Fred Clerici;842604129 said:
On the coldest night I can remember at Memorial, the true Cal fans, all forty thousand strong, saw a truly entertaining and memorable game. Everything about the game day experience was just right last night. No more negabears, and on to whatever bowl game is lucky enough to take us. Go Bears.
It would have been a bigger crowd if 40,000 showed up. I estimate that there was, at most, 28,000 at Cal Memorial last night vs. ASU.
You could have taken everyone sitting in Sections N through QQ and put them in the empty seats in Section MM and about 1/2 of Section N. Approx. 1,900 people.
Similarly, you could have taken everyone in Sections II through LL and filled up Section M and Section LL. Approx. 2,600 people.
ESP and Benchback sections were about half full, at best. But let's assume a generous 2/3rds full. Approx. 5,200 people.
Sections T and TT would have filled out the empty seats in the student section (approx. 6,700 people), and folks in Section U through XX would have filled out Section A and half of Section XX. Approx. 2,600 people.
Finally, Sections B through E were populated enough to fill Section AA and half of B. Approx. 2,600 people.
My unofficial best estimate is 21,600 people. I'll stipulate that number may be under-estimated by as much as 25% because people were spread out so much in spite of the large numbers of open rows. That brings it up to 28,000 people.
The weather and the kickoff time depressed attendance. The fact, that Cal 's second half of the season has been charitably described as rocky also played into the lack of attendance as well as the game being played on Thanksgiving Weekend. Many people who might have attended (including students) were out of town for the holiday weekend.
