Attendance at LSU game

[BamaDaddy]

Has anyone seen the official attendance for Saturday's game? I have seen something about 103,000+ but I have never known Bama to have over the official stadium capacity of 101,821. I know some schools over sell (like Florida, Michigan, and others), but have heard that it is illegal in Alabama because of fire codes, etc. to do that. Anyone know?

GREAT GAME TIDE!!!

 

[RTR91]

According to the game stats, the attendance was 101,821.

 

[Snuffy Smith]

According to the game stats, the attendance was 101,821.

If it is listed as more than that the Fire Marshall gets angry :biggrin:

 

[JustNeedMe81]

Of course it'll be the maxium number...

 

[BamaBuc]

UF is constantly putting out numbers in excess of 90,000, even though their Max is 88,548..
I know FL has fire code restrictions, so one could only presume the Gainesville Fire Marshall is looking the other way!
Heck I remember UT in years past having around 108,000 - 109,000 and their legal number is like 102,455.
I presume they don't have any fire codes there...

 

[ROTYDE]

I would guess over 102,000.

 

[bradley30]

What about the TV ratings?

 

[JBama_in_PCOLA]

I've been wondering about that myself!

What about the TV ratings?

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Schools count differently. We count paid rears in seats. UT, in order to stay ahead, after our last expansion, started counting everyone in the stadium - concessionaires, security, teams, staff, etc. They don't have as many seats as we...

 

[CrimsonHammer]

Schools count differently. We count paid rears in seats. UT, in order to stay ahead, after our last expansion, started counting everyone in the stadium - concessionaires, security, teams, staff, etc. They don't have as many seats as we...

They also sell whole posterior tickets by the single cheek amount of bench space.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

They also sell whole posterior tickets by the single cheek amount of bench space.

Yes, there's that too...

 

[Aledinho]

I always thought we ought to go to a square footage ticket exchange with Tennessee. say 25,000 sq ft = 10,000 tickets for the Vols at Bryant Denny and 50,000 tickets for Tide fans at Neyland Stadium

 

[selmaborntidefan]

My friend panned the entire stadium with his digital camcorder and we found one empty seat early on with tons of folks on the carousels.

 

[trenda]

My friend panned the entire stadium with his digital camcorder and we found one empty seat early on with tons of folks on the carousels.

Yeah, those carousels usually have a lot of folks on them for most, if not all, of the game. Especially during the big games.

 

[mittman]

My friend panned the entire stadium with his digital camcorder and we found one empty seat early on with tons of folks on the carousels.

I have done that a few times. The only seats I usually find empty on games like this are in the luxury boxes. The mega image someone posted bears this out. The place was packed.

 

[rtcjny]

I know that the guy who has tickets next to me did not come. It was two seats. I missed him but it was nice to have elbow room.

 

[BamaFan1961]

My friend panned the entire stadium with his digital camcorder and we found one empty seat early on with tons of folks on the carousels.

Everybody has to go pee every now and then

 

[92tide]

I have done that a few times. The only seats I usually find empty on games like this are in the luxury boxes. The mega image someone posted bears this out. The place was packed.

that image was cool. i found my uncle, my cousin and his son. my uncle was coming back from the head (at least that's my guess)

 

[bradley30]

I've been wondering about that myself!

I read earlier that it was over 11,000,000 viewers.

 

[JBama_in_PCOLA]

Yeah, I saw that LSU/BAMA was the highest rated game this season on CBS, and actually Wisconsin/Alabama was the highest rated on ABC.

I read earlier that it was over 11,000,000 viewers.