🏈 SEC set a record Friday being the first conference in history to have...

[TerryP]

...more than seven million fans attend football games in a season.

 

[planomateo]

We should, considering we have 14 teams.

 

[TerryP]

We should, considering we have 14 teams.

With the addition of two teams who has capacity numbers that rank where in the SEC?

Below UA, UT, UGA, AU, UF, UArk, LSU, USC...

Still an impressive number... :grinser036:

 

[XXL TideFan]

Dang impressive nummahs right there, dang impressive.

 

[planomateo]

Yup, agree its impressive. Just saying, I'd expect the SEC to be the first to break 1m as we added an 78k (TAMU) and 71k (Mizzou).

2011 the SEC managed just over 900k, whereas the B1G had ~850k.

Side note: Did you happen to see someone caught Kentucky in a "attendance fraud"...caught this a few weeks ago (http://ukfootball.bloginky.com/2012/11/07/actual-attendance-figures-for-uk-football). Someone did an open records request to compare the ticket sales to attendance being reported - apparently they didn't agree with what was being reported.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Not to mention the sheer size of some of those stadiums! If any conference was gonna do it, it'd be us

 

[TerryP]

Yup, agree its impressive. Just saying, I'd expect the SEC to be the first to break 1m as we added an 78k (TAMU) and 71k (Mizzou).

2011 the SEC managed just over 900k, whereas the B1G had ~850k.

Side note: Did you happen to see someone caught Kentucky in a "attendance fraud"...caught this a few weeks ago (http://ukfootball.bloginky.com/2012/11/07/actual-attendance-figures-for-uk-football). Someone did an open records request to compare the ticket sales to attendance being reported - apparently they didn't agree with what was being reported.

Matt, you've got your numbers wrong.

The 71K plus attending the Arkansas vs LSU game pushed the attendance numbers over SEVEN million for the year.

Even with Bama not having 100% attendance last season we'd have accounted for over a half of a million.

NOW, if you're talking about the B1G here, that 850K number probably represents one weekend considering they have stadiums like the one in Ann Arbor seating over 100K, Penn State...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>With yesterday's attendance of 71,117 at <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23LSU">#LSU</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23Hogs">#Hogs</a> game, <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23SEC">#SEC</a> becomes first conference to reach 7 million fans in season. Thanks <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23SEC">#SEC</a> fans!</p>&mdash; Charles Bloom (@SECPRGuy) <a href="https://twitter.com/SECPRGuy/status/272419297152872448" data-datetime="2012-11-24T19:19:56+00:00">November 24, 2012</a></blockquote>
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[planomateo]

You are right Terry, I'm not sure WTF I was posting there. We gained another million in attendance by adding Mizzou/Texas A&M.

Here is the breakdown from the latest update > http://www.secdigitalnetwork.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=DzL54ojLDNw=&tabid=480&mid=2555

 

[UAgrad93]

The SEC might wanna go back and look at those Barner number again don't you think? 94.5% capacity? One could easily say that there were more people in the seats for some of the High School Super 6 there than what they had at a few games!!

 

[TerryP]

The SEC might wanna go back and look at those Barner number again don't you think? 94.5% capacity? One could easily say that there were more people in the seats for some of the High School Super 6 there than what they had at a few games!!

I'm sure they aren't not going by tickets scanned at the gates on a lot of the teams listed here. UK was recently exposed for some deceiving numbers.

 

[bamafan9201]

That's not necessarily true on the UK thing. They sold that many tickets, but the issue was that the stadium looked empty. Someone sent in an open records request to get the actual turn-style count and found it was really bad. I'm not sure they were creating fraudulent numbers but more likely there was just no interest in the football team while the basketball season is going on for UK fans.

 

[TerryP]

That's not necessarily true on the UK thing. They sold that many tickets, but the issue was that the stadium looked empty. Someone sent in an open records request to get the actual turn-style count and found it was really bad. I'm not sure they were creating fraudulent numbers but more likely there was just no interest in the football team while the basketball season is going on for UK fans.

I didn't say UK was "creating fraudulent numbers." I said their numbers were deceiving and I definitely could have worded it better.

If you look at that graph it lists games where attendance was 100%+—over capacity. The reason I brought light to UK was based on that column.