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calling_the_hogs Wrote:Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile only seats 40,000....meaning that after you count the 2,000-3,000 locals/sponsors that attend the game... each team only had to bring about 18,000-19,000 fans to Mobile. They did that. Good for both of those teams.

The factor though is, SEC teams will send a lot more than 19,000 fans to a bowl game. We played Texas in the 2000 Cotton Bowl, in Dallas, and outnumbered their fans 2 to 1. We sent over 35,000 to Orlando for the Citrus (now Capital One) Bowl in 1998. Georgia fans sent 40,000 to New Orleans, etc., etc.

I understand your argument and your point. I sympathize with it. The fact remains that despite all you say about fan support, the fan bases in the BCS schools are much bigger, and the bowls recognize it and reward those teams more because of it...it fattens the wallets of the bowls themselves. That's a fact.

WPS

So true......

1997 Motor City Bowl
Marshall vs Mississippi
Attendance = 43,340
This was the smallest crowd in MCB history. The two largest were the two games Toledo played in:

2001 MCB
Toledo vs Cincy
52,449

2002 MCB
Toledo vs Boston College
52,911

I got this information directly from the Motor City Bowl website. In the case of this bowl, its wallet was fattened by the MAC against C-USA and the MAC against a Big East team that sent a couple thousand fans.

09-23-2003 08:35 AM

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