There Wasn't Much Of A Crowd At Wednesday's Sugar Bowl

Ticket prices should float according to popularity and desire for attending the game.

I usually attend but not on a Wednesday night. Though I get $ 10.00 tix the day of the game the problem is trying to plan ahead. Let’s say I want to go with a few people, the only way to get tix a month or so in advance is through the ticket brokers and they want $ 100.00 each that far in advance. The sugar bowl should sell the tickets themselves not through tix service companies. The upper deck should be $15.00 available months ahead

8pm kick on a New Years night sucks especially being on a Wednesday.

There are multiple reasons for declining attendance, many of which have already been mentioned. I know in Georgia's case this was their third trip to the New Orleans area counting last year's LSU game so a lot of folks opted to skip out for this one.

Just send the check. Thanks...

I mean, LSU did just route Oklahoma quite easily. Sort of set the narrative for SEC vs the Bigjoke conference.

Too many bowls and CFP making the bigger boy bowls meaningless, not to mention some top players opting out---too much money to fund the trip, including shakedown prices at the stadium---and hovering above it all, best seat is in your own home.

55,000 for this matchup seems okay. UGA was in it last season, and Baylor isn't much of a draw at all. I don't get how this is a big deal to some.

Superdome sits around 68k! I was there, and would say about 30k in attendance a 50/50 split between UGA and Baylor fans. I paid $6 for the ticket.

All I know is, the BCS didn’t have this affect on Bowls, but this current CFP is causing serious erosion.

This is some hardcore #fakenews reporting on the crowd. No one is saying the game was a sellout, but Jesus Christ, taking pics as soon as the press gets access is some bullshite.

NOLA is not the destination bowl game that it used to be. City it too unsafe, and the world knows it.

Yep, I heard that the Georgia fans didn't really care about the game since LSU kicked their butt and put them out of the national championship. Also, several players decided they weren't going to play. How sad.

That pic is clearly not during game time.

54,000 in 2017, 54,000 in 2013. Match ups matter. It’s Baylor, a Baptist school, NOLA is the City of sin, I’d be surprised if there were 10,000 Baylor fans there.

A mini-vacation in New Orleans is usually pretty enticing and people used to show up under the old format even when their team had no chance to be AP or UPI #1. Baylor’s religious background didn’t help. It’s funny that the Sugar Bowl Committee used to do whatever they could to not invite LSU to the game because they thought LSU fans would just show up for the game and then go home.

The bowl games were pointless before the playoff

The playoff has made the bowl games pointless.

*havent

Because UGA thinks they should be in the NC every year even tho have haven’t won one since Herschel/1980 and Baylor is Baylor. LSU would have packed out the Sugar Bowl.