Tired of hearing about the "amazing" Utah fans and how they dominated the Rose Bowl. Some insights from someone who was there...
1. Calling a white out was dumb. If it was warm, sunny day...maybe it would have worked better. But in rainy, cold weather people just don't have jackets and coats and rain gear that is white. Group after group of PSU fan walked past us in blue/gray/black...I would guess that MAYBE half of PSU fans were actually in white. Many of them either didn't hear about the white out...or they didn't have warm clothing that was white.
2. Utah's main color is red. I bet every Utah fan had a red sweatshirt or jacket or coat at home. If it was a hot day, they may have been MORE likely to wear "not red." But when it's your team's main "coat color" it's what you wear on a dreary day like yesterday.
3. My guess is that the crowd was split 60-40 Utah to PSU. Of course they had more...we had a good (not great) season and our fans are centralized 2000 miles farther away from Pasadena than Utah's. But it wasn't a "sea of red" in reality. The actual breakdown was something like 50% red, 20% white, and 30% other (with PSU fans making up the majority of the "other" colors with their blue sweatshirts and black jackets). 50 to 20 (red to white) did make it look like a dominant Utah crowd...but it wasn't that bad.
1. Calling a white out was dumb. If it was warm, sunny day...maybe it would have worked better. But in rainy, cold weather people just don't have jackets and coats and rain gear that is white. Group after group of PSU fan walked past us in blue/gray/black...I would guess that MAYBE half of PSU fans were actually in white. Many of them either didn't hear about the white out...or they didn't have warm clothing that was white.
2. Utah's main color is red. I bet every Utah fan had a red sweatshirt or jacket or coat at home. If it was a hot day, they may have been MORE likely to wear "not red." But when it's your team's main "coat color" it's what you wear on a dreary day like yesterday.
3. My guess is that the crowd was split 60-40 Utah to PSU. Of course they had more...we had a good (not great) season and our fans are centralized 2000 miles farther away from Pasadena than Utah's. But it wasn't a "sea of red" in reality. The actual breakdown was something like 50% red, 20% white, and 30% other (with PSU fans making up the majority of the "other" colors with their blue sweatshirts and black jackets). 50 to 20 (red to white) did make it look like a dominant Utah crowd...but it wasn't that bad.