No way. I could have easily walked over to the home side with 4 people and sat up at the 50 yard line towards the tower. The two end sections on the home side were not much more than half full and the next sections over maybe a little better. I was talking to my friends figuring it must be a late arriving crowd on a Friday night and it never get much fuller.
Again, I have been to plenty of Wake games were it was a virtual sellout and there were several thousand less people at the UNC game.
Yeah. Capacity, counting the hill, is 34,500. As you said, there were a few thousand short of capacity, so probably 31-32,000.