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75% of 35,000 isn't too glorious.

seems odd that UNL wasn't able to achieve 75%

seems odd that UNL wasn't able to achieve 75%

Lincoln ain't a big city. 

Even stadiums in Austin, Columbus, Ann Arbor, or Gainesville only have 100K fans 6-8 times per year and sit empty the other 357 days.  Why build stadiums at all if they're going to be idle 98% of the time?

Probably money.


Filled 6-8 times per year >>>>>>> filled once per year (roughly 6-8x as much money )

Filled 6-8 times per year >>>>>>> 50% full 6-8 times per year (roughly 2x as much money  )

It's cool this post needed to exist I guess.

75 percent of capacity or more, 2024:

Duke (75%)

Louisville (83%)

Boston College (90%)

Ohio State (101%)

Kansas (104%)

How the hell do you get over 100% - SRO,gate crashers,vendors & ticket takers?

I like how you continue to be deliberately obtuse and avoid the actual topic.  It seems to be your specialty.

College football is less popular in California than in other places, including but not limited to Texas.

Why?

It's what cost the PAC its conference.  That seems important.

Not important in a global macroeconomy kind of way, or in a poor people are starving kind of way, but the type of important that resonates on a message board dedicated to... college football.

You like this? Awww. 

But yes, my specialty is to look at something that seems to lack a bit of context and try to explore it. If the actual topic is why, I'd agree a part of it is that the fever is less strong than in some other place. But I think it jumps over a key aspect.

Brad laid it out. It's hard to build that kind of passion/fandom/what have you in cities like that. And because of the way California schools developed and are decentralized, all the big (and most of the small) schools at that level are in those places. That just is what it is. In addition to other limitations, Ca doesn't have the kinds of big central schools to generate that kind of popularity. 

You could turn up the passion to Georgia, Texas, Florida levels, and none of those schools will reach consistent UT/UGA/even UF levels. 

Wait, wasn’t the coliseum built for some kind of Olympic venue or something similar way back when?  Even if LA didn’t host the Olympics way back when maybe they just built it so it could be used as part of an attraction?  Also it’s perfectly reasonable to assume that if you’re LA you’d think you’d be filling the stadium on a regular basis. If not sporting events maybe concerts and other events.  What other stadiums existed in that time?