FBS Attendance

[USUC]

I guess I've never paid much attention to attendance numbers. Some of this surprised me.

http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/2010/Intern...ATTENDANCE.pdf

I didn't realize the PAC's numbers were this low. I knew the stadiums weren't nearly as big as the Big 10 or SEC behemoths, but I was expecting a little bit more.

BYU still had above and beyond the best attendance numbers of any Non-AQ. Better than all but two (USC and Washington) in the current PAC-12. Even with the down season. Kind of surprising that East Carolina had the second best numbers among the Non-AQs.

[USUC]

Ted Miller makes some good points about the attendance numbers of the 2 new additions though.

One of the complaints about adding Colorado and Utah to then make the Pac-12 was they didn't bring big stadiums with them. Colorado boasting the Denver market? Well, a 54,000-seat stadium says not really.

Still, if one way to assess fan passion is a lack of empty seats on Saturday in a home stadium, both Utah and Colorado rank in the top-half of the new conference. In fact, Utah joins Oregon as the only Pac-12 program that's over 100 percent capacity.

The number in parenthesis is the percent of capacity represented by the average attendance.

1. Oregon (110)
2. Utah (100.98)
3. Oregon State (99.64)
4. Arizona (95.86)
5. Washington (91.4)
6. Colorado (87.41)
7. USC (85.36)
8. California (80.6)
9. Stanford (80.08)
10. UCLA (66.25)
11. Washington State (65.25)
12. Arizona State (65.09)

How 'bout them Utes? Expect Rice-Eccles Stadium to be a place where an opponent is not going to hear a snap count. And considering Colorado has been struggling of late and fired its coach, Dan Hawkins, 87 percent of capacity seems fairly respectable.

http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/po...sion-in-pac-12

[Babs]

I didn't realize the PAC's numbers were this low.

The Southern Cal percentage is awfully surprising. Fairweather, indeed.

Even Texas, who lost nearly every home game, was over 100% for the year.

[TripletDaddy]

The Southern Cal percentage is awfully surprising. Fairweather, indeed.

Even Texas, who lost nearly every home game, was over 100% for the year.

Nothing else to do in Texas.

[Babs]

Nothing else to do in Texas.

A whole hour and that's the best you could do?

[TripletDaddy]

A whole hour and that's the best you could do?

I'm simply analyzing the data. Don't hate science.

[Art Vandelay]

Nothing else to do in Texas.

Stacy's father's baby mama either got very good or very very bad grades, her first semester (pretty easy to guess which one). As she has been around a lot more recently.

[Babs]

I'm simply analyzing the data. Don't hate science.

So there was less to do in LA last year?

http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/2009/Intern...ATTENDANCE.pdf

[TripletDaddy]

So there was less to do in LA last year?

http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/2009/Intern...ATTENDANCE.pdf

LA has since built a lot of new parks and attractions.

[Babs]

LA has since built a lot of new parks and attractions.

I hear the golf and shopping are nice.