Thursday's attendance was good, but not great. There were visible swaths of empty seats, especially in the upper deck where stretches of six or eight empty seats were visible throughout the stadium. There were a good number of Ravens fans in the crowd, and plenty of jerseys for Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson, who attended Boynton Beach High School. There was a noticeable cheer when Baltimore scored to take a 7-3 lead in the first quarter.
In a tribute to the loyalty and love the alumni have for their schools, an estimated crowd of 14,000 showed up Friday night at East Los Angeles College for the 90th East L.A. Classic between Garfield and Roosevelt. That's the largest regular-season attendance for a high school football game in California this season. Garfield delivered a 37-30 victory for Patrick Vargas, a former Bulldogs quarterback who's in his first season as head coach after years working as an assistant under Lorenzo Hernandez.