COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – Kickoff is Saturday, but the real game plan started months ago. Thousands of people and a mountain of supplies are behind every Aggie gameday.<\/p>\n
\u201cBetween our facilities, offices, and game management, we\u2019re working pretty much once June hits; it flips the football,\u201d said Erin Jones, the Texas A&M\u2019s Executive Associate Athletic Director for Game Management.<\/p>\n
Texas A&M kicks off its season Saturday against Missouri State. <\/p>\n
But this game\u2019s been in the works for over a month, with thousands of staff training behind the scenes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always joke in game management, like obviously there\u2019s always going to be something going on in the background, right? But as long as 100,000 fans don\u2019t know that it\u2019s happening, we\u2019ve done our jobs correctly,\u201d said Jones.<\/p>\n
Jones says they expect around 100,000 fans Saturday \u2014 including more than 40,000 students.<\/p>\n
\u201c41,000 students pull tickets, which obviously is unbelievable. I mean, that\u2019s larger than a lot of student populations at universities. So we\u2019re very lucky and blessed here that we can have so many students that want to attend those football games,\u201d said Jones.<\/p>\n
And they\u2019re feeding that crowd: 150,000 bottles of water and 40,000 hot dogs are stocked and ready to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have some new concessionaires and vendors. And so we have all those people in place as well, and they\u2019re ready to go,\u201d said Jones.<\/p>\n
Once SEC play heats up, Jones says Kyle Field\u2019s crew is ready for even bigger crowds.<\/p>\n
\u201cKyle Field, even on its smallest day, is going to have at least 75 to 80,000 people in it. I think we\u2019re prepared and we\u2019ll have our entries ready to go and, you know, leaving, make sure that they\u2019re fully stocked and overstocked for those types of games,\u201d said Jones.<\/p>\n
For those coming to the game Saturday, Jones says prices for many gameday favorites will be lower than last year.<\/p>\n
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