Attendance: SEC vs. college football

I call BS on their reported attendance numbers. Plus they benefit from having schools where it's always warm. If you factored in weather the B1G attendance is more impressive. 

 
10 minutes before kickoff vs a division opponent on homecoming.  #itjustmeansmore

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Huskers93-97 said:
Guessing if you took the top 6 schools in each conference  big 10 is way ahead. We have a couple schools over 100k
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So does the SEC. I'm too lazy to look up actual attendance numbers (assume the link's numbers are right I guess although they don't seem to be) but here's capacity numbers:

Texas A&M Capacity 102,733 //// Michigan Capacity 107,601

Alabama Capacity 101,821 //// Penn State Capacity 106,572

LSU Capacity 102,321 //// OSU Capacity 102,082

Tennessee Capacity 102,455 //// Nebraska Capacity 89,959

Georgia Capacity 92,746 //// Wisconsin Capacity 80,321

Florida Capacity 88,548 //// Michigan State Capacity 75,005

That's top 6.

 



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Big Ten schools had 16 of the 17 highest football attendances in '18. Texas A&M was next at No. 18. Source: NCAA.





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Per NCAA, only Oklahoma, Nebraska, Georgia, Utah and Michigan finished 100%-plus in capacity in 2018. In '17, those schools were Ohio St, Penn St, Mich, Nebraska, Oregon, K-State, Okla St, Utah, Navy, Old Dominion.




 








 
In the last 2 years not a single SEC team has gone over 100% capacity. The Big Ten has had 4 schools do it once and Michigan and Nebraska did it twice - and the Big Ten teams that have gone over 100% have the four largest stadiums in the conference. 







 


 
 
 
The larger population in the south has to play a roll in this. They can build or add on to current stadiums and add capacity because they have the demographics to do so. If there was a large boom in the midwest and people were moving here like they are to the south, then a lot of schools in the BIG and Big XII would be in position to rise in numbers as well. I think per capita the BIG has the best turnout of all of the other conferences. But thats totally speculation 

 
All of these attendance numbers are fudged.  Its just up to the schools how exactly they fudge them.

Wasn't it 2 years ago that we actually had about 65k butts in seats for the OSU game? 

 
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