Bucket Game Crowd Size

[zeke4ahs]

i predict 35k based on how ticket prices have plunged to $30. sad but that's what i expect. I'll be there with my wife and two boys. let's goooo. biggest game of the year for the Hoosiers!

No way.

 

[zeke4ahs]

If you live in a dorm or greek you can't get in till Sunday. This will be one of the better attended Bucket games in a long time but still not full for a number of reasons outlined already.

Not true. Most frats and sororities are opening Saturday.

 

[zeke4ahs]

I thought the dorms stayed open for int’l kids and people who weren’t going home. I thought I remembered a handful of people like this.

Is what is it I’m just surprised.

There is one or maybe two dorms that stay open for international students.

 

[Hatchets7times]

The TaxSlayer bowl in JAX we had over 20K on hand and were still outnumbered 2:1 by TN fans. If we get booted from the CFP IU will be in a good bowl.

I wouldn't be out of my mind disappointed.
But the CFP would be a super bowl for Indiana..
Even though I believe in CCC. It may never ever happen again.

 

[YOTHN]

Your women are wimps. 😎

I say we fight em!

 

[Bowlmania]

I wouldn't be out of my mind disappointed.
But the CFP would be a super bowl for Indiana..
Even though I believe in CCC. It may never ever happen again.

Yes. People should not expect 1-loss seasons to be the norm. We could have more talented teams in the future that don't match this record.

This tournament is well within our grasp this year. I will be out-of-my-mind disappointed if we falter tomorrow and don't make the CFP.

Go Hoosiers!

 

[Courtsensetwo]

Not true. Most frats and sororities are opening Saturday.

I stand corrected. You are far better informed than I.

 

[iubhounds]

In Iowa tonight it was 20° at kickoff, with a 4th string QB playing against a 6 win Nebraska ... a FULL STADIUM

I don't want to hear any excuses not to have every seat taken tomorrow night for an 11-1 team so close to a 12 team CFP ... That's when we will find out if IU is a "football school". ... nothing else but a packed stadium tomorrow !!!!

No matter how good Coach Cig is ... 11-1 may never happen again ... the CFP might be a one time event for IU football. Just like good NFL players that played in the Super Bowl and thought they would make it back, never did ... you just don't know what will happen in the future of college football.

Even with the freezing weather I did not see anything that would slow down Rourke's passing game. Nebraska receivers were doing their normal dropped passes when wide open.

So will IU fans show up in force in cold weather and possible snow flurries?

 

[82hoosier]

48,000

 

[frikkenfrakken]

There have been many Oaken Bucket games on Thanksgiving Saturday. In fact I can't remember when they were not played on that Saturday. I know the students are gone but someone said housing, sororities and frats open Saturday morning so there is a possibility a lot of students will be back in time for the game. Will there will be the normal size student crowd? I wonder though about the crowd size. Even after winning, it's going to be cold, a night game, holiday weekend ... all good excuses for fans not to show up. Like the old days.

Ticket prices online trending in a way that there are going to be a lot of empty seats. Is that possible at 10-1 and a chance to pound Purdue? Will lack of crowd noise be a factor? After all, as bad as they are, the Boilees did score 49 against Illinois with a hellacious 2nd half comeback.

Personally I think IU covers the point spread and possibly doing that by halftime ... yet I still wonder about the crowd size.

The bucket game has only been played on the Saturday after Thanksgiving for 15 years. Before that, it was played before Thanksgiving.