.Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterAug 22, 2024, 07:00 AM ETClose ACC media reporter.Signed up with ESPN.com in 2010.Grad of the University of Florida.In the lead-up to Saturday's kickoff in between Florida Condition and Georgia Tech, both universities spent 17 months creating spread sheets, submitting records and triple-checking customs regulations to see to it they stuffed all the essentials for their transatlantic trip.Uniforms? Check.Cleats? Check.Ranch suiting up? Umm, check?The Ramblin' Accident? Regrettably, back in Atlanta.Renegade, Osceola and also their flaming javelin? If only that pesky quarantine issue had actually been actually solved.Even without their very most iconic pregame practices traveling with them to Dublin, Florida State as well as Georgia Technician are going to title Week 0 along with everything they need to play volleyball due to a thorough backstage attempt that Georgia Tech director of football procedures Josh Thompson calls "except the pale of soul." With all, the colleges incorporated to deliver 238 cages weighing much more than 40,000 pounds-- stuffed and also transported on payload aircrafts recently-- filled with every thing coming from game time tools to sporting activity medicine essentials, healthy protein particle, treats including Fish as well as yes, condiments that are actually not offered in Dublin.Editor's Picks2 Related" There is actually no area for inaccuracy here," pointed out Jason Baisden, Fla State aide athletic supervisor for devices functions. "As soon as our company're there, we're there. Our experts can't come back or can't call as well as claim, 'Hey, deliver this with you.'" Each institutions started to get ready for this video game in March 2023, shortly after it was declared. Fla Condition supervisor of volleyball procedures Bruce Warwick had actually become part of numerous abroad activities in his previous drop in the NFL, thus he actually possessed a good suggestion about what relocating a whole entire team more than 4,000 kilometers away would entail.Beyond leaving all the necessary equipment, tickets will must be safeguarded, numerous in-person web site sees to the crew resort would certainly require to be made (including food samplings) as well as communication with officials in Ireland would certainly must be exact. Nothing at all-- like supposing that an American cookie and an Irish biscuit coincided-- might be left to odds." I needed to find out to communicate their foreign language," Baisden stated. "Like, it is actually certainly not an attire to all of them, it is actually a set. It is the English foreign language, however our experts needed to be sure absolutely nothing was actually shed along with the translation of what we are actually doing." Baisden as well as Thompson helped make phone call to folks they understood at Notre Dame and also Naval force, two schools that had formerly played in Ireland. Baisden asked for their carnet, a record that assists in momentary global imports and exports. Generally, the carnet provides every product that is delivered into an international nation line through line, with exact numbers.Florida Condition AthleticsWant to bring treats for the team? No worry. Yet every treat, from applesauce to biscuits, have to be listed. The exact same opts for rolls of strip, handwear covers, healthy protein particles. You intend to take it? You have to note it.At Fla Condition, Baisden came to be the point person in between departments. In January, he talked to the sport health and nutrition, sport medication, creative online video, weightlifting, radio show and also sporting activities relevant information teams to start identifying what they definitely had to take along with them.He explained the method as getting ready for "a foreign dish trip." However the detail with which whatever must be itemized goes far past any kind of bowl trip prep work, where institutions may merely load up their tools vehicles as well as perform their technique. For this vacation, Baisden identified every cage along with what it was for-- lodging, method, game.International travel is why the Ramblin' Accident and also Insurgent and also Osceola were actually left behind in the home. Irish representatives had inquired about their schedule, and both colleges possessed major discussions regarding discovering a method to perform it.Renegade, the epic steed ridden by Osceola prior to every Fla Condition home activity to grow an ablaze harpoon at midfield, would certainly have had to quarantine heading back to Tallahassee as required by worldwide requirements. Therefore, the equine would have been actually not available for the home opener against Boston College on Sept. 2. Additionally, this is actually theoretically a Georgia Technician home game.A gold as well as white 1930 Ford Version A Sporting activity Coupe known as the "Ramblin' Wreckage" has actually led the Yellow Jackets onto the area for every home video game given that 1961. The Wreck will have to take a trip on a ship to come to Ireland. The traveling opportunity home would certainly have implied it, too, would certainly have been actually unavailable for the home opener against Georgia State on Aug. 31. There had actually been actually conversation concerning making use of an Irish "cousin" of the Accident, a Peugeot-type stand-in from Dublin, yet the concept was nixed.There was actually plenty extra that must be explained to come to the finish line. Fla State wound up having to receive 85 travel permits for its own gamers Georgia Technology must get 70 in total between players as well as personnel. Perhaps the best unanticipated difficulty the teams dealt with was making sure they would certainly be able to use the brand-new innovation made it possible for beginning this time-- coach-to-helmet communication and also iPads on the sideline.The headset units instructors utilize on the subsidiary in the USA carry out not operate overseas because they use different superhigh frequency. Each colleges had to lease new devices, which indicates a different waistband pack for coaches to obtain utilized to. Fla Condition practiced with them in the course of skirmishes so the instructors might begin to receive a feel for