Ahead of Tennessee’s first-round College Football Playoff matchup against Ohio State on Saturday, Volunteers fans had an elite troll for Buckeyes supporters.
The game will be played in Columbus at Ohio Stadium, but one Vols fan took the liberty of renaming the stadium “Neyland North” on Apple Maps, suggesting Tennessee fans are going to fill the stadium so much that it will feel like Neyland Stadium in Knoxville.
Though it might be extreme to suggest Tennessee fans will outnumber their Ohio State counterparts on Saturday, there will certainly be plenty in attendance.
Per the Knoxville News Sentinel’s Allison Kiehl, StubHub said that buyers from Tennessee account for 37 percent of tickets sold on the site compared to 34 percent from Ohio.
Kiehl also reported that 42 percent of tickets sold on SeatGeek have gone to Tennesseeans and just 23 percent have gone to Ohio residents.
The ticket sales report comes after Ohio State athletics director Ross Bjork asked Buckeyes fans not to sell their tickets to “rabid” Tennessee fans.
“What we need Buckeyes to do is wear scarlet (and) don’t sell your tickets, because Tennessee fans, they’re rabid fans,” Bjork told The Fan 97.1’s “Morning Juice” (h/t 247Sports’ Ryan Callahan). “They’re going to try to invade ‘The Shoe,’ so let’s make sure we don’t have as much orange in there as people think. I think it’s just going to be an awesome atmosphere.”
Of course, Ohio State has the advantage of season-ticket holders and student tickets, but the numbers from StubHub and SeatGeek indicate there will be plenty of Buckeyes fans in attendance this weekend.
The No. 7-seeded Vols are playing in their first College Football Playoff and will have to get past a road battle to punch a ticket to the quarterfinals against top-ranked Oregon.
The No. 6 Buckeyes come into the matchup on the heels of an upset loss to rival Michigan at home, which should boost the Vols’ confidence.
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