The Bleacher Report has a good article about attendance at spring games.
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The media credits Nick Saban for making the spring games such a big media event now.
A spring game had never had more than maybe 30,000 show up until Saban arrived on campus at Tuscaloosa. That year, over 100,000 people showed up and only 93,000+ were allowed to enter the stadium due to the Fire Marshall ordering the then capacity number of the stadium not to be exceeded.
Since then, it has become a major media event and a source of competition. Saban uses it as a major recruiting tool as well.
SEC schools have higher attendance for some spring games than half of the division one teams do during the regular season contests. After a three month absence from football, those fans would come just to watch the team do exercises and warm up drills, much more a full fledged scrimmage game.
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