Clemson Home Games Draw 6.7 Times the Population You could make the statement Clemson is the most rabid football town in Division I. The data used compares average stadium attendance to city population. Last year Clemson ranked 15th in the nation in attendance average with an 80,152 figure. The town of Clemson has a population of just 11,939. That means Clemson's average football attendance in 2001 was 6.7 times the population of the city. A look to the 2001 attendance figures and the most recent city population totals shows that only six Division I schools had a higher average attendance than the city population.

Rk School City 2001 Attend Pop Ratio
1. Clemson Clemson, SC 80,152 11,939 6.71
2. Penn State State College, PA 107,576 38,420 2.80
3. Auburn Auburn, AL 85,449 42,987 1.99
4. Virginia Charlottesville, VA 56,283 40,002 1.41
5. Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 50,762 39,573 1.28
6. Iowa Iowa City, IA 64,665 62,220 1.04


How do you Clemson fans feel about that? Makes me rather proud.

That has got to be the best job of spinning something I have ever seen. Good job.

Spinning? I didn't write it. CBSsportsline came up with this and I don't see any spinning involved. The fact remains that we have a very solid attendance at Clemson FB games each season. CBS and even more importantly, the NCAA, tend to agree with me.

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What a stupid method.

I think it's a very interesting method.

Granted, it's not and should not be the only method used to detail attendance figures.

I just think it says a lot about Clemson.