:hihi: Yeah, like about 50 thousand. It certainly don't matter in a blowout, but a home game is a home game. Their is a reason you get at least a 3 point advantage on your home turf.
Who cares? I love Atlanta hosting it. Its a great stadium, great surrounding around the Dome, and overall a good experience, imo. The fact that we lost was due to poor coaching, execution, and playing...not because UGA had more fans there. The damn Dome doesnt even get that loud anyway. We laughed at the "home game" factor in 2003.
I like it in Atlanta as well. However, it is a decent-size disadvantage for a team like LSU to overcome because of the distance and ticket situation. It would be that way for some other teams from the West as well. I just wish they'd even out the distribution a lot better. And if you don't think it was loud in that dome, then you may possibly be deaf from too many games in Tiger Stadium. It was DAMN loud. Georgia fans did a good job. And by the way, everyone I talked too noticed how the Georgia band was "movie theatre" loud. If they don't put microphones near the band, then that is the loudest band ever. It was ridiculous. I was in the opposite endzone at the top and it was like they were playing in my ear. That made it double-hard for LSU in between plays. Trust me, all that can be an advantage. Still, when the bands took the field Gerogia was not loud like that. Something is up. Or there's some kind of acoustics thing going on unlike anything I've ever heard which is possible. I was sitting above LSU's band and it wasn't anything like that.