What was the attendance like today?

[Courtsensetwo]

For what it's worth, I found attendance figures from the '80s. Looks like the high-water mark was 1988. We had crowds of 50,000+ for all five home games that year. We were 8-3-1 in 1988, following an 8-4 season in '87, following a 6-6 season in '86.

Attendance still stayed robust the following few seasons despite a declining record, with several crowds over 50,000. We even drew close to 44k for a MAC team (Toledo). Mallory's team rebounded with a solid 8-4 season in 1993 but, surprisingly, attendance wasn't great that year, with only 34,000 for Wisconsin and 40,000 for Iowa.

This is my point, thanks for looking that up.

 

[What's the Deal]

The Wisconsin game in 1993 was a monsoon.