One Tough Ticket
December 08, 2009 09:38 AM | General
December 8, 2009 (9:39 a.m.)
The Gator Bowl is going to be one tough ticket to get this year. The bowl said Monday that it sold every ticket for the New Year’s game in less than two hours. All 77,474 tickets have been sold and the bowl is now considering putting up auxiliary seats in the end zone underneath the scoreboards. The capacity could grow to at least 85,000 if the bowl chooses to do that.
The last time the Gator Bowl added temporary seating was for the West Virginia-Maryland game on Jan. 1, 2004. Jacksonville Municipal Stadium also adds seats for the Florida-Georgia game.
According to WVU sports marketing director Matt Wells, the Mountaineer Ticket Office accommodated more than 14,700 ticket requests, including an addition 2,000 tickets that were sold online between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tuesday evening.
The Gator Bowl will be the seventh time in the last eight years that West Virginia has played in a bowl game with at least 70,000 in attendance.
West Virginia and Clemson played before a Gator Bowl record crowd of 82,911 in 1989.
