You must arrive a minimum of 6 hours before noon games and 12 hours before night games.
You must remain in your lot tailgating 12 hours after noon games and 6 hours after night games.
You must bring enough to eat and drink for your entire tailgating party plus 50% more to allow sharing
The atmosphere is pure hardcore tailgating complete with grills, microwaves, TV,stereo, tents, blowup tigers, flags refrigerators coolers and some cases private bathroom facilities.
You go in the stadium just to be in your seat before running down the hill then you go back and tailgate at half time. SO YES it is close