College Football Attendance Lowest Since 2000

With the bowl season kicking off this weekend, CBS Sports analyzed the attendance of all schools in the NCAA’s Football Bowl Subdivision (the more politically-correct name for what was Division I-A). Even when not factoring in neutral site games, and with six new teams added to the division, the average home attendance for college football is the lowest since the 2000 season. Even among the top 25 attendance leaders, 28% experienced a decrease from 2013, even though they all came from the “Power 5” conferences. Of the remaining “Power 5” schools, over half experienced a decline as well. The Big 12 had its smallest average since 2005, and the Pac-12 has decreased 10% since 2007. The SEC, of course, is up 3% with a couple of recently-expanded stadiums.

Ironically, the one D-1A school to eliminate football had the second-highest increase over last season, and outranked almost 40 other schools in attendance: the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which shut down its football program a few weeks ago under mysterious circumstances.

Read more at CBS Sports.

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