My grandfather first bought season tickets for LSU football in 1948. When my parents graduated from LSU in 1955 they became season ticket holders, and in 1966 they added four more season tickets in the south end zone for the kids. I have sat in those south end zone seats for 47 years now.

This year, with the move to Austin, I sold our LSU tickets (just for the year) to a friend who would be able to use them and bought season tickets to Baylor football games. Now, it should tell you something about Baylor season tickets sales that I could wait until October of the current season to buy them and get decent seats. However, Baylor is moving into a new stadium next year and having season tickets this year will give us priority for seat selection in the new stadium. And it does not hurt that I paid less for both season tickets to Baylor than the “donation” I have to make to LSU just for the right to buy season tickets!

With recent events, this weekend was the first game we got to attend. Baylor hosted Kansas State and Peggy and I drove up on Saturday afternoon for the game. It was a nice crisp afternoon, we saw many friends we have not seen in a while, we saw a beautiful harvest moon, and we saw Baylor beat K-State 71-7. Wow. That is not being a very gracious host.

Baylor is very good, but Kansas State did nothing to slow down Baylor’s offense. After a lifetime of watching SEC defenses it was a real shock to the system. 71 points in a conference game is pretty much unheard of in the SEC, unless the game goes to five overtimes…

It was a great first night as a Baylor season ticket holder, and the game was over early enough for us to drive the 100 miles back to Austin and still go out to dinner. Now that is a win-win!

I’ll watch the recording of the LSU-Ole Miss game when I get home to remind myself what defense looks like…