.Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior Citizen WriterAug 22, 2024, 07:00 AM ETClose ACC press reporter.Signed up with ESPN.com in 2010.Graduate of the University of Florida.In the lead-up to Sunday's kickoff between Fla Condition and Georgia Tech, each colleges invested 17 months creating spreadsheets, filling out records and also triple-checking personalizeds rules to make certain they stuffed all the basics for their transatlantic trip.Uniforms? Check.Cleats? Check.Ranch dressing? Umm, check?The Ramblin' Wreckage? Regretfully, back in Atlanta.Renegade, Osceola and their flaming spear? So that pesky quarantine issue had actually been solved.Even without their most well-known pregame practices taking a trip along with all of them to Dublin, Fla State and Georgia Technician are going to heading Week 0 with whatever they need to have to play football with the help of a thorough behind-the-scenes attempt that Georgia Technology supervisor of football procedures Josh Thompson describes as "not for the faint of center." In all, the colleges blended to take 238 dog crates considering more than 40,000 pounds-- stuffed and also transported on freight planes recently-- loaded with everything from activity day equipment to sport medicine essentials, healthy protein particle, treats such as Goldfish and yes, condiments that are certainly not offered in Dublin.Editor's Picks2 Related" There is no area for inaccuracy right here," claimed Jason Baisden, Fla State associate athletic supervisor for devices procedures. "When we exist, our experts're there. We can't go back or even can not call as well as mention, 'Hey, take this with you.'" Each universities started to prepare for this video game in March 2023, soon after it was actually introduced. Fla State supervisor of football procedures Bruce Warwick had actually been part of numerous abroad games in his previous stops in the NFL, thus he actually had a great suggestion concerning what relocating a whole team more than 4,000 kilometers away will entail.Beyond packing up all the required equipment, tickets would certainly must be actually safeguarded, a number of in-person internet site check outs to the team resort would certainly require to become made (consisting of food items tastings) and communication with officials in Ireland would need to be accurate. Nothing at all-- like thinking that an American biscuit as well as an Irish biscuit were the same-- can be left to odds." I needed to discover to speak their language," Baisden pointed out. "Like, it is actually not an outfit to all of them, it is actually a package. It is actually the English language, but our company had to make certain nothing at all was actually dropped along with the translation of what we are actually carrying out." Baisden and also Thompson helped make calls to folks they recognized at Notre Dame and also Navy, pair of colleges that had earlier played in Ireland. Baisden requested for their carnet, a file that promotes short-lived international imports and exports. Basically, the carnet specifies every item that is actually taken right into an international nation line by line, with specific numbers.Florida State AthleticsWant to take snack foods for the group? No worry. Yet every snack, from applesauce to biscuits, need to be actually listed. The same chooses rolls of strip, handwear covers, protein particles. You desire to deliver it? You must note it.At Fla State, Baisden ended up being the factor individual in between divisions. In January, he asked the sport nutrition, sporting activity medicine, creative video, weightlifting, radio broadcast and sporting activities info groups to begin determining what they absolutely needed to deliver along with them.He described the procedure as organizing "an abroad bowl journey." However the information along with which everything needed to be made a list of goes far past any bowl travel preparation, where universities can just arm their equipment trucks and also perform their way. For this travel, Baisden labeled every crate along with what it was actually for-- accommodation, method, game.International trip is actually why the Ramblin' Accident and also Renegade and Osceola were left behind in your home. Irish officials had actually inquired about their availability, as well as both colleges had serious conversations concerning locating a method to accomplish it.Renegade, the epic horse ridden by Osceola before every Fla Condition home activity to plant a flaming harpoon at midfield, would certainly have must sequester en route back to Tallahassee as called for by worldwide rules. Therefore, the equine would have been unavailable for the home opener against Boston University on Sept. 2. And also, this is actually actually a Georgia Technology home game.A gold and white 1930 Ford Version A Sport Sports car referred to as the "Ramblin' Wreck" has led the Yellow Jackets onto the area for each home video game considering that 1961. The Wreckage will must take a trip on a ship to get to Ireland. The trip opportunity home would certainly have suggested it, too, would have been actually not available for the home opener against Georgia Condition on Aug. 31. There had actually been conversation regarding making use of an Irish "relative" of the Wreckage, a Peugeot-type from Dublin, yet the idea was nixed.There was plenty even more that needed to be actually covered to get to the goal. Florida Condition ended up needing to acquire 85 keys for its own players Georgia Tech must obtain 70 in overall between gamers and personnel. Probably the absolute most unanticipated obstacle the teams experienced was making certain they will have the ability to make use of the brand new innovation enabled starting this season-- coach-to-helmet communication as well as apples ipad on the sideline.The headset devices trainers utilize on the subsidiary in the USA do not function overseas given that they make use of various carrier frequency. Both colleges had to lease brand new devices, and that indicates a different belt pack for coaches to obtain made use of to. Florida Condition practiced with all of them during skirmishes so the trains might begin to get a sample of them.Thompson stated the schools needed to protect numerous lines of