re: How many consecutive games has LSU sold out for football?

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well i mean ole miss hasn't sold out season tickets yet this year and are still up from season ticket sales last year by 2k people, so let's not pretend ole miss has been packing the stands. also, the nutt years were, what, 3 years ago. that's pretty recent. glass houses and shite. attendance has been a nationwide problem that's only getting worse with increased coverage on tv. it's expensive to take an entire family to every home game when you can watch every single game at home. everyone doesn't have that kind of disposable income, right now especially. it's not like the economy is booming

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I agree with all of this. I will say, though, that Ole Miss should have a lower attendance than LSU for a couple of reasons:

1. Baton Rouge has a population of 230,000 compared to Oxford's population of 20k on the dot. That's including the 10k growth since 1990. And Oxford doesn't have any Ole Miss cities close by. Memphis a little, but majority of that population could never afford to make that trip. BR has New Orleans(350k+), Lake Charles(80k), and Lafayette(120k) all within an hours drive. Ole Miss getting 60k fans in that stadium is actually pretty impressive.

2. We split Memphis, MSU, and USM in Mississippi. ULL takes away a good portion of fans, but they don't keep LSU fans from attending Death Valley.

This thread is beating a pointless matter, but I'm fine with OM pulling in 60k a game. I was very fortunate to be able to attend every home game growing up(raised in Alexandria), but I know not very many people can make a 12 hour round trip on weekends to see a 3 hour game.