OT: UCF Plates in Other States

[CBlackwellRN]

Hello fellow Knights fans! I was up in Savannah the last few days presenting at a conference and noticed one of the cars at my hotel had a Florida State University branded license tag; however, it was on a Georgia state plate. I am sure that is because there is a large demand for FSU tags in Georgia seeing as it is close to Tallahassee and there are probably a lot of FSU alums in Georgia. However, I have seen out-of-state University branded plates in other states as well. Does anyone know if any other state has a UCF branded tag available as their state plate? Just curious.

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Your Friend and Fellow UCF Knight,

Dr. Christopher Blackwell
UCF c/o '00, '01, & '05
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[Stormthecourt?]

The problem with getting the school tag in another state is you need about 5000-7000 people to sign up for that tag and prepay for it and then maybe the state will approve it and print them.

 

[CBlackwellRN]

Thanks Storm. I suppose we're a long way off from having that kind of out of state demand. But maybe we'll see it someday.

 

[SublimeKnight]

Georgia has (or had) a USF tag available, however I've never seen one on the road, only on the website.

 

[MechaKnight]

I live in Texas. We have UF and FSU license plate options, but no other Florida schools. According to the Texas DMV site there are 366 FSU plates and 735 UF plates registered.

The website says you need to pay an $8000 deposit to get a new specialty plate, but the deposit is refunded once 800 of them have been sold.

 

[cnsaguy]

Any state that allows another state's schools to be represented on their plates should be shot. I don't care how crappy your own state's schools are they should support them only.

 

[80'sKnight]

Originally posted by SublimeKnight:
Georgia has (or had) a USF tag available, however I've never seen one on the road, only on the website.

I looked on the Georgia specialty tag website and FSU is the only Florida U. represented. There's only a small handful of out of state U. available. I guess they dropped usf.

 

[SublimeKnight]

Originally posted by 80'sKnight:

Originally posted by SublimeKnight:
Georgia has (or had) a USF tag available, however I've never seen one on the road, only on the website.

I looked on the Georgia specialty tag website and FSU is the only Florida U. represented. There's only a small handful of out of state U. available. I guess they dropped usf.

I know there is also a UF one, because I've seen it on cars. Figures on USF. I very rarely see USF stuff on cars up here. Occasionally I'll see a UCF (probably 5:1 UCF:USF), but frequently see FSU/UF stuff on cars.

 

[80'sKnight]

What's the point of the damn things anyway? Why give the state more money? Sure, a small portion goes to the school, but wouldn't they get more by buying something (plate holder) directly from the university? Just asking, I have no idea how much goes to the Uni.

 

[FormerlyKnightInAtlanta]

Originally posted by 80'sKnight:

Originally posted by SublimeKnight:
Georgia has (or had) a USF tag available, however I've never seen one on the road, only on the website.

I looked on the Georgia specialty tag website and FSU is the only Florida U. represented. There's only a small handful of out of state U. available. I guess they dropped usf.

I moved from Atlanta back to Orlando last year after having spent 10 years in Georgia. They had UoF plates as well, at least at some point. I remember my cousin (a Florida grad) telling me about a big push by the Atlanta area UofF alumni chapter to get Gator plates, and sure enough I started to see them on the road after that. I don't know if you can still get them though.

 

[jetsaholic]

There's no UCF plate here in Virginia but there is, however, a ezu plate. Go fukcing figure.

 

[SublimeKnight]

Originally posted by KnightInAtlanta:

Originally posted by 80'sKnight:

Originally posted by SublimeKnight:
Georgia has (or had) a USF tag available, however I've never seen one on the road, only on the website.

I looked on the Georgia specialty tag website and FSU is the only Florida U. represented. There's only a small handful of out of state U. available. I guess they dropped usf.

I moved from Atlanta back to Orlando last year after having spent 10 years in Georgia. They had UoF plates as well, at least at some point. I remember my cousin (a Florida grad) telling me about a big push by the Atlanta area UofF alumni chapter to get Gator plates, and sure enough I started to see them on the road after that. I don't know if you can still get them though.

Still on their webpage. I wonder what the process is for a UCF one.

 

[80'sKnight]

I guess we're looking at different sites. Place I looked is below, guess I should expect 1 hand of gov doesn't know what the other is doing.

But if you do look on that site, a whopping $0 goes to FSU.

Initial cost: $80 plus applicable ad valorem tax.

Cost to renew annually: $55.00 plus applicable ad valorem tax.

Of the Initial $80 fees collected for the issuance of these tags, the fees shall be distributed as follows:

$20 Annual License Reg. Fee

$1 to the County Tag Agent

$59 to State of Georgia General Treasury

Annual Renewal:

$20 Annual License Reg. Fee

$35 to State of Georgia General Treasury


So I guess I should thank those stupid enough to get it, thanks for increasing the Georgia coffers.

This post was edited on 4/14 1:19 PM by 80'sKnight

Ga

 

[sideshow2313]

A printing company could make some $ if they made an athletic logo that covered the orange/Pegasus on FL tag.
Posted from Rivals Mobile

 

[Bob the Citronaut]

Originally posted by sideshow2313:
A printing company could make some $ if they made an athletic logo that covered the orange/Pegasus on FL tag.
Posted from Rivals Mobile

It would be illegal. I would have already done it mine, but it's not worth getting pulled over for.