Bowl Attendance

[bag12day]

This is the one that shocked me the most , Bama and Michigan couldn’t draw 60k fans .

No Shock.... the bama folks are looking at TV on Dec 28 and Jan 13 hollering RTR.
Well Michigan fans they were busy looking up Heimlich directions for the inevitable Harbaugh big game choke.

 

[Rickyvol77]

I see no mention of the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, the ultimate destination in January....

lol i had to wait to add it

 

[Bob Neyland]

The bowl games don’t care what the attendance is. They are now used for tv content only, so if they can sell the ads .. they don’t care. Watch how they cover the stadium and almost eliminate sight lines into the crowd. Hilarious.

 

[WoodsmanVol]

I bet they'll be more selective and get a better match-up for that bowl next year. I watched some of the games this year but not as avid about it for some reason. Most of the stadiums looked half-empty and I found that strange. Very few of the games looked to be tightly contested and most were boring,imo.LSU vs. OU was a disappoitment too.

Big-screen TVs are taking over because streaming options and costs are flexible. And a whole lot cheaper than travel costs, hotel stays, and food costs and the like. Pretty soon we may be seeing only 15K-20K sized stadiums.

 

[rocky top buzz]

Gator Bowl ticket sales mattered to the Gator Bowl and the city of Jacksonville. Don't underestimate the impact of 40-50k people landing in your city for 2, 3 or 4 days, staying in hotels, eating in restaurants and shopping in retail stores. That is BIG money.

But you missed the context, I was responding to the guy who said bowls would go away because of lack of attendance. I am saying attendance does not correlate to their existence because bowls are huge TV money makers. I don't think anyone was talking about big traditional games like the Gator bowl going away, but how many hotels you think were sold for the Zaxby's bowl? The Frisco bowl? Those bowls disappear if attendance is the driving force.