This year's bowl attendance

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St. Pete 16k

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Attendance 15,717[2]

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Capacity 45,369 (1998)[1]
44,027 (1999)[2]
44,445 (2000)[3]
43,772 (2002–2006)
38,437 (2007)
36,048 (2008)[4]
36,973 (2009–2010)[5]
34,078 (2011–2013)
31,042 (2014–present)[6]
42,735 (including tarp-covered seats)

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The playoffs have rendered the games meaningless. Plus it's hella expensive just to go see a shitty glorified exhibition game. I'd rather spend my money going skiing and watching games on TV during the holidays.

The weather was shite in New Orleans Monday so the sugar bowl attendance doesnt really surprise me since it probably didnt get help from locals without a rooting interest.

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So many of these tickets are owned by sponsors and companies and lots of time are given out to people who dont lose anything by deciding not to attend if its inconvenient.

I didnt travel for the sugar bowl because I wasnt enthusiastic about the match up and I dont particularly like chocolate city.

People always respond "Well the bowls were meaningless before the playoffs!"

but the issue is that the existence of the playoff has drastically changed the public perception of the non-playoff bowls.

There's a way overemphasis on the playoffs in the media to the point nobody cares about anything else now.

It also doesn't help that bowl organizers don't seem to give a damn about attendance, overly expensive tickets and bad start dates/times, etc.

So the best-attended games were those within driving distance of the bulk of the teams' fans.

Shocking.

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Peach 76k
Music City 68,496
Texas 68,412

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