Is the Sugar Bowl struggling?

Since it is one of the semi-finals this year, it will probably sell out. I believe they are struggling in the off years.

There is always a push to get people there. They have a dedicated committee and all. That really isn’t abnormal.

Let’s be honest here, it’s struggling because of the cesspool that it’s located in.

I think the BCS bowls are the ones that got fricked over most in the playoff format. Yes you get the semifinal but nobody cares in the "off" years when in the past those were probably guarenteed sellouts every year.

They should be fine as of next year. It’ll be a playoff game every year.

It’ll be interesting seeing the NY6 bowls fight to keep those games since everyone else will want to move the quarterfinals to campus.

Bowl games in general have struggled for the last 20+ years. The BCS hurt all the good bowl games that weren't the top 4 (peach, cotton, capital one), the playoff hurt the 4 bcs games that aren't in the playoffs each year.

Next year the good ones should start getting more traveling fans for the larger playoffs, but we will have to see how well fans travel for a first round playoff matchup if they need to save up for later rounds. And I would think all the bowls that aren't in the playoffs are going to start hurting even more.

This is part of the issue with taking the local ties out of a bowl.

SB did well for decades because having a SEC team as an anchor meant people in the area who would travel and attend.

Best attendances in the past 30 years tended to be title games and whenever LSU was playing. Other close teams like Ole Miss and Arky drew well too.

Worst non-Covid attendance tended to happen when schools from long distance came to play and there wasn’t much local interest. (Oklahoma-Auburn in 2017, Louisville-Florida in 2013, Georgia-Baylor in 2020)


There is only so much you can do when they aren’t a playoff bowl, as you tend to get fanbases who are very disappointed they aren’t getting a shot at a title (Ex - Alabama playing K State in December 2022).


Any bowl is going to be boom-bust to a degree but the SB sure seems to be taking some hits between top flight SEC teams not appearing and some notoriously poor traveling fanbases appearing.

Baylor, for example, used to be joked about as going to games with the Ten Commandments and a $100 bill and not breaking either during the trip.

Couple things, NOLA is a fricking crime-ridden shithole and not worth really going. And since the inception of this dumbass playoff we’ve got, nobody gives a shite about the bowl games. They need to be done away with.

Mog-adjacent.

If you take a cab you can still get to the party areas without getting rolled, raped, and or killed.

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