Hosting a Playoff Game Without Students.

[JMSqb11]

Obviously games on Dec 20/21 would be during the Christmas break for UT students.
You have to wonder how many would stay in Knoxville to go to the playoff game.
Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that 5000 students do so.
If they didn’t use up their ticket allotment, what is left would be sold to the general public which makes for a little older (less loud?) crowd.

I haven’t heard or seen anywhere how many tickets are required to be given for the opposing team to sell.
Let’s just, for the sake of argument, assume that the opposing school gets 5000 and they sell them all.
And let’s assume we get one of the two night games (there is one night game on Dec 20 and one on Dec21 with the other two games at noon and 4pm on Dec21).
Let’s assume that the temperature for an 8pm at kickoff is between 35-40 degrees.

Now, for my question.
What will the environment be like ?
How loud? Like a typical SEC game against one of our rivals? Or louder?
Our fans will be all wrapped up in jackets and coats (hopefully Orange ones).
Clapping with gloves doesn’t make a lot of noise.
However, will we be all liquored up (think LSU Cajun level drunk) and be rowdy as drunken sailors screaming our voices raw?
Would it matter who we play? Would we be more fired up against Texas than, say, Indiana?

Oh well.
This is a great “problem” to have.
I am just so excited that we are RELEVANT again.
Thank you White, Heupel, Boyd, Donde.
Now just take care of business in Nashville on Saturday and then watch the selection show the following week to see who, when, and where we play.
This is fun, dammit! GBO!!

Wait are their people who honestly believe the student section wouldn’t be jam packed for our first ever playoff game?

 

[Vfl2407]

Wait are their people who honestly believe the student section wouldn’t be jam packed for our first ever playoff game?

No, it would be full just not necessarily with 20 year olds.

 

[dobre_shunka]

And many I live in the Knox metro area and will still be around

And those who aren't local live off campus now instead of dorms that close for Christmas break. They will have a place to stay in town

 

[PeacefulBuck]

This has also been a curiosity of mine ever since they released the CFP schedule. Schools in larger metro areas with large amounts of their student body being in-state (Ohio State, I assume Tennessee?) should be fine. I am fascinated to see how a school like Penn State does, it’s a ghost town in the middle of no where when students aren’t on campus.

 

[DougVol]

Obviously games on Dec 20/21 would be during the Christmas break for UT students.
You have to wonder how many would stay in Knoxville to go to the playoff game.
Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that 5000 students do so.
If they didn’t use up their ticket allotment, what is left would be sold to the general public which makes for a little older (less loud?) crowd.

I haven’t heard or seen anywhere how many tickets are required to be given for the opposing team to sell.
Let’s just, for the sake of argument, assume that the opposing school gets 5000 and they sell them all.
And let’s assume we get one of the two night games (there is one night game on Dec 20 and one on Dec21 with the other two games at noon and 4pm on Dec21).
Let’s assume that the temperature for an 8pm at kickoff is between 35-40 degrees.

Now, for my question.
What will the environment be like ?
How loud? Like a typical SEC game against one of our rivals? Or louder?
Our fans will be all wrapped up in jackets and coats (hopefully Orange ones).
Clapping with gloves doesn’t make a lot of noise.
However, will we be all liquored up (think LSU Cajun level drunk) and be rowdy as drunken sailors screaming our voices raw?
Would it matter who we play? Would we be more fired up against Texas than, say, Indiana?

Oh well.
This is a great “problem” to have.
I am just so excited that we are RELEVANT again.
Thank you White, Heupel, Boyd, Donde.
Now just take care of business in Nashville on Saturday and then watch the selection show the following week to see who, when, and where we play.
This is fun, dammit! GBO!!

Who says we are gonna host? We may be in Dallas or Athens

 

[stolitonic]

I think you underestimate the number of students who stay in Knox during most if not all of the breaks.

Once you get passed your freshman year, you probably move out of the dorms and have somewhat of a life in Knox outside of school.

While I was a bit older when I went back to UT, I never bothered going "home" (2 hours away) until Christmas Eve or the day before

 

[BigALWiLson]

Lol the revenue from Neyland alone makes it likely we get a home game.

 

[Dadof2Vols]

UT is 4 hours from our home. My son, will be going back just for that game at Neyland…..

if season ticket holders get their tickets, it will be a family affair as tickets and dinner for the first CFP game maybe what they get in their stockings 5 days early.