The UIL has not announced where next season’s football state championship games will be played.

Here is a reason for keeping the games at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

The Class 6A Division I state championship game, in which Galena Park North Shore beat Duncanville 31-17 in a matchup of nationally ranked teams, had an attendance of 47,818. That was more fans than attended 27 of the 39 college bowl games that had been played going into Monday night’s Mobile (Ala.) Bowl.

That is 69% of the bowl games.

The North Shore-Duncanville game had a larger crowd than the Outback Bowl, which drew 45,652 on New Year’s Day to watch Minnesota beat Auburn in a matchup of top-20 teams. The attendance for the 6A Division I championship game also surpassed that of the Camping World Bowl, which had 46,948 on hand to watch nationally ranked Notre Dame beat Iowa State.

The Cotton Bowl Classic, in which Penn State beat Memphis 53-39 in a matchup of top-20 teams on Dec. 28 at AT&T Stadium, drew only 7,010 more fans than Duncanville vs. North Shore.

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The 6A Division II state title game, which followed North Shore vs. Duncanville on Dec. 21, had a crowd of 35,278 to watch Austin Westlake beat Denton Guyer 24-0. That surpassed the attendance for 19 bowl games, including the Las Vegas Bowl (featuring nationally ranked Boise State), the Independence Bowl (featuring Miami) and the Boca Raton Bowl (featuring SMU).

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Official attendance for Duncanville-Galena Park North Shore is 47,818.#txhsfb pic.twitter.com/5HV5XU24Vi — SportsDayHS (@SportsDayHS) December 22, 2019

The average attendance for the 12 state championship games, all played at AT&T Stadium, was 18,125. That was higher than two of the six bowl games played in Texas — the Frisco Bowl (12,120 at Toyota Stadium) and the SERVPRO First Responders Bowl (13,164 at SMU’s Ford Stadium).

The three state title games played on Dec. 21, including the Aledo vs. Fort Bend Marshall 5A Division II final (crowd of 29,138), had a combined attendance of 112,234.

AT&T Stadium has hosted the UIL state title games eight of the last nine years. The only exception was in 2015, when they were held at NRG Stadium in Houston and the average per-game attendance was 13,524.

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