Is this legit??

DudyDog · Jan 2, 2011

<div>Found this on another board. Thought I saw where we had around 68k at the game. USM should have felt right at home with their attendance.</div><div>
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</div>1. Rose Bowl 94,118 (TCU 21 Wisconsin 19)

2. Gator Bowl 77,497 (Mississippi State 52 Michigan 14)
3. Chick-fil-A Bowl 72,217 (Florida State 26 South Carolina 17)

4. Music City Bowl 69,143 (North Carolina 30 Tennessee 27)
5. TEXAS Bowl 68,211 (Illinois 38 Baylor 14)
6. Fiesta Bowl 67,232 (Oklahoma 48 Connecticut 20)
7. Capital One Bowl 61,519 (Alabama 49 Michigan State 7)
8. Outback Bowl 60,574 (Florida 37 Penn State 24)

9. Holiday Bowl 57,921 (Washington 19 Nebraska 7)
10. Alamo Bowl 57,593 (Oklahoma State 36 Arizona 10)
11. Sun Bowl 54,021 (Notre Dame 33 Miami(Fla.)
12. Insight Bowl 53,453 (Iowa 27 Missouri 24)
13. Liberty Bowl 51,231 (Central Florida 10 Georgia 6)

14. Champs Sports Bowl 48,962 (North Carolina 23 West Virginia 7)
15. Poinsettia Bowl 48,049 (San Diego State 35 Navy 14)
16. Hawaii Bowl 43,672 (Tulsa 62 Hawaii 35)
17. Vegas Bowl 41,923 (Boise State 26 Utah 3)
18. Meineke Car Bowl 41,122 (South Florida 31 Clemson 26)
19. Ticket City Bowl 40,121 (Texas Tech 45 Northwestern 38)

20. Independence Bowl 39,362 (Air Force 14 Georgia Tech 7)
21. Pin Stripe Bowl 38,274 (Syracuse 36 Kansas State 34)
22. Military Bowl 38,062 (Maryland 51 East Carolina 20)
23. Armed Forces Bowl 36,742 (Army 16 SMU 14)
24. Pizza Bowl 32,431 (Florida International 34 Toledo 32)
25. New Mexico Bowl 32,424 (BYU 52 UTEP 24)

26. New Orleans Bowl 29,159 (Troy 48 Ohio 21)
27. Humanitarian Bowl 25,449 (Northern Illinois 40 Fresno State 17)
28. Beef Bowl 20,017 (Louisville 31 Southern Miss 28)

MSUCosmo · Jan 2, 2011

That's interesting. Even though that Gator Bowl number has to be wrong, those numbers for the Capitol One and Outback aren't impressive at all. If I were Stricklin, I'd keep those numbers handy for future reference if/when we are 8-4/9-3 or better and getting passed up by the "big boys" for the better bowls again.

montgomeryso3 · Jan 2, 2011

The number for our game is wrong. The stadium's seating capacity is less than 75,000

MStateFan22 · Jan 2, 2011

Just found on SBnation "Furthermore, there was also a Gator Bowl attendance record set with 68, 325 people attending."

Incognegro · Jan 2, 2011

I remember looking it up before the game but still.. there's no way it could have been over 77,000. It just didn't look like it.

Incognegro · Jan 2, 2011

http://espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=310010130

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</div><div>Just scroll to the bottom. I still have a hard time believing it though..</div>

siofrelief · Jan 2, 2011

About a week before the game Gator Bowl was said to be just shy of announcing a sell out based on the ticket sales...

PBRME · Jan 2, 2011

That must be tickets sold and not actual attendance. There was no way there was more than 40,000 at the Liberty Bowl.

EAVdog · Jan 3, 2011

No way the Liberty Bowl attendance figures are right, that place was half full at best.

00Dawg · Jan 3, 2011

A bit more info, including the actual attendance number in print:
Article

Official capacity appears to be 76,867, but they can easily expand that as they did for last year's record-setting crowd (84,129). As I've said elsewhere, there were a ton of folks who were hanging out anywhere besides their seats, so while 68k seems high compared to what I saw, it's not astronomically so.

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