I assume that this was to appease the Cal schools that will not allow fans. It appears that most of the Big12 games and SEC games I have seen today have 10-20 K fans in the stands. I guess they don’t want to give any team an advantage. If one school can have no fans – then no school in the conference will have fans.
Interesting side thought – what does this do to the consecutive sellout records like at the Oklahoma game today?