I’m glad this was bumped. All 50k of us—the majority disinterested and sitting on their hands—really seemed like a home crowd with a 10 win season on the line. My 7 year old was the loudest in our section.
And just to add to the embarrassment that is our music disaster, at one point we started to play “Kickstart my heart”, only to have it end a few seconds into the intro.
I think on tv I heard them play Jump Around after FFs td run, but I didn’t see anybody actually jumping.
The stadium crowd was the worst I recall ever seeing for an SEC/non-Idaho like game. They really need to reconsider how many student seats we set aside. But, for this game everywhere was empty. It looked like a good orange-blue crowd on the east sidelines and the stadium music/band lack of involvement has become generic and nfl stadium like. If t was working to bring in a crowd, fine. But it’s not.
After FF’s TD run, I don’t think they even played the fight song. Straight to pumped in music followed after the extra point by a Wisconsin tradition - “jump around”. Even the Gator chomp is a rarity during games. The idea that college has more atmosphere did not play out yesterday or most of this season. While the LSU game was loud a few times even it was not the traditional swamp experience. As with Sofla, my 8 year old was by far the loudest in our section. My 10 year old who is more shy wouldn’t really yell because literally no one else around us was. This was about his 20th game and first he wouldn’t yell.
Last - I’m not sure there were 50,000 fans there. That the team mimicked the flat crowd isn’t surprising to me.