.Andrea Adelson, ESPN Elderly Person WriterAug 22, 2024, 07:00 AM ETClose ACC media reporter.Signed up with ESPN.com in 2010.Graduate of the Educational Institution of Florida.In the lead-up to Saturday's first between Florida Condition and Georgia Technician, each universities spent 17 months creating spreadsheets, filling out papers and also triple-checking customizeds requirements to ensure they stuffed all the essentials for their transatlantic trip.Uniforms? Check.Cleats? Check.Ranch dressing? Umm, check?The Ramblin' Wreck? Regretfully, back in Atlanta.Renegade, Osceola and their flaming lance? So that pesky quarantine issue had actually been solved.Even without their most famous pregame traditions taking a trip with all of them to Dublin, Fla State and also Georgia Technician will certainly heading Week 0 along with every little thing they require to participate in football because of an extensive behind the curtain initiative that Georgia Technology supervisor of soccer operations Josh Thompson calls "except the pale of center." In every, the schools incorporated to bring 238 pet crates analyzing much more than 40,000 pounds-- packed and also shipped on freight planes recently-- full of whatever from game day devices to sporting activity medicine fundamentals, protein grain, snacks including Goldfish and also of course, seasonings that are actually not on call in Dublin.Editor's Picks2 Related" There is no area for inaccuracy here," mentioned Jason Baisden, Fla State associate sports director for tools functions. "Once we exist, our experts're there. Our team can't come back or can't contact and say, 'Hey, carry this along with you.'" Both institutions started to prepare for this game in March 2023, not long after it was actually announced. Fla State director of football operations Bruce Warwick had actually become part of a number of foreign activities in his previous stops in the NFL, thus he currently had a really good tip about what moving a whole entire team much more than 4,000 miles away would certainly entail.Beyond leaving all the necessary tools, travel permits would need to be actually protected, various in-person site sees to the crew hotel would need to have to become made (consisting of food items tastings) and also interaction with representatives in Ireland would certainly have to be actually precise. Nothing at all-- like supposing that an American biscuit and an Irish cookie were the same-- may be delegated opportunity." I had to know to communicate their language," Baisden said. "Like, it is actually certainly not an attire to them, it is actually a kit. It is actually the English foreign language, yet our team had to see to it nothing at all was actually dropped along with the translation of what we are carrying out." Baisden as well as Thompson created contact us to people they understood at Notre Dame and also Navy, two universities that had actually previously played in Ireland. Baisden requested their carnet, a document that helps with temporary global bring ins and exports. Generally, the carnet details every item that is actually taken right into a foreign country line through line, along with precise numbers.Florida State AthleticsWant to carry treats for the crew? No problem. Yet every snack food, coming from applesauce to crackers, need to be provided. The very same chooses rolls of strip, handwear covers, healthy protein grains. You want to carry it? You must detail it.At Fla Condition, Baisden became the point individual between teams. In January, he inquired the sport health and nutrition, sport medicine, creative video, weight training, radio program and also sports relevant information crews to start determining what they completely must carry along with them.He defined the process as getting ready for "a foreign bowl vacation." However the information with which whatever had to be itemized progresses past any bowl trip planning, where universities can merely load up their tools trucks and also be on their means. For this journey, Baisden labeled every crate with what it was actually for-- lodging, practice, game.International traveling is actually why the Ramblin' Accident and Renegade and also Osceola were left in the house. Irish representatives had asked about their supply, and also each universities had significant discussions regarding locating a method to do it.Renegade, the fabulous horse ridden by Osceola prior to every Fla Condition home game to grow a flaming bayonet at midfield, would certainly possess must quarantine heading back to Tallahassee as needed through worldwide regulations. Consequently, the steed will possess been not available for the home opener against Boston ma University on Sept. 2. Plus, this is theoretically a Georgia Tech home game.A gold and also white 1930 Ford Model A Sport Coupe known as the "Ramblin' Wreck" has led the Yellow Jackets onto the industry for each home game because 1961. The Wreckage would certainly have to travel on a ship to get to Ireland. The trip opportunity home would certainly possess meant it, also, would certainly have been actually unavailable for the home opener versus Georgia State on Aug. 31. There had been actually discussion about making use of an Irish "cousin" of the Wreckage, a Peugeot-type stand-in coming from Dublin, however the tip was actually nixed.There was actually plenty extra that needed to be reviewed to reach the goal. Florida State found yourself having to acquire 85 tickets for its own gamers Georgia Technology must get 70 in overall in between players and also staff. Perhaps the absolute most unpredicted difficulty the teams faced was actually making sure they would manage to utilize the brand new technology allowed beginning this season-- coach-to-helmet interaction as well as iPads on the sideline.The headset devices trainers utilize on the subsidiary in the USA carry out certainly not work overseas given that they use various radio frequencies. Both colleges had to rent out new bodies, and also means a various waistband pack for trainers to acquire utilized to. Florida Condition experimented all of them in the course of skirmishes so the instructors could possibly begin to receive a taste of them.Thompson claimed the universities