Originally Posted by
rahc
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Originally Posted by
Doug Masters 
Typical Big Ten game....empty stadium. Doh!
Actually here's the 2009 attendance for the NCAA (Big 10 teams in red)
2009 NCAA DIVISION I FBS ATTENDANCE TEAM LEADERS
Rank School G Attendance Average
1. Michigan 8 871,464 108,933
2. Penn St. 8 856,066 107,008
3. Ohio St. 7 736,830 105,261
4. Texas 6 607,049 101,175
5. Tennessee 8 793,760 99,220
6. Georgia 6 556,476 92,746
7. LSU 7 647,420 92,489
8. Alabama 7 644,084 92,012
9. Florida 7 634,446 90,635
10. Nebraska 7 601,216 85,888
11. Southern California 6 508,796 84,799
12. Oklahoma 6 508,670 84,778
13. Auburn 8 676,911 84,614
14. Notre Dame 7 565,565 80,795
15. Wisconsin 7 560,764 80,109
Rank School G Attendance Average
16. Texas A&M 7 537,602 76,800
17. Clemson 7 530,553 75,793
18. South Carolina 7 527,580 75,369
19. Michigan St. 7 523,186 74,741
20. Florida St. 6 446,067 74,345
21. Iowa 7 491,499 70,214
22. Kentucky 7 487,156 69,594
23. Virginia Tech 6 397,398 66,233
24. Arkansas 7 455,783 65,112
25. UCLA 6 387,283 64,547
26. Washington 7 450,491 64,356
27. BYU 6 385,416 64,236
28. Missouri 6 384,719 64,120
29. Illinois 6 357,267 59,545
30. California 6 356,830 59,472
I'm guessing the Georgia attendance is a typo. Source -
http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats...dance/2009.pdf
Not bad, 7 out of the top 30 and 3 out of the top 10. Almost as good as the SEC's 8 out of the top 30 and 5 out of the top 10!
Of course Ole Miss isn't shown but I think we all would like to hang out at an Ole Miss game.
FOOTBALL TRASH TALK!!!!
ahhhh.
You know though, out of all of those stadiums, if I was a visiting fan or a visiting football team I'd give anything to play in any of those 100,000+ seat stadiums then to ever, ever, ever go down to the cesspool that is LSU and play in that monster. That place would seat 200,000 if you let it, and it makes 92,000 sound like 250,000. Its really the worst place to have to play on a Saturday night and also the tackiest.
Best part, is when LSU informs the visiting teams not to identify their vehicles as being out of state and that they cannot investigate damage done to your vehicle during the game.
Originally Posted by
Check Essential
Interesting stats.
Big Ten 1,2,3. And the next 3 Big Ten teams (Wisconsin, Iowa, Mich St) would be much higher on the list if their stadium capacity allowed it. They sell out pretty much every game.
Gotta admit however, the same could be said of several SEC teams.
Every game a sell out.
I think Tennessee and VaTech were considering playing at the NASCAR track in Bristol to set the record for the largest attendance to a football game. Maybe someone on here knows but like 150,000?