wasnt there Saturday Night, and hard to tell on TV because both schools have similar colors, how many fans (as % of stadium) did OSU have?
Have a question about crowd Saturday Night
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Their sections were full. Add more than that around stadium. There were more than PSU last year. I'd say about 8-10k.
Too damn many... more than PSU last year I'd say. I would guess a lot were local "bandwagon" fans, not OSU alums.
I think about the same as knightfan7.
My guess would be around 9K
I remember a bad weather WVU game with a lot of WVU fans and not many RU fans. They showed up and were rowdy.
My guess would be around 9K
I remember a bad weather WVU game with a lot of WVU fans and not many RU fans. They showed up and were rowdy.
I would say 7-9m is accurate. Funny also that the five that were sitting near me had no real connection to the University. Not alumni no relatives that went there. Rather 3 were descendants of people from Ohio and 2 were bandwagonners. The 3 that were descendants were born and raised in NJ and family left Ohio nearly 50 years ago.
Ohio people travel EVERYWHERE and not just for football. Has nobody else here noticed how many people are from Ohio when you and your own family are on vacation somewhere. Ohioans flee that state in droves and not just for the Buckeyes. I have close to 20 people I count as good friends from Ohio and they will admit to this, though nobody can tell me why lol.
All of you are crazy. You vastly overestimate this.
It was about the same number as PSU had sent. About 6000 - 7500.
The visitor allotment sections (3000 seats) was full, as od course, was the rest of the stadium.
These seats are in the NW corner (~1500 seats) and part of the west side upper deck, which has a total of 5000 seats.
Plus tOSU fans were smattered around the rest of the stadium.
It was about the same number as PSU had sent. About 6000 - 7500.
The visitor allotment sections (3000 seats) was full, as od course, was the rest of the stadium.
These seats are in the NW corner (~1500 seats) and part of the west side upper deck, which has a total of 5000 seats.
Plus tOSU fans were smattered around the rest of the stadium.
All of you are crazy. You vastly overestimate this.
It was about the same number as PSU had sent. About 6000 - 7500.
The visitor allotment sections (3000 seats) was full, as od course, was the rest of the stadium.
These seats are in the NW corner (~1500 seats) and part of the west side upper deck, which has a total of 5000 seats.
Plus tOSU fans were smattered around the rest of the stadium.
It was about the same number as PSU had sent. About 6000 - 7500.
The visitor allotment sections (3000 seats) was full, as od course, was the rest of the stadium.
These seats are in the NW corner (~1500 seats) and part of the west side upper deck, which has a total of 5000 seats.
Plus tOSU fans were smattered around the rest of the stadium.
I estimated about 8,000.
It was harder to estimate by looking at the crowd, because their fans wore the same colors as Rutgers fans. The OSU fans were loud and the Rutgers fans were quiet (since our team wasn't giving us a lot to cheer about), so it was also hard to tell from noise level.
But early in the 3rd Quarter, OSU fans started a O-H-I-O cheer around the stadium, in which you could see the OSU fans moving their arms to the cheer. At that time, I estimated about 4000 in the north endzone and corners, and about 2000 on each of the sides. Note, that is about 20% of the stadium (excluding the student section), or 1 out of every 5 fans; an excellent showing by OSU fans.
Later, in the 4th quarter, I estimated there were only about 8000 fans left in the stadium, of which I figure only 6000 were OSU fans. But even though OSU fans were more likely to stay to the end of the game, it is not unreasonable to assume that 25% left early on a blowout win.
So I'm sticking with my 8000 estimate.
It was harder to estimate by looking at the crowd, because their fans wore the same colors as Rutgers fans. The OSU fans were loud and the Rutgers fans were quiet (since our team wasn't giving us a lot to cheer about), so it was also hard to tell from noise level.
But early in the 3rd Quarter, OSU fans started a O-H-I-O cheer around the stadium, in which you could see the OSU fans moving their arms to the cheer. At that time, I estimated about 4000 in the north endzone and corners, and about 2000 on each of the sides. Note, that is about 20% of the stadium (excluding the student section), or 1 out of every 5 fans; an excellent showing by OSU fans.
Later, in the 4th quarter, I estimated there were only about 8000 fans left in the stadium, of which I figure only 6000 were OSU fans. But even though OSU fans were more likely to stay to the end of the game, it is not unreasonable to assume that 25% left early on a blowout win.
So I'm sticking with my 8000 estimate.
There is no way in hell that tOSU had 15,933 fans (30% of the 53,111 fans). At most they had 8k- 10k fans.
I think you are vastly UNDER-estimating. It felt like 15,000. The entire end zone across from the student section was filled with Buckeye fans, as were both corners of the upper deck, and much of the corner on the lower deck.
My estimate was 75/25 in Q1. That equates to about 13-14,000 OSU fans. And yes, many RU fans left in Q3, while all the OSU fans stayed.
I sit in 225. Usually every game there are very few people behind me, and in each section as you move towards both end zones, the number of weekly attendees declines. The upper corners are empty every week. I understand some posters being upset that it seams some season ticket holders downstairs sold their tix to OSU fans, but the upper deck was almost 50/50 RU/OSU fans, because even just a few weeks ago, anyone could go online to the Rutgers site and buy tickets directly (because that many were still available).
