College football week 14 thread: ATLiens

Twitter says otherwise.

(1) Blue Bloods Bias on X: " | BREAKING: Oklahoma Star QB Dillon Gabriel is transferring to Oregon With Bo Nix graduating, the Ducks will replace him with a very experienced playcaller. The former UCF & Oklahoma QB has over 13,000 career passing yards. (Via @CollegeFBPortal) https://t.co/dUYZHsGQqh" / X (twitter.com)

 

And their sourcing on that is another sketchy twitter handle that is quoting "sources."

No one even remotely reputable is reporting this.

 

Going to hell, I am, for doing a for-real lol at that. It was worth it.

 

You no longer have to worry that you’re buying from a guy you have to meet in some narrow alley, right? Feels safer, I hope.

 

It makes for a way more liquid market for sellers and buyers ... you're not trying to find that guy who has/wants those tickets in this price range; what's available (and what's selling) is quite transparent.

Last time I actually bought on the street was in 2017 outside DKR in Austin for a Friday-after-Thanksgiving game. I wanted 3 tickets and had $180 in $20s, and we walked back and forth looking. One guy wanted $200 for 3 and would not come down $20, even with minutes to go before kickoff. So I walked over to someone else, bought 2 tickets (one for MommaQuant and one for our youngest) for something like $120, bid them adieu and headed myself over to Scholz Garten. I think I got the best deal of all.

 

Texas' 10-9 loss to UGA in that Cotton Bowl was perhaps the biggest choke job I've ever seen in college football.

Fred Akers, for the LOSS!!

 

I had four for the Pitt-Syracuse game at Yankee Stadium three weeks ago that I listed on Stubhub. With both teams being unflushed toilet water, I had them listed well below face value and even then, no one was buying. The morning of the game, I got a notification that someone had bought three of them and that I was to transfer the seats to XXX email address, which I did. I was also told my payment would be deposited 5-8 days after the event, which game me some mild agita but, a week later, I got an email that it had been sent via PayPal.

So yeah, even for a technological idiot like me, its pretty simple.

 

That sounds like my experience last spring selling my Round of 64 ticket for the night session. Honestly the email made me nervous because of the language threatening to claw back however much money it took them to get the guy in if my ticket didn’t work, but everything went fine and I got my money on the timeline you laid out.

 

Coach Bowden always said that first you lose by a lot, then you lose by a little, then you win by a little, and then you win in blowouts.

This year Florida State won (every game, dammit! every game!) by a little. Guess what’s gonna happen next year.

 

FSU's 2024 schedule is a hell of a challenge.

Away games at Notre Dame, Duke, Miami and SMU. Georgia Tech at Dublin (Ireland, not Georgia). Home against Boston College, Clemson, North Carolina, Memphis, Cal, Charleston Southern and Florida.

 

That schedule is not terribly intimidating.

 

Has any kid dared hit the portal from Florida State?