2014 P5 Attendance

Biggest winner so far Maryland 25% increase
UCLA, A&M, Tenn, LSU, USC, Cuse, Colorado all see big jumps

Biggest declines include
UVA, Pitt, Miami, Cal, Kansas and more

For reference.

*Top Indy - BYU 58,327 31 Highest attendance

Top G5 - ECU 46,920 44 Highest attendance
- UCF 44,510 49

Only two G5 with 40k+ attendance


*Notre Dame was included already in the list

Miami had Florida at home in there first 5 games last year and Pitt had Florida State. I'm sure that had something to do with their declines in attendance.

I think the rising rates of downright extortion to sell tickets and parking spaces will catch up eventually.

(10-01-2014 12:07 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Miami had Florida at home in there first 5 games last year and Pitt had Florida State. I'm sure that had something to do with their declines in attendance.

You mean the fact that Miami has no fans that care to attend their games has nothing to do with it?

Maryland's two home games played so far were against teams with a large concentration of DC alumni (JMU, WVU). Those two games last year in Byrd at this time were against FIU and ODU.

(10-01-2014 12:43 PM)Hokie4Skins Wrote:  Maryland's two home games played so far were against teams with a large concentration of DC alumni (JMU, WVU). Those two games last year in Byrd at this time were against FIU and ODU.

This is a good point. I think there were probably about 6-8k JMU fans at that game and it looked like WVU brought at least 15k for their showdown with UMD.

I imagine the trend will continue because Ohio State has many fans and alums in the DC area, which is probably the most transient area of the country.

They should honestly tarp off the whole upper deck for Miami games to cap it at a more small private school friendly 45K which is in line with their current attendance which is actually pretty good for most P5 privates to be between 45-50K attendance with USC and ND as the only exceptions to the rule among the P5

(10-01-2014 12:17 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  I think the rising rates of downright extortion to sell tickets and parking spaces will catch up eventually.

Look at the link in the article on "right-sizing." It talks a little about "right-pricing."

(10-01-2014 12:18 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 12:07 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Miami had Florida at home in there first 5 games last year and Pitt had Florida State. I'm sure that had something to do with their declines in attendance.

You mean the fact that Miami has no fans that care to attend their games has nothing to do with it?

What are talking about? Everybody in the upper deck is just wearing a head to toe orange gimp suit.

(10-01-2014 01:20 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  They should honestly tarp off the whole upper deck for Miami games to cap it at a more small private school friendly 45K which is in line with their current attendance which is actually pretty good for most P5 privates to be between 45-50K attendance with USC and ND as the only exceptions to the rule among the P5

That's not a bad idea...

I don't know why people act surprised at Miami's attendance. Attendance wasn't great during the championship runs either. This is what usually happens in a pro-sport towns. "If you win, they will come" is not always a given.

(10-01-2014 12:18 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 12:07 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Miami had Florida at home in there first 5 games last year and Pitt had Florida State. I'm sure that had something to do with their declines in attendance.

You mean the fact that Miami has no fans that care to attend their games has nothing to do with it?

I'm saying that the reason there was a decline from last year through 5 games is that they had Florida fans filling up the stadium.

Attendance in general is so low because Miami has no fans that care to attend games.

Playing at the Marlins stadium would help.

(10-01-2014 12:43 PM)Hokie4Skins Wrote:  Maryland's two home games played so far were against teams with a large concentration of DC alumni (JMU, WVU). Those two games last year in Byrd at this time were against FIU and ODU.

The misleading and funny part of the OP's thread title is that Maryland's 46,000 actually drags down the Big 10's average attendance numbers. It is only a boost for Maryland whose attendance figures will damage the Big 10's average, and significantly damage them at that.

Just for Kicks:

P5 Private Schools attendance comparison



-Notre Dame - 80,795

-Southern Cal - 75,279



-Baylor - 45,384

-Miami - 44,777

-TCU - 42,026

-Syracuse- 40,850



Northwestern - 35,794

Vanderbilt - 35,705

Boston College - 33,506



Wake Forest - 27,524

Duke - 25,538

A sample size of two doesn't usually have much statistical significance.

(10-01-2014 10:20 AM)Piratelife4me Wrote:  2014 P5 Attendance

Biggest winner so far Maryland 25% increase
UCLA, A&M, Tenn, LSU, USC, Cuse, Colorado all see big jumps

Biggest declines include
UVA, Pitt, Miami, Cal, Kansas and more

Yet another misleading headline about attendance. The headline says "College football attendance down 1 percent in 2014," but if you do the math that they provide for you you find that P5 attendance is up 0.12%.

The average per game for all FBS programs very well might be down, but that's because there's 3 new FBS teams this year - App State, GA Southern, and ODU. Even if those 3 averaged 25,000 (which they don't), that would be enough to pull the entire NCAA average per game down by about 1%.

*math: 45,192 (last year's average) *128 = 5,784,576
5,784,576 + 25,000*3 = 5,859,576
5,859,576 / 131 = 44,730, which is 1.02% lower than 45,192

(10-01-2014 03:58 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 12:18 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 12:07 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Miami had Florida at home in there first 5 games last year and Pitt had Florida State. I'm sure that had something to do with their declines in attendance.

You mean the fact that Miami has no fans that care to attend their games has nothing to do with it?

I'm saying that the reason there was a decline from last year through 5 games is that they had Florida fans filling up the stadium.

Attendance in general is so low because Miami has no fans that care to attend games.

I realize that. But attendance at Miami is such a joke that I figured everyone could use a laugh at their expense.

UpStreamRedTeam's comment that all their fans were wearing orange prison jump suits was pretty good too.

(10-01-2014 06:40 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 03:58 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 12:18 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 12:07 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Miami had Florida at home in there first 5 games last year and Pitt had Florida State. I'm sure that had something to do with their declines in attendance.

You mean the fact that Miami has no fans that care to attend their games has nothing to do with it?

I'm saying that the reason there was a decline from last year through 5 games is that they had Florida fans filling up the stadium.

Attendance in general is so low because Miami has no fans that care to attend games.

I realize that. But attendance at Miami is such a joke that I figured everyone could use a laugh at their expense.

And Howard Schnellenberger is not walking through the door to save them again!

(10-01-2014 05:58 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 10:20 AM)Piratelife4me Wrote:  2014 P5 Attendance

Biggest winner so far Maryland 25% increase
UCLA, A&M, Tenn, LSU, USC, Cuse, Colorado all see big jumps

Biggest declines include
UVA, Pitt, Miami, Cal, Kansas and more

Yet another misleading headline about attendance. The headline says "College football attendance down 1 percent in 2014," but if you do the math that they provide for you you find that P5 attendance is up 0.12%.

The average per game for all FBS programs very well might be down, but that's because there's 3 new FBS teams this year - App State, GA Southern, and ODU. Even if those 3 averaged 25,000 (which they don't), that would be enough to pull the entire NCAA average per game down by about 1%.

*math: 45,192 (last year's average) *128 = 5,784,576
5,784,576 + 25,000*3 = 5,859,576
5,859,576 / 131 = 44,730, which is 1.02% lower than 45,192

And the number of schools has gone from 119 in 2008 to 128 now. And they have added 21 schools since the last time a school dropped (Pacific in 1995).

And expansion was a negative for every conference in average attendance. Even the SEC, adding Missouri and Texas A&M, lowered their average attendance.