Not to mention their 8 National Championships, Ohio State is 110-21 in the last 10 years, plus 8-0 this year. Throw out the 6-7 2011 year (the post-Tressel, pre-Urban Luke Fickell year) and they are 112-14 since September 2005. And while they were ineligible in 2012, their worst bowl invite in that stretch was the Gator Bowl in that 6-7 2011 year. Since 05 they've been to that Gator Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the Fiesta (twice), the Sugar (twice) and played in the National Championship game 3 times. LET THAT SINK IN.
Gee, I wonder why their fan base is larger than ours?
How many Rutgers fans would travel to Columbus, or Ann Arbor, etc., if we won 88% of our games? Let alone, what would we travel to the major bowl games vs. Detroit, Toronto, St Petersburg, NYC, and Birmingham?!
Give it some time, we'll get there.
I sit in 225. Usually every game there are very few people behind me, and in each section as you move towards both end zones, the number of weekly attendees declines. The upper corners are empty every week. I understand some posters being upset that it seams some season ticket holders downstairs sold their tix to OSU fans, but the upper deck was almost 50/50 RU/OSU fans, because even just a few weeks ago, anyone could go online to the Rutgers site and buy tickets directly (because that many were still available).
Not to mention their 8 National Championships, Ohio State is 110-21 in the last 10 years, plus 8-0 this year. Throw out the 6-7 2011 year (the post-Tressel, pre-Urban Luke Fickell year) and they are 112-14 since September 2005. And while they were ineligible in 2012, their worst bowl invite in that stretch was the Gator Bowl in that 6-7 2011 year. Since 05 they've been to that Gator Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the Fiesta (twice), the Sugar (twice) and played in the National Championship game 3 times. LET THAT SINK IN.
Gee, I wonder why their fan base is larger than ours?
How many Rutgers fans would travel to Columbus, or Ann Arbor, etc., if we won 88% of our games? Let alone, what would we travel to the major bowl games vs. Detroit, Toronto, St Petersburg, NYC, and Birmingham?!
Give it some time, we'll get there.
Nope, this has been discussed here before. Even assuming that what you stated is entirely true (and I disagree, having been at the game as well), the upper deck corners and north endzone/lower deck corner equates to approximately 10,000 people at the very most.
I sat next to an OSU guy Saturday night. His motto since retiring 10 years ago has been "every play, every game, every year". Hasn't missed a regular game or post season game in over 10 years.
207 and around us seemed to be almost all OSU and a few RU scattered about.
I'd say 10k was pretty close to the correct number.
207 and around us seemed to be almost all OSU and a few RU scattered about.
I'd say 10k was pretty close to the correct number.
Perhaps it does, but that's not the only place OSU fans were sitting.
It seems like these estimates vary drastically based on where your tickets were. If you sat in a predominantly Rutgers area of the stadium you're estimating 6-8k. The people who sat closer to the predominantly OSU area of the stadium are estimating anywhere between 15-20k. I think it's likely it falls somewhere in between the two extremes.
I guesstimated about 9-10k OSU fans. There were plenty in 222, that's for sure. And each OSU fan was about 3 times as loud as any Rutgers fan, so their presence seemed even bigger.
From 108-119 it was about 80% OSU. Easily 9-10k in the house. Blew away PSU #'s did you see what it looked like at game's end?
Funny, I could've sworn I met you Saturday night, because Chewbacca dressed in a Rutgers football jersey, walked right past my section just prior to gametime!
My estimate of 10k assumes that the upper deck corners and entire north endzone including one lower deck corner sat only OSU fans, which was clearly not the case. Counting a majority of OSU fans in those specified areas, combined with others scattered elsewhere on the east/west sides of the stadium (there were virtually none in the south end zone where the students & young alumni are), still equates to approximately 10k people. So I'm going to go with that.
Excluding the student section. Rutgers Stadium has 52,454 seats. 10,000 of those are reserved for students, so that leaves 42,454 non-student seats.
8,000 is 18.8% of 42,454, or about 20%
Disagre. More than PSU and A LOT more than Michigan. Next year, however, I expect a HUGE turnout for the maize-n-blue.
I would say equal to Penn State and that 10k is a good estimate. Toward the end the Ohio state fans that remained moved to the first few rows of the lower bowl and where pretty loud.
This. I bet 40-50% of these tixs were sold by RU season tix holders. We had dabbles of OSU fans all over section 128.
GO RU
The North End Zone (apart from the tOSU corner) was largely empty in the 4th quarter, just like the rest of the stadium. So if the north end zone was filled with visiting fans they left their big win early to beat the traffic.
6000-7500 is the number I'm sticking with.
6000-7500 is the number I'm sticking with.
Same in 130. And as I said earlier...when they were doing O-H-I-O...lots of folks on the lower west sidelines that are prime seats were chanting H and standing...
What/where the hell is "oho"? So the funny thing was that it was basically an O-H-O (no "I") chant since there were few to no Bucknut fans in the south endzone (all RU students and recent alumni so no one there cooperating with the visitors). All we kept hearing in the east sideline (which was the ending side) was O-H-slight pause-O. While everyone knew the intent and not surprised they were loud and proud to get it going in our stadium, I still couldn't help myself from giving some of their fans a hard time that they can't spell Ohio correctly.
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