I am driving up 321 right now and at 1:15 three large buses came speeding by on the wrong side of the road going up the mountain with state trooper escort. Was that Idaho showing up two hours prior to kick off? I wonder if something happened with their flight?

Sounds familiar. I think they ran into the same issue where they barely made it in time last year when they traveled to S. Alabama or Troy

Aw man, does anyone know where they fly out from? Now I'm all curious.

They often fly in and out the same day. They travel lightly. I think they may have brought 50 players today.

They stayed in Hickory, NC this year instead of Boone. 2 years ago they had no hot water at the hotel they stayed at. The escort was to make sure they arrived on time but they were 1 hour late, they left at 12:20 didn't get to the stadium till like 1:45pm.

We had a bottleneck at base of hill into BLOWING ROCK, police escort did get them by, but it was about 10 minute delay.