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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 3194741, member: 55"] Based on what? We filled a 40k seat stadium, made a heck of a lot of noise and intimidated opponents. Given the overall quality and location of the five bowls we played in, we did fine bringing people. Yes, the Fiesta Bowl didn't work well but that was for a whole host of reasons. We brought more people than organizers hoped for to crappy places like Detroit and Charlotte and Toronto (I know -- Toronto is not a crappy place, or anything near it, but for college football in January ....). We were nowhere near being Michigan or Alabama. But we were absolutely at a comfortable level within the power conferences as a whole. But not shockingly, we couldn't sustain it when we got thrown out. I'd like to see UVA or Illinois or Oregon State try it. [/QUOTE]