had to secure various product lines of regularity for the interaction headsets to work. The ipad tablets required balance along with Aviva Coliseum as well as regional merchants for specific thread product lines made use of to upgrade video recording directly. The schools have had every week calls along with the ACC and also different merchants to ensure every thing prepares to go. Everything will certainly be actually tested Friday.Florida Condition Athletics" The coaches don't like modification. I don't as if improvement," Thompson said. "Everyone is an animal of of habit. I intend to stroll into the stadium when the crew walks in and make certain everything is done. I don't want to have to be actually running around panicking, 'Okay, just how are our company visiting handle this?'" The teams went through different flight terminals to have their freight soared over, all at the direction of Aer Lingus, the activity's label supporter. Florida Condition packed up a vehicle recently that left behind for Orlando, where its own crates were after that placed on cargo plane pallets gotten in touch with "cookie slabs" for worldwide trip and after that soared to Dublin. Georgia Specialist had its own payload go on an airplane to Chicago, and after that on to Dublin.Everything flown over gotten here just before the staffs got inside Thursday morning. Each crew sent out a breakthrough group early to open up cages and also begin sorting things for make use of at the hotels and resort or even arena. Tools managers put together their respective locker areas for Thursday strategy. Furthermore, both staffs had numerous cases of Powerade as well as water bottles straight delivered to both the lodging as well as stadium.The hotels and resorts were picked for their resemblances to ordinary street hotels and resorts. They must possess large adequate areas readily available for crew meetings, but likewise food items that tried like home. Warwick claimed grits, for example, were actually a nonstarter given that the chefs can not prepare them to spec. Fla State players have an affinity for farm dressing, A1 meat dressing and also Tabasco, products inaccessible in Ireland, therefore those details dressings were stuffed." The meals is the most significant difficulty due to the fact that they like what they such as and they understand what they recognize," Warwick mentioned. "We tried to maintain it as Americanized as feasible." The crews themselves left the USA on Wednesday night, but even their partings appeared various. For domestic video game trip, both staffs undergo TSA security screening process at their particular arenas prior to boarding buses as well as heading to their charter flights.But for a worldwide vacation, both crews need to go through the regular security pipe at their corresponding airports. It is actually one thing for Florida State to experience its own little local flight terminal in Tallahassee. However only picture the 289-person Georgia Specialist journey celebration pulling up to Concourse F at Hartsfield-Jackson International Flight Terminal in Atlanta ga as well as undergoing security.Aer Lingus, the title supporter of the game, needed to receive exclusive authorization to get a gateway. Thompson claimed he has been actually ensured there will certainly be added protection lanes open up to receive Georgia Technology via successfully. He prepares to make use of a "case unit" where he separates the gamers in to groups, along with one marked the leader and responsible for being sure everybody has their passports.Players will definitely be told often around perform's and carry out n'ts if they are delivering baggages, including the size of allowed liquids." I can not wait to find when I am actually the last person that looks at the TSA line what all was taken in the course of that opportunity," Thompson said.Now picture this upon landing: Gamers loafing the baggage slide carousel, expecting their player tools bags. Those bags had to take a trip along with all of them considering that each groups exercised all the way as much as their retirement time. So the bags acquire checked onto the airplane upon airport terminal delivery, for pickup in baggage claim, aside from their very own personal travel luggage. For this journey, Florida State acquired its players individualized curler travel suitcases. Each teams are going to have a lightweight technique at the arena after they get here, with the principal objective to acquire every person acclimated to the five-hour time change. Georgia Specialist train Brent Secret, that went to Ireland for an activity as a UCF associate in 2014, mentioned he carries out not wish to make the travel any much bigger than it needs to be-- drawing from his previous overseas encounter." Our company overcoached those children," Key said, referring to UCF's 26-24 loss to Penn State. "We made an effort to provide a take in. We took all of them to various locations, took all of them on tours and it was just excessive things when you are actually examining there to play football activity. Perform you know what makes a wonderful adventure? Gaining." To that end, Georgia Tech will fly home after the video game as it possesses a strict turnaround to the adhering to full week. Because Fla Condition plays on a Monday night, train Mike Norvell made a decision to have the staff stay on Sunday for some taking in the sights just before going back to Tallahassee.Though that strategy is various, considering the logistics in the lead-up to the video game has actually been identical. The institutions have remained in constant communication, yet there will certainly be anxiety upon landing, in the course of the video game and also postgame, too. Every little thing must be actually repacked for traveling back home, as well as at customs Sunday evening. In each situations-- travel to as well as from-- each institutions must depend highly on folks they have never satisfied to do the job." Anytime and also every single time I journey, I panic if my bag is going to obtain there, so you undoubtedly worry about that," Thompson stated. "You're moving nearly 300 people at one time. So you simply have to make certain it is right and also appropriate.".