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ESPN did a story on how Philly has embraced Temple football. It will be interesting to see the scene tomorrow for Gameday. Temple is averaging 45,252 per game this season. The previous two years they averaged 22,000. Beating ND would a lot for our conference.
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Interesting what winning does for a team in a good sports town. Hmmm
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Go Temple Owls and represent the AAC.
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smusic 00 wrote:Interesting what winning does for a team in a good sports town. Hmmm

Yep. Also, the key for Temple was beating Penn St. When you play and beat schools people care about, you'll get attention in a major sports market.
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LA_Mustang wrote:ESPN did a story on how Philly has embraced Temple football. It will be interesting to see the scene tomorrow for Gameday. Temple is averaging 45,252 per game this season. The previous two years they averaged 22,000. Beating ND would a lot for our conference.


Those attendance numbers are a bit skewed by having 70K for Penn State. Im guessing many/most of those were Penn State fans. The other 2 home games Tulane and UCF were 35 and then 30K.
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White Helmet wrote:
LA_Mustang wrote:ESPN did a story on how Philly has embraced Temple football. It will be interesting to see the scene tomorrow for Gameday. Temple is averaging 45,252 per game this season. The previous two years they averaged 22,000. Beating ND would a lot for our conference.


Those attendance numbers are a bit skewed by having 70K for Penn State. Im guessing many/most of those were Penn State fans. The other 2 home games Tulane and UCF were 35 and then 30K.


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We have 11K+ student tix claimed for tomorrow.
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I hope one of the AAC teams can remain undefeated and get into the New Year's bowl slot. Would also love if there was enough chaos and they could be in the convo for the last playoff slot.
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JHG,
Just curious, how many season tix did Temple sell this year? Also, how many undergrads do you have?
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White Helmet wrote:
LA_Mustang wrote:ESPN did a story on how Philly has embraced Temple football. It will be interesting to see the scene tomorrow for Gameday. Temple is averaging 45,252 per game this season. The previous two years they averaged 22,000. Beating ND would a lot for our conference.


Those attendance numbers are a bit skewed by having 70K for Penn State. Im guessing many/most of those were Penn State fans. The other 2 home games Tulane and UCF were 35 and then 30K.

Many more temple butts in seats vs state Penn than you would expect or hear about from the pedophile fan club. In a sell out at the link, temple had a much better fan showing percentage wise than we often do against Baylor.

They need this win to really start cementing their place in local alumni over 25, as well as the non temple linked fan. For all of its schools, Philly is not a town where schools draw well outside of specific local basketball games. If Temple can grow their base and get that on campus stadium...look out.

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LA_Mustang wrote:JHG,
Just curious, how many season tix did Temple sell this year? Also, how many undergrads do you have?


I have no idea how many season tix, but I believe it was a record. We have ~26,600 undergrads on our main campus.
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JHG wrote:
White Helmet wrote:
LA_Mustang wrote:ESPN did a story on how Philly has embraced Temple football. It will be interesting to see the scene tomorrow for Gameday. Temple is averaging 45,252 per game this season. The previous two years they averaged 22,000. Beating ND would a lot for our conference.


Those attendance numbers are a bit skewed by having 70K for Penn State. Im guessing many/most of those were Penn State fans. The other 2 home games Tulane and UCF were 35 and then 30K.


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If Temple beats State Penn and Notre Dump in the same season, I'll become a serious fan.
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Great crowd at Gameday. They just put up the interesting note that this is the first time Temple has hosted a ranked team while being ranked in school history.
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Were Temple players able to stay focused this week and take care of business tonight? ND is used to distractions and big games. With both PSU and ND at home, the Temple fan base has two games of the decade in one season. Pretty amazing. Go Owls!
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