Here are a few interesting attendance percent capacity numbers after week 5. State fell off a little bit down to 99.23%, 2nd in the ACC and 22nd in the Power 5. There are 66 Power 5 (plus Notre Dame & BYU) schools, 7 of the bottom 11 are ACC schools (UVA, Pitt, Miami, Duke, BC, […]
College football attendance
Aluminum Watch – Early Season ACC Attendance
With the recent attention to the amount of visible aluminum at a couple of local stadiums as well as discussion about the decline in college football attendance, I thought I’d take a look at some early season ACC attendance numbers. Some observations: Compared to percent capacity from the 2014 season, attendance is down 23% at […]
College Football’s (Continued) Student Attendance Problem
College football attendance — specifically, student attendance — has been on the decline, and even hit a 14-year low in 2014 (for background, click here). Previous studies suggested a major factor was poor cell service inside stadiums (the age old debate: if they couldn’t post it to Instagram, were they really there?). But new studies […]
College Football Attendance Continues Decline
College football attendance continues to decline each year, hitting a 14-year low in 2014. We can only speculate the exact reasons for the decline, which are probably some combination of chronically poor non-conference home scheduling, endless TV coverage and the poor cell reception stopping an entire generation from updating Instagram. Also, traditional powers Texas, Michigan […]
SEC Concerned about Declining Student Attendance
I originally saw this tweeted by Stewart Mandel (@slmandel). To the chagrin of local radio personalities, State — vs. Louisiana Tech on Labor Day Saturday, at noon, with a heat index in mid-90s — isn’t the only program with attendance concerns. Interesting read about the SEC’s concern in the recent trend showing declining student attendance […]
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