2021 FCS Attendance

[KILO217]

Here are the FCS Attendance averages for the 2021 season. Griz #2

https://herosports.com/2021-fcs-attendance-leaders-bzbz/

 

[kemajic]

Here are the FCS Attendance averages for the 2021 season. Griz #2

https://herosports.com/2021-fcs-attendance-leaders-bzbz/

Good find. BSC teams other than UM and MSU averaged 6125.

 

[YttriumGriz39]

Here are the FCS Attendance averages for the 2021 season. Griz #2

https://herosports.com/2021-fcs-attendance-leaders-bzbz/

Good find. BSC teams other than UM and MSU averaged 6125.

Why group them all together? UC Davis was over 10000 average.

 

[kemajic]

Good find. BSC teams other than UM and MSU averaged 6125.

Why group them all together? UC Davis was over 10000 average.

The big drop was from MSU to Davis and we're in MT. If you prefer to average something else, knock yourself out.

 

[IdaGriz01]

It’s nice that Hero Sports got their hands on the NCAA attendance report for the FCS 2021 season. (But the NCAA still has not posted the list at any place I can find on their web site.)

Of course, everybody was a distant second to Jackson State. I am a bit surprised that the Griz beat out James Madison by almost 5,000 per game. I thought JMU was doing better than that.

Anyway, with the numbers available, I wondered how they looked by conference. As expected, the SWAC stomped everyone else. Also, although the top MVFC team (NDSU) drew just 15,101, the overall conference average just edged out the Big Sky. One observation: The attendance bottom dwellers in the Big Sky (Idaho State and Portland State) actually did better on average than two entire conferences and were fairly close to the third worst.

SWAC: 11,692
MVFC: 8,659
Big Sky : 8,549 … 6,125 w/o UM & MSU, as noted by Kem
Colonial: 8,353
ASUN-WAC: 8,153
Southern: 7,681
Ivy: 6,864
MEAC: 6,403
Southland: 5,195
Big South: 5,194
Ohio Valley: 5,088
Patriot: 3,720
Pioneer: 3,208
Northeastern: 2,613

Other Comments
Besides Jackson State at over 42,000, the SWAC had four teams that averaged over 10,000 attendance.

Without the Montana schools, the Big Sky drops from third to ninth in the list.

Without James Madison (soon to happen), the CAA average drops to 7,328, putting them in the seventh spot in the averages.

The Ivy is where it is on the list only because Yale and Harvard average over 10,000 attendance. Without those two, the average drops to 5,075, putting them at number twelve in the list.

Hard to see how the Southland can last. Besides being at the minimum number of teams for an auto-bid, the top team (McNeese) averages only 7,903 in attendance. The worst (Houston Baptist) was at a pitiful 2,148.

The Big South is strictly a one-trick pony … North Carolina at 12,437. Then it drops off by over 5,000 and the average attendance becomes 4,289.

The final three conferences are in football strictly as a hobby (but remember, they still get auto-bids). Of the couple dozen teams in these conferences, only three averaged over 5,000 in attendance. Over half averaged less than 3,000, and six averaged less than 2,000. (Colgate barely makes cut at 2,042.)

 

[AZGrizFan]

It’s nice that Hero Sports got their hands on the NCAA attendance report for the FCS 2021 season. (But the NCAA still has not posted the list at any place I can find on their web site.)

Of course, everybody was a distant second to Jackson State. I am a bit surprised that the Griz beat out James Madison by almost 5,000 per game. I thought JMU was doing better than that.

Anyway, with the numbers available, I wondered how they looked by conference. As expected, the SWAC stomped everyone else. Also, although the top MVFC team (NDSU) drew just 15,101, the overall conference average just edged out the Big Sky. One observation: The attendance bottom dwellers in the Big Sky (Idaho State and Portland State) actually did better on average than two entire conferences and were fairly close to the third worst.

SWAC: 11,692
MVFC: 8,659
Big Sky : 8,549 … 6,125 w/o UM & MSU, as noted by Kem
Colonial: 8,353
ASUN-WAC: 8,153
Southern: 7,681
Ivy: 6,864
MEAC: 6,403
Southland: 5,195
Big South: 5,194
Ohio Valley: 5,088
Patriot: 3,720
Pioneer: 3,208
Northeastern: 2,613

Other Comments
Besides Jackson State at over 42,000, the SWAC had four teams that averaged over 10,000 attendance.

Without the Montana schools, the Big Sky drops from third to ninth in the list.

Without James Madison (soon to happen), the CAA average drops to 7,328, putting them in the seventh spot in the averages.

The Ivy is where it is on the list only because Yale and Harvard average over 10,000 attendance. Without those two, the average drops to 5,075, putting them at number twelve in the list.

Hard to see how the Southland can last. Besides being at the minimum number of teams for an auto-bid, the top team (McNeese) averages only 7,903 in attendance. The worst (Houston Baptist) was at a pitiful 2,148.

The Big South is strictly a one-trick pony … North Carolina at 12,437. Then it drops off by over 5,000 and the average attendance becomes 4,289.

The final three conferences are in football strictly as a hobby (but remember, they still get auto-bids). Of the couple dozen teams in these conferences, only three averaged over 5,000 in attendance. Over half averaged less than 3,000, and six averaged less than 2,000. (Colgate barely makes cut at 2,042.)

Nothing like celebrating being the cream of the crap.