Got a recycled boarding position just now. Daughter was scheduled on a connection tonight to get to Indy for the CFP National Championship on Monday: ATL-TPA-IND landing at 11pm. The direct ATL-IND for today has been UNAVAILABLE for months, I assume University of Georgia folks with speculative bookings in case they made the championship. I've been checking frequently, and this morning all 3 fare buckets have availability: BS-1, Anytime-3, WGA-2. So I booked her with points 13K WGA, we're at less than T-6 and she got A-43.
Will be trying the same thing for her connection return at 6am TUE, trying to get her on the later direct.