re: Is this BCS title game the least anticipated in years?

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Other than the Rose, all the bowls have been pretty terrible on attendance.

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It's the sign of the times. People just aren't traveling to bowl games like they used to. And that goes for all schools. I've seen a number of posts on here attacking certain schools for the # of tickets they have returned and then the number of empty seats in certain games and comments made about that bowl screwing up with the matchup selection. It doesn't matter who the bowl would have selected. Odds are the bowl still would have had a ton of empty seats.

ESPN did a segment this morning on the NFL having to do the blackout extensions this week because of the home playoff team snot selling out. Buf for corporations buying the remaining tickets, blackouts would have been in place for some home playoff teams. As the ESPN guy noted, fans are staying home, watching the games in the comfort of their big huge flat screen and saving the $100's that it costs to attend these football games. So this is happening not just in college, but in the NFL too.