Annual Empty Report - 2016-17 Edition
Well folks, the grandaddy of all CFB magazines is now on the newstands, Phil Steele CFB - 2016 edition. Its a bit pricey at $13, but PS doesn't compromise the facts and stats to produce a cheaper product. This magazine is for the serious CFB fan.
I have done the "empty report" for several years now to show the relation of the BCS/P5 to the "others" - of which we are one. To clarify, the empty report is a comparison of empty seats between TU and some selected other schools. I usually selected the P5/BCS schools to compare, but this year I have decided to include our AAC conference brothers as well. Now remember, "empty" refers to the "average" attendance difference between the official number of attendees listed and the stadium capacity of the home field.
Now of course, the success of the teams is a huge factor and you must remember we were picked last in the AAC in 2015, yet ended up in a very good bowl at the end of the year. So the stats should reflect the idea we started out with low expectations.
School--------Stadium Cap-------2015 Avg Att-------Difference
Tulsa------------30,000-------------19,522--------------10,378
Houston---------40,000-------------33,980---------------6,020
Navy-------------34,000------------32,338---------------1,662
Memphis---------59,308------------43,802--------------15,506
SMU--------------32,000------------20,831--------------11,169
Tulane------------30,000------------22,930---------------7,070
Cincinnati--------40,000------------37,096----------------2,904
USF---------------65,857------------25,578--------------39,281
Temple-----------69,176------------44,159--------------25,017
UCONN-----------40,000------------28,224--------------11,776
ECU---------------50,000------------43,274---------------6,726
UCF---------------44,200------------30,065--------------14,141
Source - Phil Steele CFB Magazine
So that is the breakdown of AAC 2015 home attendance. Next I will compare our (TU) attendace to some other BCS/P5 schools.
More Later.
(This post was last modified: 07-05-2017 09:52 PM by rabidTU2.)
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