UF/UGA Fans - TWLOCP

Love it, don't want to change it. End of story.

Anyone who thinks it should be moved is a pussy. It's truly one of the greatest traditions in all of college football. To my knowledge it's one of only 2 recurring neutral site games that splits the fans 50/50.






It's not just a game, it's an event. Georgia fans start pulling into the area on Tuesday. Hotel people have told me that UGA/UF weekend is bigger and crazier than when Jax hosted the super bowl. Saint Simons, Jekyll, St. Augustine, Jacksonville, etc are all completely filled with UGA and UF fans for 3-5 days. The landing on Friday and Saturday is insane, and probably one of the crazier party scenes in CFB.

It's tradition. It's been that way every year since 1933 (except during 2 years of stadium renovation). As mentioned, you sacrifice playing at Sanford/BHG, but Jacksonville is better. Not on its own, but for this game there's no better setting.

And you may frown on playing in Dallas every year, but you can't even compare the 2. Sure Dallas's stadium is nicer, but it's still Dallas instead of the beach. I'm sure if aTm and Arkansas had a setting like This every year you'd reconsider.

Texas/OU is the obvious other one but A&M/Arkansas in Jerryworld and maybe USC/UCLA in the Rose Bowl?

I don't know. Just guessing.



And I obviously know TWLOCP is a huge deal. Just didn't know if fans hated robbing the series of the swamp and Sanford


Edit for stadium name slip up

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Texas/OU is the obvious other one

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Yes.

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A&M/Arkansas in Jerryworld

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How long have yall been doing that? I don't count johnny come lately neutral site games.

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USC/UCLA in the Rose Bowl?

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Do they get 50/50 seating? I don't know.

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Just didn't know if fans hated robbing the series of the swamp and BHG

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First of all the swamp and BHG are the same place. Second, hell no nobody hates it. The only people that care are a)losers who think where the game is played has some bearing on the outcome [ie, we lose because the game is in florida] b)old folks who don't want to drive down there.

Everyone else, UGA and UF fans alike, love it and wouldn't change it for anything.

Ole Miss and State played in Jackson for nearly 20 years.

I really liked it mainly because it meant we didn't have to go to Starkville, and it kept them out of Oxford.

Jackie Sherrill lobbied for the game to be returned to campus in '91.

Ole Miss was 14-4 in those games.

It is so much more than just a football game and I think there are very small minorities on both sides that what it moved to home and home. I look forward to WLOCP week all year long.

Honestly, it is pure unadulterated bliss until you see the team buses pull into town and it's like the mood of the party scene stops on a dime. Things get tense, serious. My hair stands on end. You know that in a couple of hours nearly 100,000 inside the stadium and thousands more around those two states are about to be in gut-wrenching agony, the payoff for which is one of the better feelings you will ever have. There is nothing quite as sweet as marching down the stadium ramps and into the Jacksonville night with your bulldog or gator brethren and letting the whole fricking world know that you are on top of the world.

It's just unique. Nothing else like it.

i won't try to paint a better picture than everyone else already had but i wouldn't change GA/FLA for the world. one of the greatest parts of our rivalry and being a fan of either school. it's a weekend of weekends that is really more like a week. those who want to change it either have never been or have some kind of miserable bug up their arse.

Georgia fans have certainly changed their tune now that they've won the last two.