re: College Football attendance continues to drop...

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That is still the greatest rammer jammer video I've ever seen. Sounded and looked like an Alabama home game.

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I feel like we brought more in 2012, but weren't nearly as loud like in 08. In '12, it was ridiculous outside of the stadium. Complete sea of red

It would be far more accurate to list attendance compared to the listed stadium capacity. (Using only stadiums with 80,000+ capacity)

Oklahoma: 104.0%
Michigan: 102.4%
Ohio State: 102.2%
Florida: 101.7%
Nebraska: 101.0%
Texas A&M: 100.9%
Clemson: 100.3%
Georgia: 100.0%
Auburn: 100.0%
Notre Dame: 100.0%
Alabama: 99.3%
Tennessee: 98.2%
South Carolina: 98.2%
Wisconsin: 97.1%
Penn State: 93.6%
LSU: 91.3% (because of the South Carolina Game)
Texas: 89.9%
Florida State: 89.0%
USC: 80.5%
UCLA: 72.2%

If you're below 90% in a stadium that seats over 80,000, you suck as a fanbase.

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FSU, UF, and Miami do not have real fans. They're all side-walkers that jump from program to program depending on who is relevant at any given time.

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This is patently false but there's no penalty for being wrong and a liar on the interwebs so it's all good.

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I think what you are seeing is a drop in attendance for all sports college and pros. People just can't afford this type of entertainment right now. They are pricing themselves out from where the normal blue collar worker can't afford to attend. JMO though.

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Not to mention that every single game is available on TV now. Aside from a few big games, I'd rather watch most of them from my couch or at the sports bar.

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OM has a Sugar Bowl year and they drop in attendance with only 60k.

OM fans are poor

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Ole Miss had a stadium renovation that reduced capacity for 1 year. Every game sold out. Capacity to 64k next year

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ACC football sucks

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Auburn fan

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Yet the Tigers lost to a team in the National Title from an inferior conference. That is ironic.

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I think our drop is mainly due to a poor home schedule this year. We played crap teams like Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, and LSU at home. Our big games such as Florida and Alabama were on the road.

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Texas Aggies have 104,000+ butts in stadium to watch us play Ball State. That is what fan support looks like.

You have a momentary bright spot in your long history of sucking in your tinkertoy stadium and you call other SEC programs Shite teams?

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Any kind of drop is discouraging, especially when you just built the greatest $400 billion stadium college football has ever witnessed.

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The drop is due to capacity decreasing by about 6,000 seats.

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Any kind of drop is discouraging, especially when you just built the greatest $400 billion stadium college football has ever witnessed.

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You know the capacity dropped by ~7K this year, right?

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A&M doesn't care if the stadium is filled, they just need it to be bigger than UT's.

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A&M averaged 100.9% of its stadium's listed capacity over the course of the season. Only 6 other programs averaged over a sellout crowd (Oklahoma, Michigan, Ohio State, Florida, Nebraska, and Clemson). Georgia, Auburn, and Notre Dame averaged right at 100%

Before you even try to bring up certain programs, if you have a stadium smaller than 60,000, you shouldn't even be included in this discussion.

Arkansas averaged 86.6%. That's even worse than Texas (89.9%)

The FAIL is strong with this one.