Attendance: Bowl Games vs State Championship games

[Ernest T Bass]

Texas State Championship attendance(10 games):

Class 3A Division 1 (Fri. Dec 9)
22,748

Class A Division 1 (Thur. Dec 15)
... 10,143

Class A Division 2 (Thur. Dec 15)
5,952

Class 2A Division 1 (Thur. Dec 15)
8,435

Class 2A Division 2 (Fri. Dec 16)
10,456

Class 3A Division 2 (Fri. Dec 16)
17,197

Class 4A Division 1 (Fri. Dec 16)
32,314

Class 4A Division II (Sat. Dec 17)
43,369

Class 5A Division I (Sat. Dec 17)
42,896

Class 5A Division II (Sat. Dec 17)
15,092

Total for 10 games
208,602

First 5 Bowl Games:

Idaho Potato Bowl
Ohio 24 Utah St 23
Attendance 28,076

New Mexico Bowl
Temple 37 Wyoming 15
Attendance 25,762

Military Bowl
Toledo 42 Air Force 41
Attendance 25,042


The 2011 Poinsettia Bowl
TCU 31 Louisiana Tech 24
Attendance 24,607

Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl
Marshall 20 FIU 10
Attendance 20,072

Total: 123,559

Just food for thought

[Ernest T Bass]

BTW, these are ticket sales numbers, not actually attendance numbers. The universities are on the hook for several thousands of tickets, so they get bought regardless. Anyone who saw the New Mexico Bowl knows that there were nowhere near 25,000 people there.