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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 1488399, member: 628"]
Fair enough, we just disagree.  I don't believe that this year a 5-0 SU team with a record built on cupcakes would draw 42K+ for Pitt.  I suspect that hypothetical team and the 4-1 SU team we're likely to be won't draw much differently.

FWIW, I'm pretty confident in my belief because I've seen it play out over and over again at SU.  In 1991 we opened 4-0 (sound familiar), lost to a loaded FSU team down in Tallahassee, and returned home to play East Carolina... in front of 37K fans.  Do you think that if we had played Florida A&M and were 5-0 instead of 4-1 we would have drawn 47K?  There's no reason to think that.  Why?...

In 1998 we opened to a sell-out against Tennessee and then went to Ann Arbor and whomped the defending national champs.  We returned home the next week to a crowd of 42K against Rutgers.  At that point SU was being hailed as still being a national title contender despite the 1 loss, and had a legit Heisman candidate, and we still had 8K empty seats because we were playing a dog opponent.

These days we haven't been in the top 25 in 14 years and have no starts remotely approaching what we had back then, but we're thinking a 5-0 team would fill the Dome against Pitt?  SU fans want wins, but they also want credible wins.
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