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I’m actually IN the visitor industry. I have been for 25 years. I can tell you FOR A FACT that anyone who’s been in hospitality longer than the past few years is foaming at the mouth at the prospect of SEC football business. SEC schools usually outperform their allotments, meaning they buy up every ticket provided them by OU and ALSO buy up lots of OU season ticket holder tickets on the secondary market.
And BoulderSooner is correct that they normally stay two or more nights. Alabama fans in particular start arriving 3-4 days before the game. And they SPEND.
The SEC doesn’t have a monopoly on fans that travel; schools like Oregon, Washington, Florida Sate have made big impacts on the local economy when they came here.
But as everyone knows, the SEC top to bottom (other than 2-3 teams) travel better than anyone. They are going to bring lots of love to Norman, and to the OKC metro. Anyone who says different has absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
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