Outside of the scoreboard, the most important figures for the UCF and USF football teams will be the number of fans sitting inside of Raymond James Stadium Saturday afternoon.
No game on the schedule stirs more passion among fans from both schools. As a result, the number of fans in seats sends a message to the national college football audience — and TV Networks - what rivalry week can looks like in the growing American Athletic Conference.
"It's important that we develop our fan bases. There's that old saying, it's not the mark, it's the mark that you deliver and that's true of attendance and TV and ratings," said AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco.