If you're on this site you're a fan. And there are a great many college fans. I saw them in Seattle, Baton Rouge and Iowa City among others. The stadiums were full and guess what? On Black Friday.
Your post wasn't directed at those only on this site. You were expressing disbelief at the reasons being cited for possible low attendance. I would guess that the reasons would apply to mostly those not on this site.
LSU vs Arkansas are not really being used as a comparison, are they. Maybe a more equivalent would be the Mt West game between the undefeated and BCS bound Fresno and rival SJS. Attendance pretty much like ours with lots of open sections and spaces between people even in the "full" sections, like ours. Maybe a better comparison will be today's Rice game on a Saturday and and compare to ours on a Friday noon. People offered real reasons we would not see huge numbers especially for those casual fans that are not registered to this board. Looking at the crowd, some of those reasons cited were likely accurate.