Nebraska football officially logs biggest Spring Game attendance in NCAAs
Nebraska football fans are a little excited about the Scott Frost era.
The announced attendance for Nebraska football’s first Spring Game under Scott Frost was 86,818. That number was officially higher than any other spring game in the NCAAs this season.
Yes, the team coming off a 4-8 season had more people come watch than those that attended Alabama’s or Georgia’s. Both of those games certainly had a healthy number show up, but only Georgia really got close.
The Bulldogs’ fans did indeed show up in droves and eventually logged more than 82,000. Alabama was third in attendance with 74,000.
2018 Spring Game attendance (FINAL)
— Pick Six Previews (@PickSixPreviews) April 21, 2018
86,818 - Nebraska
82,184 - UGA
74,732 - Alabama
71,000 - PSU
65,098 - Tennessee
60,934 - FSU
55,000 - Clemson
53,015 - UF
52,102 - OU
48,000 - A&M
47,803 - Ohio St
36,814 - VA Tech
36,090 - Kentucky
31,751 - ND
28,033 - Auburn
25,500 - SCar
Haters will say it's photoshopped: pic.twitter.com/HNNm8z0ZR7
— Alex Roux (@a_roux) April 21, 2018
The Big Ten had two representatives in the Top 10 attendance list, as Penn State had over 71,000 people come to their Spring Game, which was also held today. Ohio State finished just outside the Top 10 with over 47,000.
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— Erik Chinander (@CoachChinander) April 22, 2018
With those numbers, the rest of college football gets a nice participation trophy, but Cornhuskers fans have known for weeks that Lincoln was going to be posting the highest number.
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Spring Game tickets sold out just hours after they first went on sale. Those looking for tickets days later were paying insane prices.
Nebraska had set the face value of the tickets at $10. That’s interesting to note because not every school charges. Tennessee, who is also welcoming a new head coach this season, offered free admittance.
Despite the fact that the Volunteers weren’t charging, and despite the fact their head coach said he wanted 100,000 fans, it turns out only 68,000 tickets were claimed.
Knox News reports that the number of people who actually attended was closer to 40,000. While Husker coaches were busy thanking their fans for coming out this morning, Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt was busy asking where his fans were.
Seriously.
He complained about Spring Game attendance. No matter how bad things get in Lincoln, it seems like we can take solace in the fact that we aren’t Vols fans.
Does the massive attendance for the Red-White game mean that the Cornhuskers are back? No.
Next: 3 takeaways from the Huskers’ Spring Game
Nebraska football has a long way to go before it convinces the rest of the country it’s back and ready to win. No one can argue that the excitement surrounding the program hasn’t returned .