re: How realistic is the idea of playing a game to a 1/4 capacity stadium?

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LIterally no university wlll do this.

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Most universities don’t even give all their students tickets to games, it’s not a bridge too far for schools to say this season alone they’re not selling student tickets due to inability to police those crowds and in exchange not charge an athletics fee.

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Yeah, that ain't happening either.

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Excluding bands will be the first and easiest thing to eliminate.

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Nor would UGA sit still and let this happen on 9/19.

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The conference as a whole will agree to waive visiting allotments If it means more opportunity for individual schools to appease their own donors. UGA could be pissy about 9/19 but you’re fooling yourself if you don’t think Bama would prefer to have 25k tickets to give to their 25k top donors for that game. UGA will fee the same for the Auburn game a couple of weeks later.

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Not enforceable if 25,000 fans decide not to. No university has the manpower.

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It’s absolutely enforceable with a small crowd spread throughout the stadium. Most schools manage bigger crowds at spring games.

To be clear, I hate all of this and I think it’s going to take the shine off the season if this happens (CFB games without students and bands and crowd noise is hardly CFB) but when you have reduced supply, the first people athletic programs are going to take care of are the folks writing the checks. This has nothing to do with what might be right or good and has everything to do with staying afloat fiscally (especially if schools have to issue refunds for season tickets they can’t honor)