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BY THE NUMBERS: A look at stats that aren’t recorded on the football field

By on September 9, 2011

Put on your thinking caps and get ready to do some math. Gameday stats aren’t just about  touchdowns and yards.

 

Sean Taylor/Staff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

20,000:

approximate number of fans who shop in the UGA bookstore on a gameday

11:

number of arrests by UGA police on gameday last season

25:

number of towed vehicles on gameday last season

7:

Sanford Stadium is the seventh-largest college football stadium in the country

92,746:

If the capacity of Sanford Stadium were a city, it’d be the seventh-most-populous city in Georgia

2:

Athens was ranked by Sports Illustrated as the country’s second-best college sports town

63:

consecutive sellouts of Sanford Stadium, dating back to September 1, 2001

51-12:

Mark Richt’s home record at Georgia

$360,000:

original cost of Sanford Stadium

$33 million:

cost of 2003-04 Sanford Stadium expansions