We're about to lose the attendance record

for this to happen.  More of a stunt than anything. Suprised DB didn't thik of it first.

Tennessee can't sell out Neyland anymore. How are they selling 150K tickets for a game in the middle of nowhere?

Lose the attendance record because a game is played in a place that's not even a sports arena? Fine, whatever.

Secondly, this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. You won't even be able to see any of the players!

Son of a bitch. I officially hate both teams now. Maybe if they crater bad enough on the next few years, no one will show up.

It's sad it has come to this. But there is only one thing left. Win the whole, fuckin' thing.

Indy (capacity 257,325)

We'll still have records 2-∞

this is the worst idea ever.  9/10ths of the fans won't notice the difference between halftime and game action.

Michigan will have a game on the moon this century. Anyone with a telescope and a ticket will be able to watch.

I think this has been floated around for a long time, but I believe that the track owner - at some point in the recent past - offered each team something like $15-$20 million EACH to play this game there. It might have even gone as far as a fairly organized plan to remove the garages and basically level the infield temporarily in order to accommodate the field. 

The seats would be terrible for football, but watching Denard run around the track every minute would be fun.

Fucking students fault

I mean, why not just hold the game on the national mall and claim everyone in DC is attending the game?



This is officially dumb.

Seriously, they can hoot and holler about "We got dat attendance record ya'll!" but will anyone be able to tell you what happened in the game? Nyet

Also, if both teams continue to be 6-6 type outfits, will anyone care?

"We're here live in front 150,000 fans and 20,000 TV viewers...."

Some one will make that happen.

Given the shear number of beer coolers that litter the stands at such events, this whole thing could break Ohio's "cooler pooper" record at the same time.

I don't understand how some of you are calling this a bastardized record, when we brag about The Big Chill setting the record for a hockey game despite rhe fact that I'm pretty sure The Big House isn't a hockey venue. we should respect the record for what it is (unless of course there are like 30,000 empty seats, in which case that would be kind of pathetic)

The game takes place in a wall-less field dubed "Open Earth Stadium." Stephen Ross purchases all the admissions for a penny a each and "donates" them to the global population population.

Boom!

Offical attendance over 7 billion, the game makes 70 million plus at the "gate,"  and the band still isn't invited as a cost-savings measure.

Michigan and ND play their next game in the Grand Canyon. 

They better hope both teams are any good by then or there's no way they'll sell out. 

Not to nit pick, but I think the title is a little misleading.  We're still 3 years from losing the record....title makes it seem like its gonna happen this weekend.

That's gonna be 150-160k worth of people watching shitty football.

Good. I also hope someone builds a bigger stadium than ours. 

Hell with it.  We need to go play here now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strahov_Stadium

They'll have to tear down the video board in the center

It will be a nice footnote to their 3-9 seasons.

Who wouldn't want to drive way out of their way to sit over 100 yards from the field to watch the vols lose squinting through binoculars?

The view is going to be horrendous. From front row to front row, it's roughly 600ft wide at its smallest. With a field that is 160ft wide, the closest you'd be to the sideline would be 220ft, assuming they center the field and you're sitting in the front row.

If they want people to actually see the game, they can put up a wall of massive TV screens all around the oval and set another record.

Also, best obstructed views EVAR.

I doubt they will get 120000 fans to go to the game. Really depends on the ticket prices

Michigan State was always rumored to be going hard after a game like this at MIS about 5-10 years ago, if memory serves. Seemed to come up just about every year.

Honestly, this record doesn't mean much. Let 'em do it.

insert any southern joke you want here. I've never met so many......unaware to be nice fans of a team the Va Tech fans here in VA. they will travel to apart of a gimmick. Tennessee speaks for itself, they suck and fill seats still.

It might beat the record, but that will be a god-awful place to watch a football game. With how far away the field will be from the stands, no one will be able to see anything. Especially if you're sitting in the "endzone" seats.



Still, if they want to do, let them have at it. The record was bound to be broken eventually. I could see by 2020 that Texas, not wanting to be outdone, schedules a game with Bama to be played at Tiananmen Square, with a world record crowd of 500,000 spectators.

