.
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Schedule is shaping up.
9/12 - Ohio State at Texas
10/10 - Texas-OU at the Cotton Bowl
11/14 - Tennessee at Texas A&M
11/27 - Texas at Texas A&M
I might squeak one more game in Aggieland onto the schedule. Not because I'm missing my daughter, no that's not it at all... :)
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11/14 - Tennessee at Texas A&M
That actually sounds fun, not sure why. But if I felt like putting myself through a gameday again, that'd be a neat candidate.
Only ever went to one game in CS, and that was in 2004.
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Big games in College Station are a lot of fun, as long as you're not wearing burnt orange. We chose that one because one of my i s c & a aggie wife's aggie besties will be coming into town for it. They live somewhere way out east, like Naconowhere or something.
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The University of Iowa College of Law offered me free lunch and a free parking pass today for the Iowa State game. There are very few parking spots in the law school lot. I went to undergrad at Iowa, but graduated from law school at FSU. I advertised a law clerk position today, and in response, received this offer.
The game tickets are $200+. I'd like to go; the parking is worth $35-$40. Lunch is probably worth $10-$15. The convenience of not toting a cooler around, probably $10. But the aftermarket game tickets seem outrageous, and I am still upset Iowa ever started this series as an annual series adding credibility to Iowa State as a major football program (which they weren't), and deleted Notre Dame as Iowa's nonconference rival.
I have a decent television set
Am I living in yesteryear?
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Not sure if we will do any games this year. Miami has a decent home schedule. Florida's is OK.
UF/UGA in Atlanta could be fun.
Go to a South Florida game.
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it should stay in Atlanta permanently. Atlanta is a MUCH nicer place to visit than Jacksonville lol.
Jax is just Atlanta Jr. And it's on the coast.
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The University of Iowa College of Law offered me free lunch and a free parking pass today for the Iowa State game. There are very few parking spots in the law school lot. I went to undergrad at Iowa, but graduated from law school at FSU. I advertised a law clerk position today, and in response, received this offer.
The game tickets are $200+. I'd like to go; the parking is worth $35-$40. Lunch is probably worth $10-$15. The convenience of not toting a cooler around, probably $10. But the aftermarket game tickets seem outrageous, and I am still upset Iowa ever started this series as an annual series adding credibility to Iowa State as a major football program (which they weren't), and deleted Notre Dame as Iowa's nonconference rival.
I have a decent television set
Am I living in yesteryear?
$200 is a lot for a game you're not excited about
how far is the drive?
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Go to a South Florida game.
I'm probably not going to Miami.
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Jax is just Atlanta Jr. And it's on the coast.
No.
Yes.
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Season tickets to IU football so all the home games. My son and I have tossed around the idea of making road trips to Nebraska and Michigan. Negotiations with the wife are underway.
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Not sure if we will do any games this year. Miami has a decent home schedule. Florida's is OK.
UF/UGA in Atlanta could be fun.
Is the Cocktail Party not going to be in Jacksonville while they re-do the stadium AGAIN?
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Also, just the Gopher home games this year. The road game in Seattle is the one weekend of the whole fall I can't go.
Black Friday in Madison is both appealing and a game time decision. I've seen some horrible Gopher games down there, and I'd like to get a win down there.
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Is the Cocktail Party not going to be in Jacksonville while they re-do the stadium AGAIN?
Atlanta this year and Tampa next year.
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Season tickets to IU football so all the home games. My son and I have tossed around the idea of making road trips to Nebraska and Michigan. Negotiations with the wife are underway.
Let me know if you make it to Lincoln - I'll buy you a sharkwater
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Miami at Clemson w some novices to fun college atmospheres. Mostly nfl honks.
Likely some other game.
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Me not attending games isn't news, given where I live in relation to my team. But I'm not attending the Purdue@UCLA game.
It's cheap. Unlike most opponents, Purdue even has a nonzero chance to win.
But I just have no excitement at all. Especially since we have the kids that weekend and I don't want to drag the whole family to a night game in Pasadena.
I feel like my fandom is broken.
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could go in the grumpy old man thread
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Going to the NIU @Iowa game on Saturday. Now the forecast is 95 degrees for a game that starts at 3:15 PM CDT.
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Going to the NIU @Iowa game on Saturday. Now the forecast is 95 degrees for a game that starts at 3:15 PM CDT.
Around here that's what we call "football weather!"
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and 3:15 kickoffs are very rare
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Not really, not anymore. Our kickoff on Saturday is 2:30. TV dictates everything.
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jeez! have they no shame! Someone could perish
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and 3:15 kickoffs are very rare
NFL! NFL!
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the Vikings have AC and play up north