Attendance figures for the 4 P5 conference title games

[Chip]

Not so sure. Nc has a ton of cuse fans.

We'd show up ok (for Syracuse). Pitt would probably show up bad. Neutral fans would show up zero. Wouldn't look good.

Oh, and hell would have frozen over, which probably impacts travel.

 

[DoctorBombay]

I find the ACC # to be a pleasant surprise. GT doesn't travel well at all, and I figured FSU people would be saving their nickels for a potential twofer in LA and Dallas.

I didn't watch a second of the game, had other plans on Saturday night. Did the place look full? And for each team, or like a neutral fan kind of full.

I don't know about historically but Charlotte was full of Tech fans this past weekend. FSU was everywhere of course, but GT represented well.

 

[Scooch]

When the playoffs expand to 8 conferences should really consider having their champ games on campus at the higher seeded team.

Asking a fanbase to travel to neutral sites up to 4 times in a month is lunacy. Even the hoops tourney isn't that ridiculous.

 

[Btstimpy]

SEC: 73, 526(Capacity:71,228) 103% full
ACC: 64, 808 (Capacity: 73,298) 88% full
Big Ten: 60,229( Capacity: 67,000) 89% full
Pac 12: 45,618( Capacity 68,500) 67% full


Not bad for the ACC that it had the second highest attendance of the four conference championship games. The ACC had a successful regular season in college football this year.
1 team in the 4 team playoff
3 other teams in the top 21.
11 of 14 teams bowl eligible.

Along the same lines, I saw this on another board. Someone should let the execs at ESPN know that if they want someone to watch what they are broadcasting, they need ACC or SEC teams playing. Preferable get FSU or Alabama on the screen since the top six games featured one or the other. Maybe an ACC Channel would be a good idea for ESPN too.

 

[ImperialOrange]

Literally Laughing Out Loud when I saw this post...

Well done sir!!

Like me, Im sure you laugh about our lack of orange to keep from crying. After awhile it actually becomes funny. Perhaps we should reconsider our standing as a nike school. I'm sure adidas or underarmor can make orange. Matter of fact I know underarmor does.

 

[CuseOnly]

Like me, Im sure you laugh about our lack of orange to keep from crying. After awhile it actually becomes funny. Perhaps we should reconsider our standing as a nike school. I'm sure adidas or underarmor can make orange. Matter of fact I know underarmor does.

Orange pants are coming in 2015, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief. I actually like the uni's but they could use more orange, like the pants and possibly a jersey.

 

[dollarbill44]

Orange pants are coming in 2015, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief. I actually like the uni's but they could use more orange, like the pants and possibly a jersey.

I'll believe it when I see it. Apparently, Syracuse 's shade of orange no longer exists unless you are a fan looking for clothing, in which case there is plenty.
The person at Nike responsible for getting the orange dye must be related to the person at Five Guys who orders pickles.

 

[ImperialOrange]

I'll believe it when I see it. Apparently, Syracuse 's shade of orange no longer exists unless you are a fan looking for clothing, in which case there is plenty.
The person at Nike responsible for getting the orange dye must be related to the person at Five Guys who orders pickles.

Wonder where they find the orange dye for our hoops jerseys?

 

[Btstimpy]

ACC title game, you've come a long way baby!

LOL. The Florida venues at Jacksonville and Tampa didn't embrace the ACC Championship Game that much unless Florida State was playing in it. Those cities aren't really ACC towns. Charlotte on the other hand has a pretty good contingent of the public that buys tickets to the ACC Championship Game as an event regardless of teams because it is more of an ACC town. It's not enough to yet sell the games out, but it's a much better showing than this photo in Jacksonville.

 

[Lou_C]

I've always said, weather or not, it has to be in Charlotte. Because of the distances and lack of time involved to plan, you NEED the local area to embrace the game to some extent. It has to be at least somewhat of a big deal. You need to sell some tickets to people who just want to be there no matter who is in it, and the community to be able to hype the game.

North Carolina (and South Carolina, but it is closer) is the only place in the footprint that the ACC doesn't play second fiddle to the SEC or the NFL in mindshare. It's the only place where the ACC title game can be sold as the "big leagues".

If Charlotte ever becomes untenable, then it has to move on campus.

 

[KaiserUEO]

When the playoffs expand to 8 conferences should really consider having their champ games on campus at the higher seeded team.

Asking a fanbase to travel to neutral sites up to 4 times in a month is lunacy. Even the hoops tourney isn't that ridiculous.

on campus sites also help for the confs to get their chalk advanced.

 

[CusefanATL]

ACC title game, you've come a long way baby!

i think this is the same teams! but too lazy to look it up. 2008.

 

[Btstimpy]

i think this is the same teams! but too lazy to look it up. 2008.

This was the first ACC Championship Game in Tampa in 2008 between Boston College and Virginia Tech. The attendance was 27,360. This was after the poor attendance in Jacksonville for a few years before that. The ACC played one more Championship in Tampa in 2009. That was GT vs Clemson with an attendance of 42,815. It was then moved out of Florida to Charlotte, and it has had much better numbers since.

2010: FSU vs VT 72,379
2011: VT vs Clemson 73,675
2012: FSU vs GT 64,778
2013: FSU vs Duke 67,694
2014: FSU vs GT 64,808