Several compounding factors explain why attendance figures at UCLA home football games sometimes appear lower relative to massive Midwestern or Southern state universities. The primary challenge is the twenty-six-mile distance separating the Westwood campus from the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, making game-day transit burdensome for undergraduate students without personal vehicles. Furthermore, the massive seating capacity of the venue can make even respectable crowds of forty or fifty thousand spectators look visually sparse inside the historic bowl.