Tempe: Home Field Advantage Takes a Hit
Arizona State was talking about having a sellout to see it's Game of the Decade vs. USC ... but here we are minutes before kickoff and two entire sections of stands, reserved for students, I think, are empty.
There are patches of empty seats all over the stadium.
Which makes sense, given that it's Thanksgiving and ASU is a commuter school and probably some huge number of kids went home for the weekend.
It's got to hurt ASU's spirit a little to come out and look around and see those empty seats.
The place holds 72,000 or so. At this moment, I'd say maybe 65,000 will be here. At best. People ARE still coming in, and this is a stadium famed for its inaccessibility.