Tuesday, December 13, 2005

SEC Leads Nation in Football Attendance

For the 25th straight season, the Southeastern Conference recorded the largest total attendance figure of any conference in the country, according to figures compiled from NCAA statistics.

In 2005, a total of 5,593,699 fans attended 75 games hosted at SEC institutions, an average of 74,583 fans per game, which is also best in the nation. SEC stadiums were filled to 97.43 percent of capacity for each home game in 2005, which was also best in the nation. The SEC has led the nation in percentage of capacity since the statistic was first kept in 1983.

Here are the top 7 conferences in percentage of capacity. Neutral site games were not counted in this survey.

SEC 97.43
Big 12 95.01
Big Ten 93.88
ACC 90.65
Pac-10 84.87
Big East 83.50
Mountain West 78.59