FSU football: Impact of full capacity at Doak Campbell this fall
By Kelvin Hunt
Local Economy
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Tallahassee isn’t a big city, and many businesses depend on FSU to attract people who’ll spend money locally.
The weekends with FSU football are huge for those businesses. We’re usually talking about 60-75,000 people converging in the city to spend money on hotels, gas, food, parking, souvenirs, and other things.
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Of course, attendance had fallen off in the last few games of the Willie Taggart era. We’re talking about only 64,000 fans attending the Miami game in 2019.
However, the energy around the program seems to be in a much better place compared to then, and I expect a huge crowd for the Notre Dame game.
It’ll be a night game and will be the only college football game taking place on a Sunday night. That means people will likely come into Tallahassee earlier in the weekend, and that will be good for everyone in the city.