Another basically (-like 70 tickets) 10,000 person crowd. Really awesome considering this week is the first week of midterms for most kids. Seeing freshman show up before they take the first “big” test of their college life is pretty nice to see.

So it sounds like there was a pretty good student turnout and that's great to see. I don't know what it will take to get the Davis community at large to show up big numbers on a regular basis though. We have a championship quality program and they deserve more support from the Davis community.

so agree, especially in a town that is so easily bikeable. I see the community biking to school in droves every morning, could easily bike to the game. Actually would be nice to have a little more bike parking now that I think about it..

Loved the return of Tube Sock madness as both a quirky stunt to get students out and a throwback for the alumni. I know I was thrilled that they started throwing them to the East Sideline too.

Now, sitting next to a bunch of recruits (DBs from the snippets of conversations I heard) meant I didn't actually get to catch any because I was pretty well covered, but still, nice touch

can we get the women's softball team to come out and throw the socks toward the top of the stands?

If we lived in Davis we would absolutely bike to games. As a student, we used to walk to Toomey. Good times!

My first two years in Davis, I lived so close to Toomey, we walked over for the game from our house. There was a walking group and we'd sort of build to it block after block like the Buckaroo Banzai trailer. Good times indeed! That was a loud North End Zone - seeing tube sock madness come back was great, at one point it got sophisticated so that socks could make it to the top rows of the seating when the "Aggie S.W.A.T." Team would come out with a compressed air gun and fire them up to the top rows so everybody got some action - I think those cannons were discontinued for obvious reasons as they shot those socks out pretty fast. Still a fun time when tube socks were in the game, not sure if the S.W.A.T. guys were ROTC, but they were fun to watch - ROTC guys and Band-Uh! used to always do push ups together, and in those J.T. O'Sullivan days there were 100's of push ups a game.

We'd definitely be biking to games if we lived in Davis. It's great time for the family, we get to do that here in Boise, park along the river and ride bikes on the greenbelt 10-15 minutes to the game. Thinking about doing that this week. It's probably going to be the last chance here to see a game in nice 60 degree weather.

Moving in the right direction. Historical average home-game attendance (regular season):

2022 - 9,876
2023 - 10,966
2024 - 11,135
2025 - 12,991

I agree we are moving in right direction which is why I felt we should have at least filled in one of the endzones with seats to increase seated capacity to 13k at least plus the new suites/premium seats in phase 1 of Aggie ascent.

Next week will be a big indicator - last years game drew 6400 on a beautiful day. If we repeat that, there’s no rush to increase seating since we won’t have a Sac bump to help along with the somewhat artificial orientation ‘record’.

ICA muffed that.

One way we can all help out is to invite family and friends to attend the game (as a group). I got five new people to go to last week's game by taking this approach,

good point. My brother and sister in law were there last week, and they are back for playoff with two fans. I’ve been reaching out to my football alumni friends - be good to have the stands full!

The Rhodys average like 5,000 per game so i doubt their fans travel well.

I would guess Saturday’s game was the highest grossing game ever. A legit 14k not dominated by free student tickets. My SIL is a graduate who attended Weber game (her friends brother played here and was here for alumni day); after that, they bought causeway tickets. After that, they contacted me about playoff tickets. It’s a pretty good environment for sports fans

I have more friends who are willing to go to the playoff game this year. Hopefully a ton come back after the absolute blast last weekends game was!

I'm told players do a good job of giving their unused allotted tickets to other players who need them for family/friends so they're able to bring around 400 devoted people to every home game. Just need to work on filling out the damn east side.

Man I didn't realize we only drew 6400 for that game last year. That's pathetic.

a big drop off was expected given the Thanksgiving weekend, but still.

I was there. It felt empty.

It wasn’t even Thanksgiving weekend though. Just like this year, we had a bye the weekend of Thanksgiving. That game was Dec 7 last year.

In terms of paid attendance that’s actually above trend. Look at the opener this year. If you believe the admin there were 17k for at least some portion of the game. They also said 13k were students, who do not pay. That is a tiny gate.

We bought 1,000 tickets for students, and apparently there was little / no outreach to students informing them.

For sure that makes it even worse. Was just clarifying that they didn't have the excuse of "oh it was Thanksgiving weekend, the students were gone". That would be more understandable. But you have two weeks to get the word out.

Plus you're coming off the momentum of that massive Montana St game, which yes they lost but people showed up, then you beat your rival, get a bye and then seemingly don't take advantage of it.