OUInsider - Owen Field

I recommend call the OU ticket office. I doubt they can guarantee you tickets, but that would be where I would start.

I requested tickets to the UTEP game with my season tickets. I will likely get them, but it's not official.

Planning to drive down, via Alamogordo (to get a room there so I can get to Ruidoso easily the next day). I hope it's a late start. It was sunburn-city for some on Dec. 31, 2009, although it got kind of chilly when the sun got behind the mountain late in the game.

I'm sure lots of Artesia folks will be there, and probably a few Longhorn-wannabes from El Paso who will show up to be obnoxious. They might not be as frequent as they were at the '09 Sun Bowl, since they would receive many reminders of 55-17 if they show up and act like typical Bevoids.

I'm staying at the Hilton Garden Inn, which is at the entrance to the UTEP campus, and supposedly walking distance to the Sun Bowl. Airfare and hotel are free for me, as I'm a road warrier using points. Just need tickets now. I'm coming from Dallas, my boy is coming from College Station, and my father from Hobbs.

I'm driving in from SE AZ on Friday. Staying at the Marriott. It was just recently remodeled and is one of the better hotels in town. Don't have tics yet but planned to buy thru Utep or on- line source. See you there!

Boomer Sooner!

SWS

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Yeah right

Flying down on Friday from Oregon and then renting a car for a road trip home with 3 days in Vegas. Counting the days!

If you drive, from the OKC area, I'd take I-40 to Amarillo, then go from there to Canyon (I-27 / U.S. 60), Clovis (U.S. 60), Roswell (U.S. 70), Ruidoso (still U.S. 70) and Alamogordo, where you can either take 70 to Las Cruces and then down, or U.S. 54 down directly. It's 84 miles from Alamogordo to El Paso on 54, but it's four lanes all the way now. It beats the over 125-mile stretch between Carlsbad and El Paso on U.S. 62/180 where there are no places to get gasoline anymore (past the turnoff to the Carlsbad Caverns National Park).

I've lived in Albuquerque for 19 years, but I'm originally from southern Oklahoma (born in Marlow, went grades 5-12 in Ardmore, family's been in Lawton since '76).