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College Football Attendance Averages for 2018: - JRsec - 03-25-2019 11:40 PM SEC: 1. Alabama: 101,561 2. Louisiana State: 100,819 3. Texas A&M: 99,844 4. Tennessee: 92,983 5. Georgia: 92,746 6. Auburn: 86,462 7. Florida: 82,328 8. South Carolina: 73,826 9. Arkansas: 59,740 10. Mississippi State: 58,057 11. Mississippi: 55,684 12. Kentucky: 55,117 13. Missouri: 51,465 14. Vanderbilt: 28,044 Total Attendance for all schools for 2018: 1,039,676 Average Attendance for all schools for 2018: 74,191 2017 Aveage Attendance for all schools: 75,074 NET Difference (-883) These figures are courtesy of Al.Com and are not from the NCAA When the NCAA numbers are out I'll post them but they are two months late coming out and we might suspect why. Attendance numbers are going to be at a 34 year low when released. You can check against last year's pinned thread but the SEC average dropped another 883 average attendance over last year. B1G: 1. Michigan: 110,737 2. Penn State: 105,485 3. Ohio State: 101,947 4. Nebraska: 89,034 5. Wisconsin: 77,153 6. Michigan State: 72,584 7. Iowa: 68,043 8. Purdue: 51,120 9. Northwestern: 43,873 10. Indiana: 40,965 11. Minnesota: 37,915 12. Rutgers: 37,799 13. Maryland: 35,600 14. Illinois: 34,090 Total for all schools 2018: 906,345 Total Average for all schools 2018: 64,739 2017 Average for all schools: 66,227 NET Difference (-1,488) These figures courtesy of the Big 10 Statistics Big 12: 1. Texas: 98,052 2. Oklahoma: 86,771 3. West Virginia: 58,100 4. Texas Tech: 57,648 5. Iowa State: 56,261 6. Oklahoma State: 53,948 7. Kansas State: 49,425 8. Texas Christian: 42,997 9. Baylor: 40,561 10. Kansas: 16,049 Total for all schools 2018: 559,812 Average for all schools 2018: 55,981 2017 Average for all schools: 56,852 NET Difference (-871) These figures courtesy of the Big 12 Statistics. ACC: 1. Clemson: 80,400 2. Florida State: 68,288 3. Miami: 61,469 4. Virginia Tech: 59,574 5. N.C. State: 56,855 6. Louisville: 50,251 7. North Carolina: 43,622 8. Georgia Tech: 43,087 9. Pittsburgh: 41,696 10. Virginia: 39,705 11. Boston College: 37,623 12. Syracuse: 37,043 13. Wake Forest: 26,842 14. Duke: 26,646 Total for all schools 2018: 673,101 Average for all schools 2018: 48,079 2017 Average for all schools: 48,442 NET Difference (-363) Numbers courtesy of Hokie Mark's blog PAC 12: 1. Washington: 69,816 2. Cal Los Angeles: 57,492 3. Southern Cal: 55,565 4. Arizona State: 51,745 5. Oregon: 51,456 6. Utah: 46,716 7. Arizona: 45,356 8. Colorado: 44,587 9. California: 40,907 10. Stanford: 38,514 11. Oregon State: 34,735 12. Washington State: 29,727 Total for all schools 2018: 566,616 Average for all schools 2018: 47,218 2017 Average for all schools: 49,601 NET Difference (-2,383) Numbers courtesy of a Tacoma News Report. I will update these when I have a more reliable source. RE: College Football Attendance Averages for 2018: - Hokie Mark - 03-27-2019 10:38 AM After admitting that both Clemson and Va Tech were down last year, CBS Sports made this odd statement: Quote:The ACC was the only Power Five conference whose average attendance increased in 2018. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-can-look-to-kiss-to-win-fans-back-after-lowest-average-attendance-in-22-years/ NOTE: they do not present any data to support that statement. RE: College Football Attendance Averages for 2018: - JRsec - 03-27-2019 12:03 PM (03-27-2019 10:38 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: After admitting that both Clemson and Va Tech were down last year, CBS Sports made this odd statement: Florida State knocked the ACC in the head last year. Their drop in average was in the thousands due to a lousy season. The conference as a whole was only down a fraction. Had it not been for F.S.U.'s anomalous season you might well have been the only one that was up. Clemson was on the tube literally every week. That's an issue on non key