Once again, the day of reckoning has arrived.

The campus has been prepped. The stadium has been polished until it shines. The tailgaters have already started pitching their tents.

It’s Bama Eve.

Trying to find a student ticket to the Bama game is a bloodbath. We’ve been having bidding wars on Facebook and meeting strangers in secluded locations with fistfuls of cash like a bunch of tweakers looking for a fix. Nothing like a good old-fashioned ticket scalping to turn friends into enemies and enemies into people we’d like to brain with a textbook next time we see them in class.

If you didn’t have the luck of getting your hands on the hottest ticket in town, chances are you’ll be catching the game on TV. Whether it’s a friend’s house with a platter of wings or a bar with beer on tap, if you’re an LSU fan with a pulse, you’ll be there.

LSU football is one arena where typical standards of human behavior don’t seem to apply, but when you step out of Tiger Stadium and into somewhere less full of 92,000 screaming fans, there are a few things to take into consideration. Not rules, but guidelines, really. LSU football brings out the best and the worst in people, and there’s no more cataclysmic event than a home Bama game.

In this video are a few suggestions for how to avoid being That Guy when you’re watching the game with other people — by That Guy I mean the one everybody quietly hates but smiles politely at because he seems slightly unhinged and they don’t want to wake up to any broken windows or dead animals in their beds. Or, you know, just the jerk everybody wishes wasn’t there. You never, ever want to be That Guy. (Obviously That Guy is intended as a gender neutral term, although I would venture to say that most of the most egregious acts of That Guy-ness are committed by actual guys.)

I don’t want to spoil too much about what’s in the video, but let’s just say I’d rather not have a repeat of last year’s infamous Krystal Burger incident.

I’ve put together a purple drink to get your team spirit on, although I would also suggest adding grenadine to just about any clear cocktail and calling it Tiger Bait.

TIGER WATER

2 parts Ocean Spray sparkling cranberry juice

1 part Smirnoff raspberry vodka

1 part Dekuyper blue curacao

1 part Dekuyper peach schnapps

BONUS DRINK: THE SABAN SPECIAL

1 vial of Nick Saban’s tears

Don’t drink it. Save it forever. Wear it around your neck. That stuff is precious.