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Game Thread 2015 Sugar Bowl: (1) Alabama vs. (4) Ohio State, Jan 1st @ 8:30p ET, ESPN (civilized thread)

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UpNorth_Buckeye said:
So are you saying that most alumni are also inside Alabama? Or would you expect there to be a large alumni base throughout the southeast? I couldn't tell by your comment if you meant people growing up as fans only originate from Alabama, or also students coming from throughout the southeast to go to school at Bama and then working outside Alabama.

I only ask for the clarification because of a statistic I saw that about one week after the game was official, 21% of ticket sales came from Ohio and 18% from Alabama. If what you're saying is true, and there are very few Bama fans/alumni outside of the state of Alabama, then that would lead me to believe that there's a better chance than I originally thought that OSU could have more fans there.
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I think most grads (and southern people in general) stay home. Of course, many do leave. I think it's going to be pretty close to 50/50 at the game, as it should be. An extra 5% here or there won't make a difference in that big building.
 
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Steve19 said:
The Ohio State University Alumni Association now has more than 500,000 members, according to their web page.

The University of Alabama Alumni Association has only 34,000 members, according to their webpage.

Fair to assume that there are more Buckeye alumni in the South than Tide alumni?
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interesting, given the enrollment at Alabama is nearly equal to that number, while osu's enrollment is about 10% of the registered alumni pool
 
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jwinslow said:
interesting, given the enrollment at Alabama is nearly equal to that number, while osu's enrollment is about 10% of the registered alumni pool
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Surely I must be reading this incorrectly from their website:

More than 34,000 members include not only alumni, but also thousands of UA supporters and Crimson Tide fans.
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Are they saying they admit fans who didn't go to school there in their alumni program? Or are they just stating that alumni of the school are also Bama fans?
 
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OK, a bit more objective.

Ohio State has the largest active fan base of any team in America, according ti the New York Times. (http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-
college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/)

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tidefan1 said:
I don't recall very many play action boots that ended with a high rate of success. If OSU plays a lot of man to man, you will get beat by three touchdowns. Nobody gets off the line better than Cooper and nobody runs crisper routes than Cooper.
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Likewise, if we play man to man it hasn't always worked out to our advantage. Especially on broken routes after the QB scrambles and deep balls.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
Just in case you're even slightly serious, you've actually had two games in Hawaii: Nov 30, 2002 (W 21-16) and Nov 29, 2003 (L 37-29). And Hawaii doesn't support RVs.

As for beau's claim that Alabama will have an attendance edge due solely to location, if you watched B1G CCG, it was probably 80-90% Buckeye fans despite a travel-time difference of less than two hours.
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More than slightly serious. You are correct in that we did go twice. We were banned from bowl games and we scheduled the games with Hawaii as a snub to the NCAA. A few fans, did in fact, ship their Bama rigged motorhomes to Hawaii.
 
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