So I was looking back over the different bowl games today with a co-worker. We were discussing which games really caught our interest and which ones were duds. Seeing that we are in Ft. Worth we bowl paid attention and loved the competitive Rose bowl. We also thought the OSU/Arkansas game and Florida/PennSt game were worth the watch.
Then we got talking about attendance and this is where we were amazed at how poorly the games were attended. Below is a graph of the games for this past bowl season (capacity and actual attendance.)
Interesting fact is that the Texas 5A Div 1 high school championship game had 43,321 in attendance at JerryWorld - which is great than 16 of the 35 bowl games.
I got the list from Helmet Stickers at http://helmetstickers.blogspot.com/2011/01/2010-2011-bowl-attendance-figures.html.
Bowl |
Attendance |
Capacity |
New Mexico Bowl |
32,424 |
38,634 |
uDrove Humanitarian Bowl |
25,449 |
33,500 |
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl |
29,159 |
72,968 |
Beef 'O' Bradys Bowl St. Petersburg |
20,017 |
42,735 |
Maaco Bowl Las Vegas |
41,923 |
36,800 |
San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl |
48,049 |
71,294 |
Sheraton Hawaii Bowl |
43,673 |
50,000 |
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl |
32,431 |
65,000 |
AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl |
39,362 |
53,000 |
Champs Sports Bowl |
48,962 |
70,000 |
Insight Bowl |
53,453 |
73,379 |
Military Bowl |
38,062 |
45,596 |
Texas Bowl |
68,211 |
71,500 |
Valero Alamo Bowl |
57,593 |
65,000 |
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl |
36,742 |
32,000 |
New Era Pinstripe Bowl |
38,274 |
54,251 |
Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl |
69,143 |
69,143 |
Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl |
57,921 |
71,294 |
Meineke Car Care Bowl |
41,122 |
73,778 |
Hyundai Sun Bowl |
54,021 |
51,500 |
AutoZone Liberty Bowl |
51,231 |
62,380 |
Chick-fil-A Bowl |
72,217 |
71,228 |
TicketCity Bowl |
40,121 |
92,100 |
Capital One Bowl |
61,519 |
70,000 |
Outback Bowl |
60,574 |
65,857 |
Progressive Gator Bowl |
77,497 |
84,000 |
Rose Bowl |
94,118 |
92,542 |
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl |
67,232 |
72,200 |
Discover Orange Bowl |
65,453 |
75,192 |
Allstate Sugar Bowl |
73,879 |
72,968 |
GoDaddy.com Bowl |
38,168 |
40,646 |
AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic |
83,514 |
80,000 |
BBVA Compass Bowl |
41,207 |
71,594 |
Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl |
41,063 |
41,915 |
Tostitos BCS National Championship Game |
78,603 |
72,200 |