Attendance?
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I took the liberty of counting section by section during the game. 26,532 by my tally.
Stadium reported just over 60k attendance. My observation was the stadium was roughly 3:1 ISU to WSU. WSU fans were mostly in one corner of the stadium, with the rest of it seeming to be primarily ISU. It sounded like a home game in there at times, we got so loud and rowdy.
Where National Park Service aerial crowd photos when you need them!
Just by watching which sections cheered on big plays by each team, it was easily 2/3 ISU, could have been 3/4.
An estimate prior to the game. Official attendance was 60k plus, and well over half looked to be Cyclone fans (announcers thought 2/3). I think it's safe to say that we brought 30k plus.
Iowa State had the largest crowd to ever watch a sporting event.
Sat in the corner. The West side was full the whole length top to bottom of ISU fans. The very upper corner had some high school halftime band kids. The South endzone was all ISU. There were other ISU fans scattered around.
30k is what I would guess.
Some of them would have been kids from my hometown. Hope the band from LeMars Gehlen had a fun time at the Alamo Bowl.
One thing that I thought was odd is that the FG nets are lowered by guys manually up in the roof rafters. They have to hold the cables and run the walkways to do it.
It was really hard to tell since both sides were red but walking around the stadium it seemed to be 3 or 4 to 1 cyclones. Walking around San Antonio before the game seemed to be 10 to 1 or more. Joked with many locals who would start a conversation by asking me if the whole state came down? Another popular joke was if the other team had showed up yet?