Auburn and Louisville have met once before. It was 1974 in Birmingham, and it was kind of a big deal… because it was such a small deal.
As in literally small, at least if we’re talking crowd size. And that’s all really anyone could talk about after the game, which had the lowest attendance of any Auburn game stretching back 20 years before and stretching forward 41 years and counting.
Season opener. Out of conference. Decent opponent. In the Football Capital of the South. Not on TV.
How many saw it? 25,000—and they were even thankful for that.