but out of the 24,000 this week 5 to 8 thousand of them will be Marshall fans. I believe Ohio has to give Marshall 5000 tickets plus another couple thousand probably bought em from the Ohio ticket office.
Last I saw Marshall is 7 point favorites.
I talked with my sales team "account rep" last week to order a couple more tickets to the game and learned that Marshall's sales are way below expectations. Apparently they were given 3,000 tickets but returned about 1,800 of them unsold. That's not to say that some Marshall fans won't be purchasing through Ohio...but it doesn't sound like a Herd invasion.
8K Marshall fans? 8K? Peden only holds 24K, you're saying 1out of every 3 people in Peden will be a Herd fan? Impossible. Some Herd fans tried to float that 8K number for 2011 and were using the number of kelly green shirts they saw as justification. OU has plenty of kelly green shirts in ciculation, I have a closet full of them.
I don't doubt Marshall will bring a good crowd, but when we're already packing in Peden as it is there just isn't 8K tickets available for non-Ohio fans to buy. And if there were we would have been sold out a long time ago. Its game week and we're still not sold out. Here's the attendance for every Saturday home game in Peden since 2011-
25,893- New Mexico St 9/8/12
25,542- Akron 10/13/12
24,511- N Texas 9/7/13
24,244- Marshall 9/17/11
23,673- Norfolk St 9/22/12
23,155- Gardner Webb 9/10/11
23,146- Ball St 10/15/11
20,044- Buffalo 10/6/12
17,155- Kent St 10/1/11
We're already at 95% to 105% capacity in most games without them, they'll bring a good crowd, but they aren't taking over our house.