Tag: NCAA Football
NCAA Football 2019 Attendance, Week 1: Full-ish House
Week one couldn’t have asked for better crowds. A Labor Day weekend with big crowds from coast to coast, with only one game moved (unnecessarily, mind you, Florida State) due to weather, down from the last two years. The season has begun, what are we waiting for, let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall…
2019 NCAA Football Travel: How Far Every FBS Team Will Go This Year
Every fall, the college football season fires up and gives fans an opportunity to eschew responsibility in favor of sitting on the couch every Saturday for 15 weeks. What a time to be alive. With 838 games on the docket for the regular season, plus conference championships and bowls, all of our couch time comes at the…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 5: Disappointing Homecoming in Lawrence
We’re into the swing of things here through week five, with plenty of good games on the slate. Even with that, average attendance was 26,365 for the week, a decrease of 1,828 over last week and the lowest attended week of the season thus far. Let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division I…
NCAA Football Attendance, 2017 Week 7: Smoky Skies and Thunderstorms
Time again to take a look at NCAA Football attendance for the last week. Average attendance was down to 26,767 this week, with a lot of high attendance programs on the bye. Let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division I attendance week 7: 946 – Valparaiso vs Marist. 49-15 Valpo With thunderstorms in the area,…
NCAA Football Attendance: 2017 Season, Week 3!
Hey, it’s time to take a look at NCAA Football attendance for the last week. The good news? Division I averaged 29,810 in attendance last week. The bad news? We lead off with an FCS team playing at an NAIA field, so you know there will be good stuff. We’re talking sub-1,000 fans in attendance.…
NCAA Football Conference Championship week: Lowest attended games
Not much action this week, but still more than 3 games, which means there were 3 lowest attended games. Here they are, and as always, numbers are ANNOUNCED figures only. 3. Northern Illinois vs Bowling Green– The MAC has made plenty of appearances on these lists and it should be no surprise that their…
The Case for Ohio State to make the CFB Playoff
Let me begin by pointing out that I hate Ohio State with every fiber of my being. I grew up a Michigan fan, I attended Purdue, there was no space for appreciation of the Buckeyes in my mind. But even while blinded by hatred, I can tell you one simple thing: Ohio State is…
NCAA Football Championship Week: Games that will/won’t suck
Rivalry week is done. There were some goodies, and some not so goodies. Let’s see how I did last week: Suck: Clemson 37, South Carolina 32. Not suck but not as close as the final score leads you to believe South Florida 44, UCF 3. Definitely suck Memphis 63, SMU 0. Woof. Major suck Clemson trying their best…
Betting against my alma mater, final roundup!
Purdue once again after covering got a reasonable line this week. Indiana was 10 point favorites in West Lafayette. I was out of town for the weekend, which was fortunate since my home internet went out for 3 days and my phone data was throttled because of German bureaucracy. Lucky for me, from the…
Week 13 (Rivalry week!) NCAA Football Predictions: Games that will/won’t suck
Week 12 was certainly an interesting one. After I made fun of the SEC for scheduling FCS opponents this late in the season, South Carolina went out and lost to The Citadel. Welp. Let’s see how I did last week: Suck: Florida 20, FAU 13 (OT). Definitely not suck. Florida continues to play down to…
Least attended NCAA Football Games: Week 12
After the success of last week’s lowest attended games, let’s take another look this week, shall we? The three lowest attended FBS football games this week, per announced figures as always: 3. Western Michigan at Northern Illinois – MACtion was not on the schedule this week for those in DeKalb, but there are a litany of excuses…
Betting against my alma mater, week 12: confirmed for losing
Purdue traveled to snowy Iowa City this weekend, and got a huge gift from Vegas. 23.5 points! In what was forecast to be inclement weather! With low temps! I knew from the start this bet was lost before it was even placed. That’s probably why, for some reason, I forgot to screenshot the actual…