Big Ten Football Attendance - Disappointing

[Muck]

Datafy has a very cool interactive graph that lets you compare attendance from 06-12 for individual FBS schools & conferences.

College Football Attendance

 

[Bucky32]

Datafy has a very cool interactive graph that lets you compare attendance from 06-12 for individual FBS schools & conferences.

College Football Attendance

So basically, Minnesota, Indiana, Northwestern, Illinois, & Purdue: get your shit together.

Also good to see the Big Ten is right up near the top for conference attendance as a whole.

 

[TooTall]

No doubt, but I still don't see what it has to do with B10 attendance. The picture you are trying to paint is somewhat....grainy.

Definitely shooped.

 

[DiamondBuck]

Datafy has a very cool interactive graph that lets you compare attendance from 06-12 for individual FBS schools & conferences.

College Football Attendance

Eastern Michigan 2012 avg attendance 13% of capacity at 3,923. Woeful.

 

[ScriptOhio]

The B1G finished #1, #2, and #3.

 

[sparcboxbuck]

The B1G finished #1, #2, and #3.

Might help that the three highest capacity stadiums are also B1G. Probably no correlation tho.

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

Might help that the three highest capacity stadiums are also B1G. Probably no correlation tho.

What about Tennessee?

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

What about Tennessee?

and Kyle field, and Bryant Denny and tiger stadium
of the stadiums over 100k 4 are in the SEC, 3 in the B1G and 1 in the BIG XII

 

[sparcboxbuck]

and Kyle field, and Bryant Denny and tiger stadium
of the stadiums over 100k 4 are in the SEC, 3 in the B1G and 1 in the BIG XII

https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2018-07-30/25-biggest-college-football-stadiums-country

From NCAA (taken from each school's athletic site):
RANK SCHOOL STADIUM CAPACITY Entering 2018 Season
1 Michigan Michigan Stadium (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 107,601
2 Penn State Beaver Stadium (University Park, Pa.) 106,572
3 Ohio State Ohio Stadium (Columbus, Ohio) 104,944
4 Texas A&M Kyle Field (College Station, Texas) 102,733
5 Tennessee Neyland Stadium (Knoxville, Tenn.) 102,455
6 LSU Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge, La.) 102,321
7 Alabama Bryant-Denny Stadium (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 101,821
8 Texas Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas) 100,119
9 Southern Cal. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) 93,607
10 Georgia Sanford Stadium (Athens, Ga.) 92,746

 

[ScriptOhio]

In 1950, the NCAA was gradually moving toward college football on television. The Big Ten struck it down and placed a ban on the televising of any football games within the conference for the 1950 season.

Opinions on the ban varied. Many feared a decline in attendance at games if fans could just watch from home, but it appears that members of the football team and fans were divided on the issue when asked.

It’s just a few opinions in one newspaper, and I'd be foolish to directly compare TV in 1950 to today in 2020, but it’s interesting to see the progression from concerns over a loss of ticket revenue to the powerhouse force that is college football on television that we know today.

Nonetheless, attendance wouldn’t be an issue moving forward when games were permitted to be televised again. As football's exposure on television increased, so did ticket sales.

But, I guess hindsight is always 20/20.