frequency for the interaction headsets to function. The ipad tablets called for balance with Aviva Arena and regional sellers for certain fiber collections made use of to upgrade video clip in real time. The institutions have actually possessed regular telephone calls along with the ACC and also different vendors to ensure every thing is ready to go. Every thing will definitely be actually examined Friday.Florida Condition Athletics" The instructors don't as if modification. I do not as if improvement," Thompson said. "Everyone is actually a creature of of routine. I intend to walk right into the stadium when the crew walks in and make certain every little thing is done. I don't intend to need to be actually running around panicking, 'All right, how are our experts mosting likely to handle this?'" The groups experienced various flight terminals to have their payload soared over, all at the instructions of Aer Lingus, the game's title supporter. Florida State packed up a vehicle last week that left behind for Orlando, where its dog crates were then placed on payload plane pallets gotten in touch with "cookie pieces" for international trip and then soared to Dublin. Georgia Technology possessed its own freight happen an airplane to Chicago, and after that on Dublin.Everything soared over gotten here prior to the crews got inside Thursday morning. Each crew sent out an advance team early to open cages as well as begin sorting items for make use of at the lodging or even coliseum. Equipment supervisors established their particular closet rooms for Thursday method. In addition, both staffs possessed thousands of situations of Powerade and canteen directly delivered to both the resort and also stadium.The resorts were selected for their similarities to normal road resorts. They needed to have sizable enough spaces offered for team conferences, but also meals that sampled like home. Warwick claimed grits, as an example, were actually a nonstarter considering that the cooks could possibly not prepare all of them to specification. Florida Condition gamers have an alikeness for farm dressing, A1 steak dressing as well as Tabasco, things unavailable in Ireland, so those details condiments were actually stuffed." The food is the greatest obstacle because they like what they as if and they understand what they recognize," Warwick claimed. "Our team made an effort to keep it as Americanized as feasible." The teams themselves left the United States on Wednesday evening, but also their separations appeared different. For residential video game trip, both staffs go through TSA safety and security testing at their respective stadiums prior to boarding buses and also moving to their charter flights.But for a worldwide trip, both teams need to go through the normal safety and security line at their particular airports. It is a single thing for Fla State to look at its tiny local airport terminal in Tallahassee. However only picture the 289-person Georgia Technician take a trip event bring up to Concourse F at Hartsfield-Jackson International Flight Terminal in Atlanta ga and also going through security.Aer Lingus, the title enroller of the game, needed to acquire special permission to safeguard a gateway. Thompson mentioned he has actually been guaranteed there are going to be actually added safety lanes open to get Georgia Technician with efficiently. He intends to use a "husk body" where he differentiates the gamers into teams, along with one assigned the leader as well as behind making sure everybody possesses their passports.Players are going to be actually told regularly about carry out's and also carry out n'ts if they are carrying carry-ons, including the measurements of permitted liquids." I can't stand by to find when I'm the last person that experiences the TSA pipes what all was actually taken throughout that opportunity," Thompson said.Now photo this upon appearance: Gamers standing around the luggage carousel, awaiting their player equipment bags. Those bags had to take a trip with all of them since both teams engaged in all the way around their retirement day. So the bags obtain checked onto the aircraft upon flight terminal delivery, for pick-up in baggage insurance claim, besides their very own individual luggage. For this trip, Florida State got its own gamers tailored roller traveling bags. Both crews will definitely have a light strategy at the coliseum after they get there, along with the primary objective to obtain everyone accommodated to the five-hour time modification. Georgia Tech trainer Brent Secret, who mosted likely to Ireland for an activity as a UCF aide in 2014, claimed he performs not desire to produce the excursion any larger than it has to be actually-- drawing from his previous abroad experience." Our company overcoached those kids," Key claimed, describing UCF's 26-24 loss to Penn State. "We made an effort to provide an encounter. Our experts took them to various areas, took all of them on scenic tours and also it was actually just a lot of stuff when you are actually reviewing there to participate in soccer activity. Perform you recognize what brings in a fantastic experience? Gaining." To that end, Georgia Specialist are going to soar home after the activity as it possesses a strict turn-around to the adhering to week. Due to the fact that Fla State uses a Monday evening, train Mike Norvell made a decision to have the crew stay on Sunday for some sightseeing just before going back to Tallahassee.Though that method is various, intending the logistics in the lead-up to the video game has actually equaled. The institutions have resided in continuous interaction, however there will certainly be actually stress upon appearance, during the game as well as postgame, also. Everything has to be actually repacked for traveling back home, as well as at customs Sunday night. In each cases-- travel to and from-- both universities have to depend intensely on individuals they have never fulfilled to do the job." Anytime and also every time I travel, I panic if my bag is actually going to acquire there, so you most definitely bother with that," Thompson mentioned. "You're moving almost 300 individuals at one time. So you merely need to be sure it is actually correct as well as correct.".