If you have to go off campus to set some type of record, you are admitting that you are losing the attendance battle for largest stadium capacity in college football. The truth simply remains, by objective standards that more people have watched Michigan football on television, in person and historcially since the onset of college football. These facts can all be verified by the College Football Warehouse, and while promotions are good for college football, trying to "Keep up with the Joneses'" is not necessarily a good thing.    ^Take Neyland Stadium, for instance.  TN is traditionally one of the top ten programs in the country; tenth to be exact. But the look of their stadium in their race to displace Michigan as the largest stadium in the U.S., makes it look like a collection of lean-tos. This is evidenced immediately upon viewing. The vision of Yost and his incredible mind to even verbalize in the 30s that "one day there will be a collection of highways running throughout this state and country that will allow people to come to what now is knowm for acre upon acre of cornfields to watch college football probably seems imaginable even to you," addressing the reporter questioning him about the size and pre-design for future expansion, is just one of the many things separating Michigan from the norm. It is not that we are better, moreso, I think, that we were blessed with people who imagined things far greater than  what they were now seeing.    ^ I will be completely honest with many of you on this site. As I sat in Vietnam, fortunate enough to have taken high school typing because I was a hound, I never imagined my job, then known as simply as clerk-typist, would someday be replaced with the job title systems automated clerk. And then later with that damn invention of Al Gore's - yeah right - we were the first, in the federal government, because it was designed by the DOD to daily use the www.  About a year later, after introduced to every one in the world, I would go home and my son, then a junior high student would teach me things I would never have thought of simply because he was raised in the computer generation that 90% of you belong to.  Relevancy is everything, and when you show me a man that will allow 115,000 to be able to watch, not just attend a football game,  and did so in the 20s of the last century, while allowing for upwards of 15,000 more my curiosity and respect might be piqued. Inasmuch as there is no other being, further needn't be said.

When the WR's run routes, will they only make left turns?

In all honesty this seems like a lame game to watch.

we never really had the record if crowd estimates from the early 20th centurty are accurate where several games, mostly involving the armed forces or Notre Dame or both, drew 120,000+ crowds.

Bristol is going to be awful as a football stadium.

Big deal . . . we'll still have the largest crowd in an actual football stadium.  (But what is the deal with Tennessee and their obsession with surpassing us?)

1/4 mil 2020 chickens vs u of m. Michigan motor speedway. Folding chairs everywhere and hordes of people peeing standing up.

Wouldn't really bother me. It means more to say we have the biggest stadium. Everyone hears about that every Saturday. Largest football crowd ever is something you only hear about if you're a 4th grader and bought the Guinness Book of World Records through your monthly book order.

http://www.pittalks.com/2013/03/12/the-forgotten-game-bristol-motor-speedway/

Billy Ray Barnes who played in that 1961 NFL preseason game said, “The crowd was good, but it felt like a practice. The stands were so far away from the field it was hard to get into it. We couldn’t even hear the fans cheering until we were leaving the game.”

they're having a race. The normal morbid desire to see a crash will be heightened by the possibility of seeing a spinning, out of control Jeff Gordon take out half of Tennessee's team in the infield.

Tennessee is determined to get us back for the Woodson Heisman, even if it kills them.  Or blinds their fans.

We'd have the *record still.

* - highest attendance for a game people actually cared about

Part of me is like awh, man. Then i console myself with the fact it's not in a football stadium. Put an asterisk on it.

Now it your time. Now is the time you say F**k it and blow the damn world away. It's time to truely conquer space. 350,000+ person stadium placed in orbit around the earth. Sure, things like "Gravity" might matter, but damnit man, you have engineers paying YOU! 

So the new attendance record for a college football game, will be at a race track. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

That still doesn't change the fact that we do and always will have the largest football stadium.

The sight lines are just going to be terrible. I don't think people realize how small a football field is compared to the infield of the track.

Neyland Stadium ‏@Neyland_Stadium 1h

Neyland Stadium compared to Bristol Motor Speedway. pic.twitter.com/i7HfZGKPZs

is reduce the seat size at the Big House in half, allow only really skinny people in (waist less than a 22) we could have easily 175,000. Plus the additional revenue generated in seat licenses and ticket sales would greatly help our financially strapped institution.

We are Michigan fergodsakes!!!!