SEC lands 6 teams in top 10 of average home game attendance
The SEC continues to have a strong presence in college football attendance figures, and the conference landed 6 teams among the top 10 this season by average.
While college football attendance has seen declines, the SEC remains strong, according to D1 Ticker.
1. Michigan 110,246
2. Penn State 107,379
3. Ohio State 104,663
4. LSU 100,596
5. Tennessee 100,532
6. Texas 100,242
7. Alabama 98,981
8. Texas A&M 97,213
9. Georgia 92,746
10. Florida 87,180
Florida saw a year-over-year increase of 2.35%, while Georgia was flat, and Texas A&M lost 5.51%. Alabama gained by just 0.26%. However, Tennessee saw the largest jump in the SEC among these teams with the largest crowds, at 16.38%, as it was the most thrilling Tennessee season in some 2 decades. Meanwhile, LSU saw the second-highest at 6.10%.
First-year coaches in the SEC saw plenty of support. Florida opened the season with a sellout in Gainesville against Utah, a thrilling 29-26 win as it was a much-anticipated national game, and later hosted nationally-ranked LSU to the Swamp later in the year.
Georgia continues to be a difficult place to play, and it hasn’t lost a home game since October 2019 against South Carolina.
The struggles for Texas A&M were the most obvious drop-off for attendance across the league.
and why was uga ‘flat?’ b/c they’re on a nice little sellout streak.
Yeah a sellout that is 10,000 less than Tennessee.
This would be a relevant comment if Tennessee had averaged 92000 a game for 25 years. Every Ga game but 1 this century have sold out.
Tenn hasn’t sold out more than 1 or 2 games a year since Fulmer got fired. Tenn is nowhere close to Ga when it comes to attendance. Or anything else for that matter
Tennessee on a low attendance day would still have more than Georgia. Tennessee’s home capacity is that much bigger then Georgia. As I said before a sellout for Georgia is a low day for Tennessee.
Capacity means nothing if you only sell out 1 or 2 games a year. Ibet Tenn hasn’t sold out 10 games in the past 10 years
I can’t remember there ever being a discussion among UGA fans about “empty Sanford”, but I do remember UT fans leaving a stadium half empty for several games at the end of the Butch Jones era.
The hillbillies need to head back to hills. They have nothing to talk about.
Numbers confuse hillbillies
Tennessee has an entire season where y’all averaged under 90k. Your brand staying power/support isn’t what you think it is.
Even last year we averaged more than 90K a home game. Over the last 20 years UT was still among the top 10-15 in the country on average attendance when we was at our worse. This year we sold out every home game except Ball State. And even the Ball State game seen us pack 100K in. We even sold out games against UTM. We will continue to our pace the SEC in attendance as long as Heupel is HC.
It’s good to be ‘flat’ when you sell out every game. The Swamp used to be that way.
And it will be that way again soon imo
Only one team had to play at three of these venues.
That was Bama who lost two of those games and should have lost the third. In past 2 or 3 years seems like the Tide doesn’t play well in true road games.
Yes, you’re correct. No team in the country played a tougher schedule away from home than Bama did. It’s really hard to win games in hostile road environments.
I want a recount on the TN/LSU count… Something looks fishy there. Dominion probably oversaw the final tally counts.
LSU averaged 275 more than the listed capacity. Standing room only for some.
Are y’all actually arguing over attendance? Now that’s hard to believe.