Big Ten close to clinching top three spring attendance crowds in 2015
Coming off a successful postseason, the Big Ten now has something else to be proud of. When the spring football attendance numbers are finalized in the coming weeks, the odds are pretty good the top three spring attendance crowds will all come from the Big Ten.
Ohio State set the bar as high as possible by setting a spring game record with 99,391 Buckeye fans packing Ohio Stadium for the annual spring game on Saturday. That is not just an Ohio State record either. That is the national spring game record. That number surpassed the previous high this spring by Nebraska (76,881 fans). Before the day was done Penn State reported an estimated crowd of 68,000 in Beaver Stadium for the Blue White Game. Those numbers are good for the three highest spring crowds this year, and it might be enough to hold up for one more week..
The biggest threat to cracking the top three before the month is over might be Tennessee. The Vols had 68,500 fans at the spring game in 2014, which would be good enough to pass Penn State for third overall this year. Given the excitement surrounding the upward trend in Knoxville, there might be enough orange in Neyland Stadium to do just that.
Other schools still to play spring games from power conferences include Arkansas, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Michigan State, Iowa, UCLA, Utah Washington and Washington State, but the odds are none of those programs will manage to pull a crowd quite large enough. Wisconsin is also still on the schedule for next week, but the Badgers had just over 8,000 fans come to the final spring practice last spring.
Alabama (65,175) and Auburn (62,143) each had huge crowds but threats of inclement weather may have kept a few fans away from each respective spring game. Either way, the two Iron Bowl rivals round out the current top five in spring attendance. Michigan (60,000) follows for another Big Ten attendance mark.
No other school has reported a crowd over 49,000 this spring.
Here is the current numbers
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/04/18/big-ten-close-to-clinching-top-three-spring-attendance-crowds-in-2015/
School Conference Spring Game Attendance:
Ohio State Big Ten 99,391
Nebraska Big Ten 76,881
Penn State Big Ten 68,000
Alabama SEC 65,175
Auburn SEC 62,143
Michigan Big Ten 60,000
Georgia SEC 46,815
Oklahoma Big 12 42,807
Clemson ACC 37,000
Missouri SEC 30,117
Louisville ACC 23,187
USC Pac-12 22,788
South Carolina SEC 22,580
Mississippi State SEC 21,500
Florida SEC 21,000
Florida State ACC 17,250
LSU SEC 15,000
Ole Miss SEC 15,000
BYU Independent 14,000
Minnesota Big Ten 10,100
Boise State Mountain West 10,072
TCU Big 12 10,000
Memphis American 9,650
Utah State Mountain West 9,000
Iowa State Big 12 7,500
Baylor Big 12 5,610
Pittsburgh ACC 5,325
Arizona State Pac-12 5,000
Vanderbilt SEC 5,000
East Carolina American 4,852
Arizona Pac-12 4,500
Wake Forest ACC 4,500
Colorado Pac-12 4,100
Colorado State Mountain West 4,000
Georgia Tech ACC 4,000
Old Dominion Conference USA 4,000
Syracuse ACC 4,000
Notre Dame Independent 3,590
Connecticut American 3,500
Miami ACC 3,500
USF American 3,200
Cincinnati American 3,000
UTSA Conference USA 2,500
Georgia Southern Sun Belt 2,200
Northern Illinois MAC 2,200
Army Independent 2,015
Toledo MAC 2,000
South Alabama Sun Belt 1,734
Eastern Michigan MAC 1,500
Fresno State Mountain West 1,500
Ball State MAC 1,236
Georgia State Sun Belt 1,000
San Jose State Mountain West 500
Coming off a successful postseason, the Big Ten now has something else to be proud of. When the spring football attendance numbers are finalized in the coming weeks, the odds are pretty good the top three spring attendance crowds will all come from the Big Ten.
Ohio State set the bar as high as possible by setting a spring game record with 99,391 Buckeye fans packing Ohio Stadium for the annual spring game on Saturday. That is not just an Ohio State record either. That is the national spring game record. That number surpassed the previous high this spring by Nebraska (76,881 fans). Before the day was done Penn State reported an estimated crowd of 68,000 in Beaver Stadium for the Blue White Game. Those numbers are good for the three highest spring crowds this year, and it might be enough to hold up for one more week..
The biggest threat to cracking the top three before the month is over might be Tennessee. The Vols had 68,500 fans at the spring game in 2014, which would be good enough to pass Penn State for third overall this year. Given the excitement surrounding the upward trend in Knoxville, there might be enough orange in Neyland Stadium to do just that.
Other schools still to play spring games from power conferences include Arkansas, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Michigan State, Iowa, UCLA, Utah Washington and Washington State, but the odds are none of those programs will manage to pull a crowd quite large enough. Wisconsin is also still on the schedule for next week, but the Badgers had just over 8,000 fans come to the final spring practice last spring.
Alabama (65,175) and Auburn (62,143) each had huge crowds but threats of inclement weather may have kept a few fans away from each respective spring game. Either way, the two Iron Bowl rivals round out the current top five in spring attendance. Michigan (60,000) follows for another Big Ten attendance mark.
No other school has reported a crowd over 49,000 this spring.
Here is the current numbers
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/04/18/big-ten-close-to-clinching-top-three-spring-attendance-crowds-in-2015/
School Conference Spring Game Attendance:
Ohio State Big Ten 99,391
Nebraska Big Ten 76,881
Penn State Big Ten 68,000
Alabama SEC 65,175
Auburn SEC 62,143
Michigan Big Ten 60,000
Georgia SEC 46,815
Oklahoma Big 12 42,807
Clemson ACC 37,000
Missouri SEC 30,117
Louisville ACC 23,187
USC Pac-12 22,788
South Carolina SEC 22,580
Mississippi State SEC 21,500
Florida SEC 21,000
Florida State ACC 17,250
LSU SEC 15,000
Ole Miss SEC 15,000
BYU Independent 14,000
Minnesota Big Ten 10,100
Boise State Mountain West 10,072
TCU Big 12 10,000
Memphis American 9,650
Utah State Mountain West 9,000
Iowa State Big 12 7,500
Baylor Big 12 5,610
Pittsburgh ACC 5,325
Arizona State Pac-12 5,000
Vanderbilt SEC 5,000
East Carolina American 4,852
Arizona Pac-12 4,500
Wake Forest ACC 4,500
Colorado Pac-12 4,100
Colorado State Mountain West 4,000
Georgia Tech ACC 4,000
Old Dominion Conference USA 4,000
Syracuse ACC 4,000
Notre Dame Independent 3,590
Connecticut American 3,500
Miami ACC 3,500
USF American 3,200
Cincinnati American 3,000
UTSA Conference USA 2,500
Georgia Southern Sun Belt 2,200
Northern Illinois MAC 2,200
Army Independent 2,015
Toledo MAC 2,000
South Alabama Sun Belt 1,734
Eastern Michigan MAC 1,500
Fresno State Mountain West 1,500
Ball State MAC 1,236
Georgia State Sun Belt 1,000
San Jose State Mountain West 500
