CFN 2006 Program Analysis - By Attendance

CFN 2006 Three-Year Program Analysis - Attendance

2006 Program Rankings | 1 to 10 | 11 to 25 | 26-39 | 40-59 | 60-79 |  80-99 | 100-119
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- Attendance. How much fan support is there? Obviously some stadiums are far bigger than others so this might not seem fair, but it's a good indication of interest in the program counting the average attendance for home dates from 2003 to 2005 and divided by 10,000 to get the score. For example, Iowa averaged 68,927 fans per game over the last three seasons, so the program gets a score of 6.89. 
Why this is important: Some stadiums are bigger than others and some teams get more support, but that's the point. It's a big deal to the bottom line of an athletic department, and the relevance of the football program to recruits and the national media, to get 100,000+ butts in the seats at places like Ohio State, Tennessee and Penn State. How can Eastern Michigan and its average of 11,000 fans per game compete when compared to Michigan and its average of 112,000 fans? Exactly.  

	Team	Attendance Score
1	Michigan	11.10
2	Tennessee	10.64
3	Ohio State	10.49
4	Penn State	10.45
5	Georgia	9.25
6	LSU	9.13
7	Florida	8.97
8	USC	8.44
9	Auburn	8.41
10	Oklahoma	8.40
11	Texas	8.33
12	Florida State	8.29
13	Alabama	8.20
14	Wisconsin	8.11
15	Notre Dame	8.08
16	South Carolina	8.04
17	Clemson	7.77
18	Nebraska	7.76
19	Texas A&M	7.68
20	Michigan State	7.39
21	Iowa	6.89
22	Washington	6.70
23	Arkansas	6.52
24	Virginia Tech	6.51
25	Kentucky	6.33
26	Purdue	6.17
27	Virginia	6.10
28	UCLA	6.05
29	BYU	5.94
30	Arizona State	5.93
31	Oregon	5.81
32	Mississippi	5.64
33	Missouri	5.63
34	West Virginia	5.50
35	California	5.42
	Miami	5.42
37	NC State	5.41
38	Maryland	5.17
39	Texas Tech	5.11
40	Georgia Tech	5.04
	North Carolina	5.04
42	Colorado	4.96
43	Illinois	4.91
44	Arizona	4.88
45	Kansas State	4.72
46	Pittsburgh	4.70
47	Minnesota	4.69
48	Mississippi State	4.64
49	Oklahoma State	4.55
50	Iowa State	4.43
51	Utah	4.24
52	Boston College	4.17
53	Stanford	4.15
54	Kansas	4.12
55	Memphis	4.06
56	Syracuse	3.95
57	Louisville	3.94
58	Fresno State	3.92
59	Connecticut	3.88
60	Oregon State	3.82
61	Air Force	3.77
62	New Mexico	3.69
63	Hawaii	3.64
	UTEP	3.64
65	Indiana	3.43
66	Baylor	3.31
	Washington St	3.31
68	TCU	3.23
69	East Carolina	3.22
70	South Florida	3.21
71	San Diego State	3.16
72	Navy	3.14
73	Army	3.12
74	Vanderbilt	3.09
75	Rutgers	3.05
76	Northwestern	2.99
77	Boise State	2.96
78	Wake Forest	2.93
79	Colorado State	2.91
80	Southern Miss	2.85
81	Marshall	2.68
82	Northern Illinois	2.43
83	UCF	2.29
84	Toledo	2.26
85	UNLV	2.25
86	Cincinnati	2.18
87	UAB	2.11
88	Tulane	2.09
89	Tulsa	2.06
90	Troy	2.06
91	Duke	2.00
92	Houston	1.93
93	Miami Univ.	1.87
94	Nevada	1.82
95	SMU	1.79
	Western Mich	1.79
97	Bowling Green	1.78
98	Temple	1.78
99	UL Lafayette	1.77
100	Wyoming	1.76
101	Arkansas State	1.71
102	North Texas	1.68
103	Ohio	1.66
104	Louisiana Tech	1.64
105	New Mexico St	1.56
106	Florida Int.	1.55
107	Rice	1.55
108	Utah State	1.51
109	Central Mich	1.49
110	Idaho	1.46
111	Ball State	1.40
112	UL Monroe	1.35
	Akron	1.35
114	MTSU	1.30
115	Florida Atlantic	1.15
116	San Jose State	1.14
117	Eastern Mich	1.03
118	Buffalo	1.02
119	Kent State	1.00