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Highest College Football Attendance

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By cuppycup
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Clay Travis has been stirring up Longhorn outrage for a while now, and his latest involves a comparison of 2014 stadium attendance. Attendance smack is the second-best type of fanbase banter behind academic rankings, so we are happy to participate. Since it's obvious that attendance and capacity are highly correlated, I just wanted to add attendance as a percentage of capacity to the discussion. Texas still sucks in this regard. Carry on.

Rank School Avg. Attendance Capacity Pct. Capacity
1 Ohio State 106,296 104,944 101%
2 Texas A&M 105,123 106,511 99%
3 Michigan 104,909 109,901 95%
4 LSU 101,723 102,455 99%
5 Penn State 101,623 107,282 95%
6 Alabama 101,534 101,821 100%
7 Tennessee 99,754 102,455 97%
8 Texas 94,103 100,119 94%
9 Georgia 92,746 92,746 100%
10 Nebraska 91,249 87,000 105%
11 Auburn 87,451 87,451 100%
12 Florida 85,834 88,548 97%
13 Oklahoma 85,162 82,112 104%
14 Florida St 82,211 82,300 100%
15 Clemson 81,752 80,200 102%
16 South Carolina 81,381 80,250 101%
17 Notre Dame 80,795 80,795 100%
18 Wisconsin 79,520 80,321 99%
19 UCLA 76,650 92,542 83%
20 Michigan State 74,681 75,005 100%
21 Southern California 73,272 93,607 78%
22 Iowa 67,512 70,585 96%
23 Arkansas 66,521 72,000 92%
24 Missouri 65,285 71,168 92%
25 Washington 64,508 72,500 89%
26 Ole Miss 61,547 60,580 102%
27 Virginia Tech 61,157 66,233 92%
28 Mississippi State 61,127 61,337 100%
29 Texas Tech 58,934 60,454 97%
30 Kentucky 57,572 67,606 85%

There remains some dispute about whether this is the first time Texas A&M has surpassed Texas in average attendance. And can someone tell me where Ohio State and the other over-capacity schools put all those extra fans?

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