re: Traveling to Austin - The official thread

For those of you with tickets, I'd advise you to start heading into the stadium at least 30 minutes before kickoff to make sure you can get to your seat in time. With the SEZ construction project, the stadium is lacking two large capacity entrances at gates 1 and 32 so there are big bottlenecks getting your tickets scanned.

I'll add though, that you can enter through any gate so don't just go to the first one you see if there's a huge crowd. You can probably find a shorter line somewhere if you keep walking around the stadium. But the gates along the north and west sides are going to be clusterfricks in general due to Bevo Blvd.

Scooters galore in Austin? COuld use one to get to the stadium instead of Uber

Catching an Astros game in Houston on Thursday, then a Mark Knopfler concert the next night. Getting up early on Saturday for the ride to Austin. Tix to the game way overpriced, but I'm glad I bought in May.

I'd add a few things to the list...

Fonda San Miguel for old-school, interior mexican. It's an Austin classic & amazing meal every time. ATXCocina downtown is amazing. Fancy, but amazing. For something lower maintenance, try Trudy's or Maudies for Tex Mex. We like our breakfast tacos here. Veracruz, which was mentioned earlier, is bomb. Tacodeli and Torchy's are also both great as well for tacos.

We like our healthy options around here. 24 Diner downtown is great. I'm personally a fan of Honest Mary's as well. You can always do a chain like True Food Kitchen or Flower Child as well to have something healthy.

BBQ game has improved a ton over the last decade, and you can get some excellent food at Black's a little north of campus, or La Barbeque, Stiles Switch, Lambert's downtown... there are a bunch of options which are miles ahead of anything you'd get in Louisiana. Get the beef rib if you are hungry.

I would not do Salt Lick unless you want the experience of being 30 mins outside of the city.

Austin is relatively safe compared to Baton Rouge (homeless ordinance notwithstanding), and traffic post-game flows better because the roads are mostly in a grid. I have walked from downtown to campus in the past -- younger, fit people should be able to do that.

You can pretty much walk anywhere for 2 miles in any direction and not be in danger. One caveat -- just avoid 7th & Red River/Neches/Trinity b/c that's where the homeless shelter is. It's called the ARCH. Stay away.

Bluebonnet Golf Course is a great option. It’s less than $50 on weekends and they enforce a 4 hour pace of play. It’s our go-to course when we know we have a tight schedule.

The other recommendations on this thread are strong as well but a little more pricey. The muni courses are slow on weekends so plan accordingly.

If you don’t have a tee time yet you need to get one quickly as all of the courses tend to fill up.

All that said, we’re playing at Avery Ranch at 8:00 so if there and see the purple and gold, say hello!

Geaux Tigers!

You guys and gals just have some fun and be safe. Eat some great food, check out all the sites and just remember to come back again in the future.

Man is this going to be a huge game, Oklahoma? F'ck there ain't no Oklahoma on this schedule.. It is all LSU for do or die.

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Headed in on Thursday morning....Uchi reservation at 6...Friday lunch at Lucy's on Lake Travis ...Friday nite dinner for 8 at Red Ash...Sat tailgate starting at 1 with catering by Franklin's BBQ and Jambalaya and fried catfish by Lafayette oilfield service company!

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This guy Austins

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What’s the law downtown about open container? Can u walk around with open beer can or must be in a cup?

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No bueno

the only thing i know about the band for this game is that they are bringing 110 - i would imagine they have to march through "Smoky's Midway" to get to the north end zone