dbackjon said:
NAU has been Arizona State's best draw OOC most years we play down there. And a couple of years the NAU game was the best attended all season.
Placement in the schedule helps - first home game of the season, people excited to see what the home team will do (then they suck, so people stop coming, etc).
Interesting because from what I could find going back to 2011, the two times NAU played ASU those two games were one of the lowest-attended games for Arizona State. I got these numbers from ESPN box scores and couldn't find any attendance figures any farther back than 2011.
Arizona State 2016 Attendance
1. vs Washington State (50,582)
2. vs California (49,295)
3. vs UCLA (48,509)
4. vs Utah (48,220)
5. vs Northern Arizona (45,300)
6. vs Texas Tech (44,511)
Arizona State 2011 Attendance
1. vs Oregon (71,004)
2. vs Utah (58,107)
3. vs UCLA (55,672)
4. vs Illinois (54,128)
5. vs Washington State (53,658)
6. vs Northern Arizona (48,658)