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Turnstile Tracker: College Football Bowl Game Attendance

The following chart details attendance figures for ’06-07 Division I-A college bowl games, with comparisons to ’05-06. There were 32 bowls this season, with 1.7 million people attending the games, up 19.4% from the 1.4 million that attended the 28 bowls last season. Attendance for the 27 games played in both seasons was up 6.0% (THE DAILY).

   
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BOWL
LOCATION
DATE
TEAMS
ATT.
TEAMS
ATT.
% +/-
San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia
San Diego
12/19
TCU-No. Illinois
29,709
Navy-CO St.
36,842
-19.4%
Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas
Las Vegas
12/21
BYU-Oregon
44,615
BYU-Cal
40,053
11.4%
R+L Carriers New Orleans (a)
New Orleans
12/22
Rice-Troy
24,791
So. Miss-Arkansas St.
18,338
35.2%
PapaJohns.com
Birmingham
12/23
So. Florida-ECU
32,023
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New Mexico
Albuquerque
12/23
New Mex.-San Jose St.
34,111
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Bell Helicopters Armed Forces (b)
Ft. Worth
12/23
Tulsa-Utah
32,412
Kansas-Houston
33,508
-3.3%
Sheraton Hawaii
Honolulu
12/24
AZ St.-Hawaii
40,623
Nevada-Central FL
26,254
54.7%
Motor City
Detroit
12/26
Mid. Tenn-Cent. Mich.
54,113
Akron-Memphis
50,616
6.9%
Emerald
San Francisco
12/27
FSU-UCLA
40,331
GA Tech-Utah
25,742
56.7%
PetroSun Independence
Shreveport
12/28
OK St.-Alabama
45,054
Missouri-South Carolina
41,332
9.0%
Pacific Life Holiday
San Diego
12/28
Cal-Texas A&M
62,395
Oklahoma-Oregon
65,416
-4.6%
Texas
Houston
12/28
Rutgers-KS St.
52,210
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Gaylord Hotels Music City
Nashville
12/29
Clemson-Kentucky
68,024
Minnesota-UVA
40,519
67.9%
Brut Sun
El Paso
12/29
OR St.-Missouri
48,732
Northwestern-UCLA
50,426
-3.4%
AutoZone Liberty
Memphis
12/29
Houston-South Carolina
56,103
Fresno St.-Tulsa
54,894
2.2%
Insight (c)
Tempe
12/29
Texas Tech-Minnesota
48,391
AZ. St.-Rutgers
43,536
11.2%
Champs Sports
Orlando
12/29
Purdue-Maryland
40,168
Clemson-Colorado
31,470
27.6%
Meineke Car Care
Charlotte
12/30
Navy-BC
52,303
N.C. State-So. Florida
57,937
-9.7%
Alamo
San Antonio
12/30
Texas-Iowa
65,875
Michigan-Nebraska
62,000
6.3%
Chick-fil-A
Atlanta
12/30
UGA-VT
75,406
LSU-Miami
65,620
14.9%
MPC Computers
Boise
12/31
Miami-Nevada
28,652
Boise St.-BC
30,493
-6.0%
Outback
Tampa
1/1
Tennessee-Penn St.
65,601
Florida-Iowa
65,881
-0.4%
AT&T Cotton
Dallas
1/1
Auburn-Nebraska
66,777
Alabama-Texas Tech
74,222
-10.0%
Toyota Gator
Jacksonville
1/1
WVU-GA Tech
67,714
Louisville-VT
63,780
6.2%
Capital One
Orlando
1/1
Arkansas-Wisconsin
60,774
Auburn-Wisconsin
57,221
6.2%
Rose Bowl presented by Citi (d)
Pasadena
1/1
USC-Michigan
93,852
Texas-USC
93,986
-0.1%
Tostitos Fiesta
Glendale
1/1
Boise St.-Oklahoma
73,719
Notre Dame-Ohio St.
76,196
-3.3%
FedEx Orange
Miami
1/2
Louisville-Wake Forest
74,470
FSU-Penn St.
77,773
-4.2%
Allstate Sugar (e)
New Orleans
1/3
Notre Dame-LSU
77,781
UGA-WVU
74,458
4.5%
International
Toronto
1/6
Cincinnati-W. Mich.
26,717
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GMAC
Mobile
1/7
Ohio U..-So. Miss.
38,751
Toledo-UTEP
35,422
9.4%
Tostitos BCS Championship
Glendale
1/8
Florida-Ohio St.
74,628
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NOTES: The Houston Bowl folded after the ’05 game. (a) = Due to Hurricane Katrina, the ’05 New Orleans Bowl was played at Cajun Field in Lafayette, LA. (b) = Formerly the Ft. Worth Bowl. (c) = Held at Chase Field in Phoenix in ’05. (d) = BCS Championship game in ’06. (e) = Due to Hurricane Katrina, the ’06 Sugar Bowl was played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.

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