Anyone here live in Austin? Need UT home game advice and UT boards = no help

I'm a Baton Rouge native who now lives in Austin and I somehow wound up with tickets to tomorrow's showdown(beatdown?) between UT & OSU. I need some advice on what tailgating is like down there and how early I should show up or if there is anything interesting worth showing up early to the stadium for at all. Do they check people at the gate for alcohol very well? Important questions


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