On Saturday, UTEP athletics debuted a new starting time for the football game—5:30-—which had mixed reactions from fans.
In fact, the majority of fans didn’t pour into the stadium until about midway into the first quarter, as expected. At about halftime, the Sun Bowl’s press box side was flooded in a sea of orange and blue, and it looked like an admirable crowd for a home opener.
The attendance looked dense in numbers by the start of the third quarter, when Northern Arizona started to pull away for the win. I thought to myself, “maybe 18-19,000, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they said 23,000 fans.