them.Thompson mentioned the schools must protect numerous collections of regularity for the interaction headsets to operate. The iPads needed control with Aviva Arena as well as local area providers for certain thread collections utilized to improve video recording directly. The colleges have possessed regular telephone calls with the ACC and also different merchants to make certain whatever prepares to go. Every little thing is going to be checked Friday.Florida Condition Athletics" The coaches do not like improvement. I do not such as improvement," Thompson pointed out. "Everyone is a creature of of habit. I intend to stroll into the coliseum when the group walks in as well as ensure every thing is done. I do not desire to have to be actually running around panicking, 'Okay, exactly how are our team heading to handle this?'" The teams underwent various flight terminals to have their freight flown over, all at the path of Aer Lingus, the game's headline enroller. Florida State packed up a vehicle recently that left for Orlando, where its crates were actually at that point placed on cargo airplane pallets contacted "cookie slabs" for international traveling and then soared to Dublin. Georgia Specialist possessed its own freight go on an aircraft to Chicago, and after that on to Dublin.Everything soared over gotten there prior to the crews got inside Thursday early morning. Each crew sent out an advancement group early to open up crates and begin sorting things for use at the hotels and resort or coliseum. Tools managers established their respective closet areas for Thursday method. Moreover, both crews possessed thousands of situations of Powerade as well as canteen directly transported to both the hotel and also stadium.The hotels and resorts were actually selected for their resemblances to typical street lodgings. They must have huge enough rooms on call for crew meetings, however also food that sampled like home. Warwick said grits, for instance, were actually a nonstarter because the cooks might not cook them to spec. Florida Condition players have an alikeness for cattle ranch clothing, A1 steak sauce and also Tabasco, products unavailable in Ireland, therefore those particular dressings were actually loaded." The meals is the largest problem due to the fact that they like what they as if and also they recognize what they know," Warwick mentioned. "Our team attempted to maintain it as Americanized as feasible." The teams themselves left the USA on Wednesday night, however even their retirements looked different. For domestic video game travel, both crews experience TSA safety and security testing at their particular arenas prior to boarding buses and also moving to their charter flights.But for an international journey, both groups have to undergo the regular protection pipe at their corresponding airports. It is one thing for Florida Condition to experience its little regional airport terminal in Tallahassee. However only imagine the 289-person Georgia Technician take a trip party bring up to Concourse F at Hartsfield-Jackson International Flight Terminal in Atlanta and also experiencing security.Aer Lingus, the title enroller of the activity, must acquire exclusive authorization to safeguard a gateway. Thompson claimed he has been guaranteed there will be actually additional safety streets open up to acquire Georgia Technology with properly. He organizes to utilize a "shuck unit" where he splits up the players in to groups, with one marked the captain and also responsible for being sure every person possesses their passports.Players will certainly be actually reminded regularly around perform's as well as carry out n'ts if they are taking baggages, consisting of the dimension of permitted fluids." I can't hang around to view when I am actually the final person that looks at the TSA pipes what all was taken in the course of that time," Thompson said.Now image this upon arrival: Gamers standing around the baggage carousel, waiting on their gamer equipment bags. Those bags must travel with all of them given that each groups practiced all the way up to their departure day. So the bags obtain examined onto the aircraft upon airport delivery, for pick up in baggage claim, in addition to their own private suitcases. For this trip, Florida State acquired its own players personalized curler travel suitcases. Both crews are going to possess a light technique at the coliseum after they show up, along with the primary objective to obtain every person acclimated to the five-hour time adjustment. Georgia Specialist instructor Brent Key, that went to Ireland for an activity as a UCF assistant in 2014, mentioned he does certainly not wish to create the journey any bigger than it must be-- drawing from his previous foreign experience." Our experts overcoached those little ones," Trick stated, pertaining to UCF's 26-24 loss to Penn Condition. "We attempted to provide an experience. We took them to various spots, took all of them on trips and also it was actually only too much stuff when you are actually reviewing there to play football game. Perform you know what creates an excellent knowledge? Succeeding." Therefore, Georgia Tech will soar home after the game as it has a tight turnaround to the following week. Considering that Fla State plays on a Monday night, coach Mike Norvell decided to have the group stay on Sunday for some taking in the sights just before coming back to Tallahassee.Though that approach is various, preparing the coordinations in the lead-up to the video game has actually equaled. The universities have been in continuous communication, but there are going to be stress and anxiety upon arrival, throughout the video game and also postgame, as well. Whatever must be actually repacked for traveling back home, and at custom-mades Saturday night. In each cases-- traveling to and also coming from-- both schools must count greatly on people they have never ever met to do the job." Anytime as well as every single time I take a trip, I panic if my bag is actually going to acquire there certainly, so you undoubtedly worry about that," Thompson pointed out. "You're relocating virtually 300 people at one time. So you just must make certain it is correct as well as ideal.".