On a side note, Ohio's average attendance this year was slammed by the three home CIT games. Lowered average by about 400 or 500 per game.
Those numbers for the CIT Jeff were actually the real numbers that you and I used to guess within a 100 or 200 as opposed to fabricated numbers that include some dubious season tickets at best. Regardless, we still have the largest crowds in the MAC. Having 15,000 students "on campus" certainly helps as well as a long tradition of local support. Kids grow up in Athens going to OU games as opposed to their local high school games.
Alan, I know we have had this discussion several times before, but the practice of announcing the number of "tickets sold" is commonplace in college athletics. At Ohio, it does include no shows for the Family Packs, but overall, what Ohio does is not way out of step with common practice. I remember that you have posted data on this before.
The attendance for the CIT games seemed to be very respectable for these post season tournaments in comparison to the rest of the nation, but by my eye count, still fell short of our typical Wednesday games.