Sooner in Tampa
11/6/2013, 08:03 AM
Pretty surprising...and BTW...Forde picks BU to win by 18
Forde Yard Dash
(http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--forde-yard-dash--baylor-oklahoma-stanford-oregon-lsu-alabama-081933781.html)
As of Monday, the game was not sold out (2). Which is incredible until you remember that this is Baylor.
"We're going tarpless," quipped Bears coach Art Briles, reacting to the news that his school is removing the tarp that covers the South end of creaky old Floyd Casey Stadium. That will allow about 3,500 general admission tickets to be sold (http://www.wacotrib.com/sports/baylor/football/floyd-casey-going-tarpless-for-oklahoma-game/article_2afd6bec-eb5e-5a7e-ac29-07e64492d307.html), for the first time in a long time.
Still, this will be one of the smallest crowds Oklahoma plays in front of all season.
Baylor's lack of success over time is manifested in the school's traditionally small fan base – Floyd Casey has been filled up to or in excess of its listed capacity of 50,000 fans just five times since the stadium opened in 1950. Four of those came against Texas A&M and the fifth against Texas, all games in which fans of the visiting team undoubtedly ate up many of the tickets.
Despite the upturn in program success and the exciting style of play, Baylor home attendance hasn't even topped 47,000 since 2006. Not even Robert Griffin III's Heisman Trophy season of 2011 could sell out the joint. Even once.
Baylor is building a new stadium that is set to open next year. But with an enrollment of only 12,575 and a history of empty seats, the school is wisely reducing initial capacity to 45,000
Dash prediction: Baylor 49, Oklahoma 31
Forde Yard Dash
(http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--forde-yard-dash--baylor-oklahoma-stanford-oregon-lsu-alabama-081933781.html)
As of Monday, the game was not sold out (2). Which is incredible until you remember that this is Baylor.
"We're going tarpless," quipped Bears coach Art Briles, reacting to the news that his school is removing the tarp that covers the South end of creaky old Floyd Casey Stadium. That will allow about 3,500 general admission tickets to be sold (http://www.wacotrib.com/sports/baylor/football/floyd-casey-going-tarpless-for-oklahoma-game/article_2afd6bec-eb5e-5a7e-ac29-07e64492d307.html), for the first time in a long time.
Still, this will be one of the smallest crowds Oklahoma plays in front of all season.
Baylor's lack of success over time is manifested in the school's traditionally small fan base – Floyd Casey has been filled up to or in excess of its listed capacity of 50,000 fans just five times since the stadium opened in 1950. Four of those came against Texas A&M and the fifth against Texas, all games in which fans of the visiting team undoubtedly ate up many of the tickets.
Despite the upturn in program success and the exciting style of play, Baylor home attendance hasn't even topped 47,000 since 2006. Not even Robert Griffin III's Heisman Trophy season of 2011 could sell out the joint. Even once.
Baylor is building a new stadium that is set to open next year. But with an enrollment of only 12,575 and a history of empty seats, the school is wisely reducing initial capacity to 45,000
Dash prediction: Baylor 49, Oklahoma 31