Tuesday, January 01, 2019

The Outback Bowl is a pretty good bowl. New Year's Day bowl. Payout is pretty good. And today they had two pretty good teams, #18, 8-4 Mississippi State from the SEC and 8-4 Iowa from the B1G. And they had a good game which Iowa won 27-22. What they didn't have was people interested in attending. 40,518 turned out in massive Raymond James Stadium, home field of Manchester "Buccaneers" football franchise. Ray Jay seats 65,618. It was 62% full. 38% empty. It was the lowest attendance in the 33 year history of the game.