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| MEET WEEK 3 | |||
| Thursday, January 15 | |||
| 7:00pm ET/ 4:00pm PT | Hamline @ Oshkosh | SCORES | FREE |
| Friday, January 16 | |||
| 6:30pm ET/ 3:30pm PT | Greenville @ La Crosse | SCORES | FREE |
| 6:30pm ET/ 3:30pm PT | GA Eau Claire @ Winona St | SCORES | FREE |
| 7:00pm ET/ 4:00pm PT | LSU @ Georgia | SCORES | SECN |
| 7:00pm ET/ 4:00pm PT | Alabama @ Florida | SCORES | ESPN2 |
| 7:00pm ET/ 4:00pm PT | Arizona St @ Kentucky | SCORES | SEC+ |
| 8:00pm ET/ 5:00pm PT | Penn St @ Illinois | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 8:00pm ET/ 5:00pm PT | Denver Arizona @ TWU | SCORES | ($) |
| 8:00pm ET/ 5:00pm PT | Illinois St SEMO Fisk Centenary Wilberforce | SCORES | |
| 8:45pm ET/ 5:45pm PT | Oklahoma @ Missouri | SCORES | SECN |
| 9:00pm ET/ 6:00pm PT | Boise St @ BYU | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 10:00pm ET/ 7:00pm PT | Sac St @ Oregon St | SCORES | FREE |
| Saturday, January 17 | |||
| 1:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT | Rhode Island Utica Springfield @ So Conn | SCORES | FREE |
| 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT | So Utah @ Utah State | SCORES | FREE |
| 3:00pm ET/ 12:00pm PT | Whitewater @ Simpson | SCORES | FREE |
| 3:00pm ET/ 12:00pm PT | LIU @ Temple | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 4:00pm ET/ 1:00pm PT | Clemson @ NC St | SCORES | ACC+ |
| 4:00pm ET/ 1:00pm PT | Ohio St @ Rutgers | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 4:00pm ET/ 1:00pm PT | N. Illinois Brockport @ EMU | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 5:00pm ET/ 2:00pm PT | Michigan @ Minnesota | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 5:00pm ET/ 2:00pm PT | Michigan St @ Iowa | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 6:00pm ET/ 3:00pm PT | Nebraska @ UCLA | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 7:30pm ET/ 4:30pm PT | Washington @ Maryland | SCORES | BTN+ |
| Sunday, January 18 | |||
| 1:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT | WVU Fisk @ Kent St | SCORES | FREE |
| 1:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT | Penn Cornell W Chester @ GW | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 1:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT | Brown @ Yale | SCORES | |
| 1:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT | BGSU @ Ball St | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 1:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT | Ursinus @ Ithaca | SCORES | FREE |
| 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT | Iowa St Air Force Bridgeport @ UNH | SCORES | |
| 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT | W Michigan @ C Michigan | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 3:00pm ET/ 12:00pm PT | Centenary @ Illinois St | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 4:00pm ET/ 1:00pm PT | Stanford @ UNC | SCORES | ACCN |
| 4:00pm ET/ 1:00pm PT | Cal @ Pitt | SCORES | ACC+ |
| 5:00pm ET/ 2:00pm PT | San Jose St @ UC Davis | SCORES | |
| 6:00pm ET/ 3:00pm PT | Auburn @ Arkansas | SCORES | SECN |
| TOP 20 SCHEDULE | |||
| Friday, January 16 | |||
| 7:00 ET/ 4:00 PT | [2] LSU @ [8] Georgia | SCORES | SECN |
| 7:00 ET/ 4:00 PT | [4] Alabama @ [1] Florida | SCORES | ESPN2 |
| 8:00 ET/ 5:00 PT | [17] Penn St @ Illinois | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 8:00 ET/ 5:00 PT | [12] Denver Arizona @ TWU | SCORES | ($) |
| 8:45 ET/ 5:45 PT | [2] Oklahoma @ [7] Missouri | SCORES | SECN |
| Saturday, January 17 | |||
| 4:00 ET/ 1:00 PT | [14] Clemson @ NC State | SCORES | ACC+ |
| 4:00 ET/ 1:00 PT | [16] Ohio St @ Rutgers | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 5:00 ET/ 2:00 PT | [5] Michigan @ [20] Minnesota | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 5:00 ET/ 2:00 PT | [17] Michigan St @ Iowa | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 6:00 ET/ 3:00 PT | Nebraska @ [9] UCLA | SCORES | BTN+ |
| Sunday, January 18 | |||
| 4:00 ET/ 1:00 PT | [13] Stanford @ [11] UNC | SCORES | ACCN |
| 4:00 ET/ 1:00 PT | [19] Cal @ Pitt | SCORES | ACC+ |
| 6:00 ET/ 3:00 PT | [6] Auburn @ [10] Arkansas | SCORES | SECN |
That’s Our History
Alabama @ Florida
This Friday, Florida will host Alabama for their annual dual meet, a contest which recalls the Great Attendance Wars of 1989.
That year, Florida had hyped its February 10th meet against defending national champion Alabama as a quest to break the college gymnastics attendance record (then owned by Utah at 9,186) and pack more than 10,000 people into the O’Connell Center.
But there was a snag. A week and a half earlier, Utah itself had hosted Alabama with the exact same idea. That January 30th meet between Utah and Alabama brought out a crowd of 13,434 that smashed the old record, as well as far exceeding the maximum possible capacity of the O’Connell Center: 11,068.
Any hope for Florida of setting a new attendance record on February 10th had gone kaput before meet day even arrived. Still, Florida did manage to achieve its original goal by delivering a crowd of 10,651, which was an SEC record at the time and a program attendance mark that Florida wouldn’t surpass until the 2008 season. Florida also scored a program record 191.950 (!) that day to upset Alabama.
And how did you feel about this historic meet, Coach Weaver? “I’m disappointed in floor, so my reaction is it wasn’t any fun.”1 Great.
Meanwhile, the current college gymnastics attendance record now stands at 16,019 from Utah’s home meet against Michigan in 2015.
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