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NCAA Football 2019 Attendance, Week 14: Rivalry Week
Week 14 saw average attendance skyrocket to 34,666 from 22,542 across all of Division I, on account of FCS Playoffs beginning. This week we still had two games under 2,000 fans. Let’s take a look at how everyone else fared, shall we? Worst overall Division I attendance: 1,660 – Albany vs Central Connecticut State. The…
NCAA Football 2019 Attendance, Week 13: Lowest FBS and FCS Attendance of the Year
Week 13 saw average attendance stay flat at 22,542 from 22,203 across all of Division I, the level where it had been for the few weeks prior to last week. This week we had three games under 1,000 fans, including one barely above 500. Let’s take a look at how everyone else fared, shall we?…
NCAA Football 2019 Attendance, Week 9: Sub-1000 FCS Game
Week nine saw average attendance drop by nearly 1,000 from 24,044 to 23,087 across all of Division I, largely on the back of poor weather throughout the midwest, I’m guessing. Five games were below 10,000 in the FBS, three in the MAC and two in Conference USA. Let’s take a look at how everyone else…
NCAA Football 2019 Attendance, Week 6: Over Capacity
Week six saw average attendance drop from 25,909 to 24,777 across all of Division I, helped by a couple of games that were over 150% of stadium capacity in the Northeast. Don’t tell the fire marshall! Let’s take a look at how everyone else fared, shall we? Worst overall Division I attendance: 1,328 – Arkansas-Pine Bluff…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 13: Championship Week and FCS Playoffs Round Two
FBS Conference Championships happened this week, with another smattering of teams rescheduling games in an attempt to make a bowl. While that happened, top draw FCS playoff matchups happened with a berth in the quarterfinals on the line. Lots of reasons to see good football, but still plenty of empty seats. Let’s take a look,…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 12: MAC West Champions, Even if Fans Didn’t See
Week twelve brings us in closer to rivalry week where attendance should peak, but even despite interesting scheduling by the SEC, attendance was up to 26,528, a gain of over 2,000 fans over last week. Even with that, we still had an FCS game below a thousand fans and an FBS Division winner playing in…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 11: Big Ten, Little Crowd
Week eleven was marked by cold weather nationwide, but with it attendance found a way to rise 355 fans to an average of 24,350 last week. Even still, it was a story of “haves” and “have nots” with an FCS game below a thousand fans, a FBS game with fewer than 6,000. And best of…