(06-28-2019 04:05 PM)DavidSt Wrote: The ACC northeast fans of Boston College, Syracuse and Pittsburgh do not think they belong in the ACC since it is mostly a southeast conference. If the schools listened to the fans and alum? We may have seen a northeast P6 conferences. We may have seen a Boise State instead of Colorado in the PAC 12. It is why football attendance have gone down in the ACC, AAC, and PAC 12. The Big East football should have spilt from the C7 way before 2010 and added schools. ACC do have an issue with 3 of their schools sitting on an island by their own. UConn, UMass, Buffalo and West Virginia could help the ACC on the long run or the northern teams will bolt.
Attendance going down in the ACC? Not true.
In 2018 the ACC and the Big 12 were the only conferences in the P5 to show increases in average conference attendance.
http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_r...e/2018.pdf
Conference attendance includes home games and neutral
site contests between two teams in the same conference.
Independents total includes home game totals and neutral site
games between two independent teams.
No. Conference
Total
Teams Games 2018 Attend. Avg.
Change
In Avg.
1. Southeastern 14 101 7,473,374 73,994 -1,080
2. Big Ten 14 97 6,341,435 65,376 -851
3. Big 12 10 67 3,818,091 56,986
134
4. Atlantic Coast 14 91 4,442,603 48,820
378
5. Pac-12 12 78 3,622,480 46,442 -3,159
6. American 12 75 2,167,657 28,902 233
7. Mountain West 12 75 1,789,644 23,862 -1,101
8. Conference USA 14 83 1,566,570 18,874 -374
9. Sun Belt# 10 58 1,008,118 17,381 -462