Alright, I can't wait any longer. With student passes selling out in two hours today, my excitement level has reached defcon 1, and we're still 25 days out from the game.
We know the game is sold out. The question is: how big is the number going to be?
A key factor: the students have been given back section 110, which was taken away in 2015. However, I do not believe they have made more sports passes available this year because of that. They're just expecting a higher percentage of sports pass holders to use them every game and want to avoid overcrowding. I think it will actually cause attendance numbers to be less inflated because they won't have section 110's single game tickets to count in addition to all the student sports passes, which are counted in full every game.
The other question: how much red are we going to see? Public estimates were anywhere from 20,000 (probable) to 30,000 (no chance) Husker fans last time. FWIW, Dave Plati put the number at 18k. I'd guess we see about half as much red as we saw in 2019 on account of fewer seats being available because of the student section expansion and also the massive number of season tickets CU sold this year.
The attendance record since the Champions Center construction which removed 3,000 seats is 52,829 for the 2019 Nebraska game.
The all-time Folsom attendance record, which I don't think even the most creative accounting can reach, is 54,972 for the 2005 CSU game.
I'll start the bidding at 53,662.
We know the game is sold out. The question is: how big is the number going to be?
A key factor: the students have been given back section 110, which was taken away in 2015. However, I do not believe they have made more sports passes available this year because of that. They're just expecting a higher percentage of sports pass holders to use them every game and want to avoid overcrowding. I think it will actually cause attendance numbers to be less inflated because they won't have section 110's single game tickets to count in addition to all the student sports passes, which are counted in full every game.
The other question: how much red are we going to see? Public estimates were anywhere from 20,000 (probable) to 30,000 (no chance) Husker fans last time. FWIW, Dave Plati put the number at 18k. I'd guess we see about half as much red as we saw in 2019 on account of fewer seats being available because of the student section expansion and also the massive number of season tickets CU sold this year.
The attendance record since the Champions Center construction which removed 3,000 seats is 52,829 for the 2019 Nebraska game.
The all-time Folsom attendance record, which I don't think even the most creative accounting can reach, is 54,972 for the 2005 CSU game.
I'll start the bidding at 53,662.
. Pseudoephedrine can work in a pinch for a red-eye road-trip back to Omaha, right?
