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Spring football attendance figures for Saturday: There’s the SEC, and there’s almost everyone else
Three Big Ten squads had to postpone due to weather
The story stays the same. Southeastern Conference fans are hotter for football than fans anywhere else.
Look at these announced attendance figures from the eight SEC teams that held their spring football games on Saturday:
Alabama 78,526
T.J. Yeldon is tackled in the end zone at Alabama's spring game. Yeldon did have 179 total yards. (AP photo)
Georgia 44,117
Auburn 43,427
Florida 38,000
South Carolina 34,513
LSU 33,000
Missouri 18,614
Vanderbilt 8,500
The Big Ten didn’t have much to report Saturday because a) Only seven of its 12 teams had their spring finales Saturday and b) Three of those were cancelled (Indiana, Nebraska, Purdue) because of inclement weather.
At Indiana and Purdue, that wouldn’t have meant much, attendance-wise. But at Nebraska, it’s a major disappointment. They routinely bring in fifty, sixty thousand fans at $10 a ticket for the spring game.
I couldn’t find a crowd-count for Northwestern’s spring game. And I looked. I’m guessing it wasn’t large. That leaves us with:
Michigan 25,000
Iowa 15,000 (Cedar Rapids Gazette estimate)
Illinois 3,000
Minnesota, Ohio State and Penn State go this Saturday, Michigan State and Wisconsin on April 28.
Michigan had a hashtag on its field Saturday
Here are others who have played their spring games:
Big 12
Texas 46,000 (April 1)
Oklahoma 20,000
Iowa State 5,000
Texas Tech 3,000
Baylor 2,750
ACC
Florida State 40,631
Clemson 28,000
North Carolina 17,000
Miami 10,000
James Wilder Jr. scores for Florida State vs. Florida State (AP photo)
Virginia 8,500
Wake Forest 5,400
Boston College 200
I couldn’t find a crowd-count for Duke.
Pac-12
USC 15,515
Colorado 7,100
Stanford 5,000
Arizona 4,800
Big East
Louisville 15,000
Pittsburgh 4,617
Cincinnati (cancelled, bad weather)
Others FBS
Boise State 17,123
Army 10,000
East Carolina 7,114
Arkansas State 6,115
Louisiana Tech 5,257
Houston 5,137
BYU 5,000 (scrimmage)
Memphis 4,000
Louisiana Monroe 3,000
No game at Nebraska Saturday (AP photo)
Southern Mississippi 2,585
Tulsa 2,500
Temple 2,500
Toledo 1,000
UTEP 400 (scrimmage)
Fresno State “a few hundred” according to the Fresno Bee
Lower divisions
Georgia Southern 2,500
Western Carolina 1,500
William and Mary 1,500
Coastal Carolina 1,272
South Carolina State 600
Michigan Tech 562
Richmond 500
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People really have no life to live if they dress up in black and yellow and need to go to a practice. It’s just a college team and just a game. Saturday mornings on I380 is like watching Iowa dressed lemmings diving south to drive off the cliff of life…..pathetic.
But people that go through online articles and post negative comments for no reason have a lot better of a life to live and are less pathetic?
Exactly Rupert. That troll has been reported…
You are the only troll on line Ray Calef(?) and a hatefull one at that. These comments are are meant to be each person’s own comment, but you seem to hate people you don’t agree with.
Oh brother.
LOL! Ray Glow goes out of his/her way to talk smack about people who attend Spring Football Games and how unimportant they are and how pathetic people must be if they think they’re a significant measurable, then he/she gets upset that someone may take exception to that. Good times. The profile pic says it all. ACC fans would click “like” on that comment in a heartbeat.
North Dakota State University (FCS) had 5,800 at their spring game on April 21