Birmingham's Bowl attendance:
December 23, 2006 South Florida 24 East Carolina 7 32,023 notes
December 22, 2007 Cincinnati 31 Southern Miss 21 35,258 notes
December 29, 2008 Rutgers 29 NC State 23 38,582 notes
January 2, 2010 Connecticut 20 South Carolina 7 45,254 notes
January 8, 2011 Pittsburgh 27 Kentucky 10 41,207 notes
January 7, 2012 SMU 28 Pittsburgh 6 29,726 notes
January 5, 2013 Ole Miss 38 Pittsburgh 17 59,326 notes
January 4, 2014 Vanderbilt 41 Houston 24 42,717 notes
Outside of Hugh Freeze's surprise first season success that had the faithful with bowl cuts over in droves, you can't justify going over 55,000 (how many of those Ole Miss fans actually stayed in Birmingham for one night let alone two) So... it's really the Magic City Classic that may ever really go over 60,000. Ask those teams if they would like to play in a smaller but more capable facility for generating revenues that's more protected from the elements and I bet they won't have an issue.
What some of you need to do is research the soccer stadiums in Europe to see how a 50 to 55 thousand seat facility can be pulled off and how impressive it can be. I'd place it by the convention center and also market it as exhibit space.
Last edited by Wayward Memphian; Jul 2, 2014 at 7:37 PM.
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