While the Gators prepared to battle the Crimson Tide in the Southeastern Conference Championship game, some UF students were battling a long line just to enter the stadium.
All 1,500 UF students waited in line to exchange their vouchers for tickets and enter the Georgia Dome on Saturday, some for about an hour.
UF students were required to present their Gator 1 Cards and another form of identification with their ticket vouchers to gain tickets and enter the stadium.
Justin Smith, a UF history senior, said he got in line at about 3:15 p.m. with about 20 people behind him.
While matching people's names to their vouchers and checking them off a list might have kept ticket scalping to a minimum, Smith said the overall effort seemed fruitless and slowed entry down to a snail-like pace.
He said the feeling of those around him was one of general frustration.
"We started chanting, 'This is bulls-,' and the whole line kind of agreed with us," he said.
Smith said he missed kick-off and the first five minutes of the game because of the delay.
Even stadium employees in charge of the ticket exchange were grouchy, he said.
"They were probably getting an earful from all of us," Smith said.
Smith said University of Alabama fans he saw got inside with no problem.
Steven Duva, a friend of Smith's who got in line around 2:45 p.m., said ID checkers were stringent in the beginning, but Smith said he was just waved in by the time he made it to the front of the line. Both Duva and Smith said they expected a set-up similar to basketball games, where Gator 1 Cards are swiped in via laptop.
Smith said any frustration died away once he got a ticket and put his head in the game.
"We got in, and Tebow was on the 10 and we scored," he said. "So that was the end of it right there."
The University Athletic Association could not be reached for comment over the weekend.
