Week 6: Eastern Washington @ UC Davis 2-3 years ago I would not have predicted that we'd be having serious conversations about reaching student section capacity so soon. Regarding "how", it's probably the same procedure they've used to turn students away at one or two ESPN basketball games. I'm guessing it's a judgement call to close the student gate (there's only one I think) once the AP/general admit section looks full.
Do we know how significant the capacity figure is? Like it could be just a fire code calculation and not an actual number of seats. Or it could not include endzones.
Either way, 10k is an amazing turnout and enough to get the stadium rocking.