Originally Posted by Lindy 
FYI: I attended the Hawks' Orange and Capital One Bowls, and it is absolultely beyond question that there were more Iowa fans at both of them than there are Cyclone fans at their home games at Jack Trice. Hawk fans outnumbered USC fans by 10 to 1 at a minimum and LSU fans by at least 4 to 1. In fact, I would venture to say that more than 30K fans attended both of the pre-game pep rallies held the night before the games. I would only note that I find quite incredible any claim that the Clones would send more fans to a bowl game than they actually have at games in their own backyard.
I would also point out that we have no idea how many Hawk fans will attend the Alamo Bowl game, but I'll bet you'll be quite surprised, considering the "down" season they had.
Where did anyone say that
ISU would send more fans to a bowl game than they get to their home games?? Everyone knows that Iowa has more fans than
ISU so congrats on pointing that out. I was just saying that our recent bowl attendance (which was actually quite good) would have been a lot better had our conference been linked to better bowl games. Try to imagine if Iowa had gone to Shreveport twice in the last few years...I'm thinking they'd have more fans than we got but not by much.
