1. PSU = 46,000 students and 200,000 people living in immediate area.
2. ND =10,000 students and maybe 100,000 people living in immediate area.
Beaver stadium is 40% full with students alone while ND is filled about 12%.
3. State College is 3 hours from Pittsburgh,Philadelphia and Baltimore, 4 hours from DC and Cleveland and 4.5 from NY.
ND is 1.5 from Chicago, 2 hours from Indy, 3.5 from Detroit and 4 hours from Cleveland.
Even assuming "equal pain" in going to a game, you want to take a stab at the populations of those respective cities to guess what the numerical difference is?.
4. Notre Dame grads are spread across the country while a much higher % of PSU grads (plus the fact that it is 4 x the size of ND) live much closer to Happy Valley than ND grads live to South Bend.
There was a reason...called the east coast media markets where for decades PSU is big college game in town.....that the Big 10 desperately wanted PSU in the Big 10.
Poor example, poor example. Try again.