This is one of my many problems with bowls and why I think that playoffs would be much more effective at filling the stands. If we moved to playoffs, the games could all be on weekends and at the home field of the higher ranked team in the the 16 team and 8 team rounds. That would be easy as heck to sell out, just like a regular season game. (This is all assuming we trim 1 or 2 OOC games from the schedule)
Then, in the 4 team round, it would be on a weekend in a neutral site. Finally, the championship would be on another weekend (Saturday or Sunday) at another neutral site. The playoffs would span 1 month and wouldn't have these excessively long 1 month breaks. Not to mention you would be playing for something.
I bet more people would attend those games than the stupid bowl games that honestly think people can just put their life on hold on a Tuesday (not a Monday or a Friday ... a TUESDAY) with a 1 MONTH NOTICE to go to a game that will give you NO CHANCE of being a national champion. That's what I have never understood about bowl games under the BCS. They are all just a series of consolation prizes, some better than others. Yet they are so self absorbed to think that people are planning their years around a bowl game to be able to take off multiple days of work/school to go to the game. I'm not making an excuse, but I do think that the bowls should consider only weekend games in the future for post-Jan 1st and pre-December 24th bowl games. I guarantee that # would be doubled if the game was on a weekend.
As for me, I can't go because I have a meeting with one of my funding agencies that cannot be canceled or postponed because it is with a government agency.