re: Welp, this might be the end of the CFA Kickoff Game - 2025 will match Syracuse and VOLS

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We really didn't go to any of the bowls/title games the first 4-5 years of the run, either, when we were young and house poor.

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Yeah, I skipped out on the 2011 game because I was poor and in grad school. The tickets, plus hotel, plus airfare, plus everything else was just way more than I could justfy financially in my situation at the time. Guess that worked out for the best, couldn't imagine having spent all that money and then witnessing that beatdown in person

2019 is what bothers me, though. I had scheduled a trial months earlier, not even thinking about the the national title game. I also thought the case would settle. My client was/is a big college football guy and I definitely gave him some shite about me not going to the game once we were definitely in it. Then, of course, the parties stopped acting stupid and we settled the damn case the night before trial and the game

I was at least able to go to the Auburn, Ole Miss, Vandy, Georgia, and Oklahoma games, which is way more than I'm usually able to go to living in the Nashville area

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Clemson has 2 P5 games lined up every year between 2021 and 2037 and one of them is a road game every year.

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So? More and more teams are dropping the games against small schools. Georgia is regularly playing 3 P5 OOC games after 2025. No reason they can’t pick up a kickoff game after 2026.

Georgia:

2026: UCLA, LVille, GT
2027: FSU, LVille, GT
2028: Texas, FSU, GT
2029: Texas, Clemson, GT
2030: Clemson, Ohio St, GT
2031: Ohio St, Oklahoma, GT
2032:

Stadium gonna look like the inside of a baby’s diaper after eating sweet potatoes

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I have college friends and then friends in Atlanta who are UGA folks who still go to like 2-3 road games a year plus all the home games. I mean, more power to them, I just don't have the bandwidth to do that (or the desire, honestly). You get old, you have kids with activities, work is hard, you have limited time to just sit in a chair. Going to football games is fun but it's not easy.

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Oh, I'm right there with you. When I was younger, I'd go to as many games as I could. Now, with a wife, a baby, a demanding job, etc. it honestly would be more stressful and just a racket in general to try to go to 6-7 games a year. If I lived in the area, I probably would because I could go home after the game. But I live 8-9 hours away. That's a big commitment and involves a lot of preemptive planning to take a trip that far away for even a weekend. And then I'm generally wrecked for half of the following week. It's much more enjoyable to me at this stage in my life to try to make 1 home game a year and maybe an away game if it's close and just watch the rest of the games from the comfort of my own home. We'll have people over, cookout, put up a projector screen in the backyard, etc. and that's just as enjoyable to me a lot of the time.

My best friend from back home travels from Memphis to Knoxville for every damn game every year. He says every year he's not gonna do it again, but nothing ever changes. That would wear me the hell out, especially if my team wasn't winning like the Vols

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We generally sell off all but 2-3 of our season tickets and then pack them money away to use for Atlanta and/or playoffs. And if we end up not making it then we have a nice worry free, cash only Christmas

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My mother still goes to most of the home games and just stays with my sister who lives in Baton Rouge. She's really wierd about me trying to help her sell our tickets when they won't be used. It's like she's too old to understand how easy it is and the concept of it stresses her out or something

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And it's because they know Georgia Tech is the equivalent of an American opponent in terms of how it helps them, so they need 2 real P5 opponents in addition to them.

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And the same logic could be applied to Clemson and South Carolina

The part that would interest me the most (if I was in the same year-in year-out situation with UGA) would be getting to play in all the classic Bowls on a big stage.

The Rose Bowl in 2018 will easily be my greatest in-person memory/game, but I'd love to see Georgia in all the major bowls/semis for the historic component

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The part that would interest me the most (if I was in the same year-in year-out situation with UGA) would be getting to play in all the classic Bowls on a big stage.

The Rose Bowl in 2018 will easily be my greatest in-person memory/game, but I'd love to see Georgia in all the major bowls/semis for the historic component

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Yea, the Rose Bowl thing is clearly in a class by itself. The thing is outside of the Rose Bowl there really aren't all that many cool/classic bowls/games left.

The Cotton Bowl is cool, but they don't play it in the Cotton Bowl anymore so it's not really the same. The Orange Bowl, same. The Sugar Bowl is fun but isn't really fun from a "historical" point of view. Playing a team from 3 hours up interstate 85 in South Carolina in the middle of Silicon Valley was........an experience, though

We certainly had some laughs with the Clemson folks before that game in San Francisco that we just needed to all agree not to show up the next time they made us play a game outside of the South. We did Phoenix and San Francisco, next time we're playing in Atlanta or we aren't playing at all

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IMO, neutral site games should be reserved for teams that have a significant history

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Tennessee DOES have a significant history. It’s just been a long long time ago.

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Then they’ll move it to Friday or Thursday.

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If everybody is fine making less money then the game will survive and just be a lesser version.