It's justified you're just nit picking. And if the bowl game had 26k there, and 24000 of them were BYU fans... I'm pretty sure you're not being honest in your assessment. I was at the Bowl game, and there wasn't more than 1000 UAB fans there, and I'm being generous by putting it at 1000. It was very bare on their side of the stadium, and there were BYU fans that were on their side of the stadium, which was mostly empty.
So if that bowl game, in Louisiana, picked up 24k BYU fans... that's an incredible draw to a very low tier bowl game in a crap destination.