The home attendance for Miami Hurricanes football games is a running joke every year. Those fans spend all offseason talking online about the "U" being back, only to never show up for the actual games.
In 2024, the Hurricanes had their first 10-win season since 2017 and only their second 10-win season in the last 20+ years. They started the season ranked in the top 25 and had a big road win over the Florida Gators.
They started the season 7-0 and failed to draw 60,000 fans for a home game until the worst Florida State Seminoles team in our lifetimes came to Miami in late October. FSU fans already travel well to Miami, and that's why we renamed it Doak South. That's the only reason they finally hit that mark.
The media is hyping Miami up again, but the fans don't appear to be buying it since Miami is offering huge deals like the one below to attempt to entice folks to come to their home games in the stadium they rent.
EIGHT home games, one great low price! 🙌
— Miami Hurricanes Football (@CanesFootball) July 2, 2025
Secure your season tickets: https://t.co/ony48BEoH7 pic.twitter.com/4lPsnsErAA
That's like $50 a game and I bet they still won't have more than 65K fans in that stadium at any point this season.
What's crazy is that FSU had stadium renovations going on at Doak Campbell Stadium during the season last year, its worst season ever, and still had as many fans at home games as Miami in their best year in a decade.
This is a solid home schedule too! Notre Dame, Florida, and Louisville in the first two months of the season will likely determine Miami's season. A opening game loss against Notre Dame would probably take the wind out of the Miami hype machine, and if they lost to Florida in week four and lost to FSU in week five?
That stadium would be completely empty the rest of the season even if they got people to take this deal.