http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/s...indiana-at-yankee-stadium-pinstripe-bowl.html
but an eagerly awaited number of higher importance, at least to the baseball team that runs the show, was announced in the second quarter:
37,218.That was the attendance figure for a football game on a sodded-over diamond between two universities far better known for basketball. It was far smaller than the record 49,012 at last year’s game between Penn State and Boston College, but the Yankees expected that.
The lower-profile bowl games like the Pinstripe Bowl have proved to be a hard sell: In the 12 bowl games played entering Saturday, only three drew more than 30,000, with the Bahamas Bowl between Western Michigan and Middle Tennessee luring a scant
13,123.
Before Saturday, only five of the 11 bowl games that returned from the 2014 slate drew better crowds. The Las Vegas Bowl, which pitted two nearby rivals, Utah and Brigham Young, had a crowd of 42,213, better than the 33,067 who saw Utah play Colorado State in 2014.
The Yankees appeared to be in a fix because
Rutgers and Boston College had losing records this year, and Connecticut, an American Athletic Association team, was not under consideration because the bowl is contractually obligated to the Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference. The 2013 Pinstripe Bowl, won by
Notre Dame over Rutgers, drew
47,122.
