I am still waiting on the reported attendance to the Gator Bowl and the Capitol One Bowl. I will update them as soon as they come available.
So far the GMAC Bowl still has the best % Capacity of all the Bowl games with 99.9%. The Outback Bowl came in at 99.6%.
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The Gator Bowl has now over taken the GMAC Bowl with 108.1% capacity.
Liberty Bowl reported attendance (tickets sold?) may have been 55K, but 'butts in seats' was 35K per the Memphis newspaper. What a joke the reported figures can be.
:rofl:
badgerwolf Wrote:Liberty Bowl reported attendance (tickets sold?) may have been 55K, but 'butts in seats' was 35K per the Memphis newspaper. What a joke the reported figures can be.
:rofl:
I am going by the reported official attendance in the box scores. :)
John -- No problem with your reporting the stats as released.
Just a jab at the Liberty Bowl for reporting attendance incorrectly; on purpose
I'd say the MAC bowls did very, vey well.
I find it odd that on the list you have John you have the Hawaii bowl at 25,000, yet the official athletic site for Hawaii has attendance at 29,000.
They also have no mention of the post game brawl on the Hawaii site.
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On the Houston site they have the attendance at what you posted, plus they have a mention about the postgame fight. I wonder why there is a discrepancy?
The Rose Bowl used to seat over 100,000. How and when did they change to 91,136?
John: I like your report. Any chance you could sort the list by attendance?
TJRocket Wrote:I find it odd that on the list you have John you have the Hawaii bowl at 25,000, yet the official athletic site for Hawaii has attendance at 29,000. They also have no mention of the post game brawl on the Hawaii site.
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On the Houston site they have the attendance at what you posted, plus they have a mention about the postgame fight. I wonder why there is a discrepancy?
I am going to side with Houston on this one. I saw some of that game and I could have sworn there was lest than 20,000 fans in attendance. I realize there is going to be discrepencies, but in this case Houston seems to be a bit more accurate.
Final 2003 Bowl Game Attendance Figures:
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