Number of OU fans at game

#1
A

austin_vol

Well-Known Member
Joined
Sep 2, 2014
Messages
1,128
Likes
1,298
#1
Is anyone worried about the number of OU fans that will be at the game? Seems like they have flooded downtown area. I saw where they sold out 7500 tickets and many more have bought online.
 
#3
#3
They'll probably have between 8-10K. About what most good SEC teams bring in.
 
#4
#4
Eh. They'll have 10k or so. That's normal for a marquee matchup.

Better than Alabama playing a neutral site game in Neyland every year since 2008.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 6 people
#5
#5
Christian Lowe said:
Eh. They'll have 10k or so. That's normal for a marquee matchup.

Better than Alabama playing a neutral site game in Neyland every year since 2008.
Click to expand...

For the record, the bama game last year was actually about 80% Tennessee fans. Much better than previous years.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2 people
#9
#9
The answer to how many OU fans will be here is relative to how many UT fans sell their tickets. This is the softest fan base in the country. Ask Bama fans.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 8 people
#10
#10
doctorchoice said:
I bet its closer to 20 or 30 thousand. There may be a big red splotch over our checkerboard.
Click to expand...

There's no way that's the case. That would require them to accumulate 15k-20k tickets over their allotment, there's not that many floating around. If 20k, let alone 30k, end up in there we should close the gates forever because our fans don't deserve a team.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 18 people
#13
#13
I'd say 10,000 max as well. Sooner nation travels well, but the prices for this game are high and will probably discourage quite a few from attending.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#14
#14
We'll see what the final number is. I may be over extrapolating from anecdotal evidence I have seen on twitter. But the number will certainly be more than the Florida game last year. It might have been a better idea to checkerboard Neyland against South Carolina or Georgia.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2 people
#15
#15
Meh, I went to Norman last year and there were a lot of Vol fans there, didn't effect their striping much so I doubt they have much effect on the checker board.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#16
#16
I mean, there's no evidence that they have over 5k. No one has seen more than a couple hundred to a thousand down town. There's no way there's 10k Sooners fitting in market square haha
 
#18
#18
Thinking about the Trail of Tears, I'll bet a segment of OU fans are just over the mountains at the Cherokee casino... greeting relatives and plotting revenge!
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#19
#19
I've heard it could be uproots of 20-30 thousand. Won't mess up the checkerboard, but with the hype around the team, and being a top 25 traditional power matchup, this might be the most traveling Sooners for a road game ever. The whole "Booooooomer" and "Soooooonneer" thing will get old quick, too.
 
#20
#20
I don't know for sure, but my guess is that no tickets were returned. They were only $105 so not even as expensive as texas tickets. There will be more fans than most who post on this thread want. I'm here because I have wanted to see Neyland since the 70's. I am puzzled as to why most posters on this site have such contempt for Oklahoma and our fan base. It might be that you don't realize how condescending most of the posts are. All fan bases have their fare share of young caustic posters, but very few show any respect for Oklahoma football or their fans. I am obviously not a young buck if I remember Johnny Majors coaching Tennessee. If I had not come to Volnation I might still have my warm fuzzy feeling about coming here, but I did, so I don't. Regardless of the outcome of the game, I think I may have lost the only sec team that didn't turn my stomach.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2 people
#22
#22
BruisedOrange said:
Thinking about the Trail of Tears, I'll bet a segment of OU fans are just over the mountains at the Cherokee casino... greeting relatives and plotting revenge!
Click to expand...

I bought a bottle of Sprite before the game last year and didn't open it till the 2nd quarter. It exploded all over me and an Indian woman in front of me. Her husband lost it on me, thought I was gonna get scalped right there in the stadium.
 
#24
#24
Snrynkee said:
I don't know for sure, but my guess is that no tickets were returned. They were only $105 so not even as expensive as texas tickets. There will be more fans than most who post on this thread want. I'm here because I have wanted to see Neyland since the 70's. I am puzzled as to why most posters on this site have such contempt for Oklahoma and our fan base. It might be that you don't realize how condescending most of the posts are. All fan bases have their fare share of young caustic posters, but very few show any respect for Oklahoma football or their fans. I am obviously not a young buck if I remember Johnny Majors coaching Tennessee. If I had not come to Volnation I might still have my warm fuzzy feeling about coming here, but I did, so I don't. Regardless of the outcome of the game, I think I may have lost the only sec team that didn't turn my stomach.
Click to expand...

And your smartasses on here have done the same for us. They're not representative of what I witnessed in Norman last year, unless everyone put on a facade. However, I love how an opposing fan comes on our board to tell us how wrongly we've "behaved" and then proceeds to do the same thing.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: 18 people
#25
#25
There have been a good number but I think most will be in specific sections.
 
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

VN Store



Back
Top