I would have to agree about the attendance. I definitely thought there were more than 45,000. There were three pockets missing fans of what looked like no more than a couple thousand. Where were the other 9,000 missing seats? I'm no crowd estimator by any means but if the stadium capacity really is 60,000 then I have no idea how the attendance was that low. Also, the stadium showed signs of promise for big games. Bedlam is going to be LOUD. I sat in the west endzone so I don't know what it was like from my normal seats, but it was louder than I've heard it in that stadium in four or five years. The only negative is nervousness about playing a real team. Houston has a good offense and good quarterback and Mike Gundy pulled the defense back to only guarding against the big play to make sure that the offense got some time off of the field, but it's hard to tell how good we really are. It looks like the offense has more than returned. It looks like our guys should get some good experience before playing a very good Mizzou.

Also, did any other OSU feel elated at the Colorado game yesterday? If Colorado keeps playing like that our win total should be at least 8 (WSU, HU, MSU, Troy, A&M, CU, BU, ISU). If that is the case and we can pull an upset(OU in Stillwater, Mizzou, Tech or A&M), a 9 win regular season before returning a large amount of people (only lose two starters on offense the downside it one of them is Pettigrew) would be great momentum for next season.

A large portion of the empty seats are the middle of the field center sections on both north and south sides, some areas in the west end zone and the north club levels. All mostly the way overpriced (our old seats for over 20 years) tickets for a college football game. Our family enjoyed our new tix in the west endzone. Someone else can pay $250 - $500 PER GAME per seat and those are the empty seats. Go figure.

I was at the game as well sitting near the student section on the north side. If the attendance was 45,000 then that was the largest 45,000 I have ever seen. The west endzone was PACKED. Only the top corners were spotty and the same for the sides of the South seating (I couldn't see the North sides from where I was sitting).

My concern is not the defense, but the fans. With as many people as we had in the stadium I felt it should have been a LOT louder than it was. Maybe it's just me, but where I'm from you don't sit when the defense is on the field--especially when it's third down. If we want to create a stadium presence for the nation to notice, we need to bring our basketball mentality into BPS!

Arthur, I agree with your Colorado assessment but refuse to make any claims just yet because yes, I am that superstitious and I don't want to jinx it!

Kelsey, I appreciate the counterpoint. I can only speak for the mass of "fans" that I was sitting with on the North side.

How many people can the suites and club seats hold? My guess is those are the seats that were unoccupied and created such a misleading number. Maybe they can release the percentage of regular seats that were full. That may change things completely.

Dale you are correct $200 plus to watch is crazy. There were many open seats in the old D and C sections, the eclub level was also not close to full. I set in the EZ and while it was full it was not packed the rwo behind had 6 plus open and next to me had several 1 and 2 open seats. 45000 is correct, your tickets are scanned when you enter the stadium

There is no way that we had 15k empty seats on Saturday! Section 202 was packed to the gills were I was located. I was very impressed with all of the students at the game!!! GO POKES!