Auburn has had struggles selling tickets as of late. I know immediately before the season opener you could still go on their website and purchase season tickets, and even still get tickets to the Iron Bowl.

The official capacity of Jordan-Hare Stadium is 87,451, and they really haven’t came close to selling out for the most part this year. Only the West Virginia game was there a sellout in terms of “official” attendance matching the stadium’s listed capacity, and in the other games it hasn’t been close. The “official” attendance was only 81,000 for the Louisiana Tech game, 85,000 for MSU, and 83,000 for Ball State. And that is with the Auburn athletic department obviously playing with the numbers. Keep in mind that the listed “official” attendance for the Kentucky game was 86,217, which meant that there were only about a thousand empty seats. The only way that is true is that if about six or seven thousand people left at halftime (or before).

It’s been an issue for Auburn for a while now. They generally sold out during the height of Tubby’s tenure, but that has been about it. They struggled to sell tickets through a lot of the 1990’s, and if I remember correctly they only sold out something like two games in 1993, even when they were going undefeated with a first year coach and zero games on TV because of NCAA sanctions.

I don’t get it, really, I mean I’m not trying to bash Auburn here because you would legitimately think they could fill it up with no problem. Either way, I’m just glad it’s not an issue for us.

…only because it was announced over the PA that Alabama had won.

Aubarn (AL) could win a game while Alabama loses simultaneously, yet they’d celebrate the Alabama loss rather than the AU victory.

…a lot of people prolly left because it was so freakin’ cold. That said, I still couldn’t believe so many people left BDS at halftime. The outcome was FAR from decided!