Plenty of tickets remaining for Saturday’s Sun Bowl
The 82nd annual Hyundai Sun Bowl game between Miami and Washington State is still a few days away.
ABC-7 has been keeping a close eye on ticket sales. Last week the El Paso Hotel-Motel Association projected fewer fans than usual would be making the trip to El Paso due to the game being the closest to Christmas it’s been in 22 years.
However, the local support for the bowl is like no other.
The past several years attendance has been close to capacity at the Sun Bowl. Last year’s crowd for Arizona State and Duke was announced at 47,809 at the 51,500-seat stadium.
A TicketMaster map of tickets remaining for this year’s Sun Bowl matchup shows an estimate of more than 10,000 tickets remaining at this point.
The Sun Bowl attendance record was a sellout of 54,021 for the 2010 game between Miami and Notre Dame. What this year’s game could have in common with that game is bad weather, which could keep some locals away.
With the forecast calling for possible precipitation and temperatures in the 40’s and 50’s, ABC-7 asked Miami interim coach Larry Scott how his team would prepare.
“Whatever the weather is that day, we got to go get done what we got to get done like today and we’ll do the same tomorrow and we’ll do the same Friday,” Scott said. “When we get to the game and whatever that is, we got to put our helmets on, we got to suit up and we got to go play. So whatever the conditions are we’ll be ready to go play the game.”