game weeks when fans take a break from actually going. Alabama suffers from the same. A note of interest: When I was researching PAC numbers the same newspaper that gave me the ones I posted (since the PAC gave no statistical data) had also run an article illustrating that the PAC numbers were actually significantly inflated. It just made me wonder how bad they really were which is why I said when actual statistical data comes out I'd be interested in making a more accurate report on them. The SEC, Big 10, Big 12, and ACC numbers all came from statistical data bases. You had just done the work so I credited you. RE: College Football Attendance Averages for 2018: - OdinFrigg - 03-28-2019 01:23 PM It is about what is expected. A couple of surprises though. Miami at #3 in the ACC @ 61,000+ is comparatively good. They had a reputation for struggling in attendance when they were not playing big names at home. Kansas @ 16,000 is quite dismal. That is way more a FCS-type figure. While it is a fb program with routine loses, losing season after losing season, they are a flagship school. KSU averages close to 50,000. While PAC12 figures are not outstanding, they have the tightest range among the schools. RE: College Football Attendance Averages for 2018: - JRsec - 03-28-2019 01:53 PM (03-28-2019 01:23 PM)OdinFrigg Wrote: It is about what is expected. A couple of surprises though. Miami was responsible for keeping the ACC's figures up. Virginia Tech and Florida State lost several thousand each in attendance vs a year ago. The 2017 thread is still pinned. It's interesting to compare the year over year. The biggest losses in the PAC were due to USC. RE: College Football Attendance Averages for 2018: - bigblueblindness - 03-28-2019 08:01 PM I can't cast stones because I only made it up for one game, but it is disappointing that UK dropped a little compared to 2017 considering the team we fielded. We do great about filling the place up for SEC games, but those non-conference ones are a tough sell to all but die-hard fans. I think replicating the suites design on the south side of the stadium on the north side and building it over several thousand of those north side upper deck seats would be a good move. Those seats rarely sell except huge games, and the wine and cheese crowd in and around Lexington that like the suites life just keeps growing. RE: College Football Attendance Averages for 2018: - USAFMEDIC - 03-29-2019 08:59 PM What is amazing to me is USC and UCLA averaging 57,000 and 55,000 respectively. RE: College Football Attendance Averages for 2018: - AllTideUp - 03-29-2019 09:33 PM (03-29-2019 08:59 PM)USAFMEDIC Wrote: What is amazing to me is USC and UCLA averaging 57,000 and 55,000 respectively. I have to wonder if the NFL returning to LA has had anything to do with the attendance decline? Of course, the biggest problem they have is mediocre play, but I think there might be some local football fans that would rather spend their money on the pros. RE: College Football Attendance Averages for 2018: - OdinFrigg - 03-30-2019 08:27 AM (03-29-2019 09:33 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:(03-29-2019 08:59 PM)USAFMEDIC Wrote: What is amazing to me is USC and UCLA averaging 57,000 and 55,000 respectively. USC and UCLA usually have very decently ranked recruiting classes. In pre-season polls, often both are ranked in the top 25, sometimes quite high. While polling can be influenced by the traditional, prominent names, success expectations get overstated time after time. It ain't the 1970s. Remember, not that long ago, sports media would claim USC has the team of the decade, or even the century, and didn't even win the PAC12? Stable and successful coaching has been an issue at both places. UCLA and USC get big attendance figures when winning ways happen. Some SEC and BIG schools draw very well even during mediocre seasons. Not those PAC schools in Los Angeles and elsewhere. |