UGA ranks No. 6 in nation in football attendance
The University of Georgia ranked No. 6 in the nation in football attendance last season, according to figures released this afternoon by the NCAA.
Georgia averaged 92,746 per home game, selling out the season in Sanford Stadium.
Nationally, the NCAA said almost 48.3 million fans attended college football games last season –- 48,284,767 to be precise, down about 1 percent from the record 48.8 million in 2008. The decline was college football’s first in five years. The figures include all regular-season and post-season games in Divisions I, II and III.
The NCAA’s Top 10 in average home attendance for the 2009 season:
1. Michigan 108,933
2. Penn State 107,008
3. Ohio State 105,261
4. Texas 101,175
5. Tennessee 99,200
6. Georgia 92,746
7. LSU 92,489
8. Alabama 92,012
9. Florida 90,635
10. Nebraska 85,888
According to the NCAA figures, Georgia Tech ranked 40th in home attendance with an average of 51,584. That was an average increase of 4,095 over the previous season — the 12th largest increase in Division I, according to the NCAA.
The average attendance at Division I-A (now officially called Football Bowl Subdivision) games last season was 46,281, the NCAA reported. The SEC drew the most fans of any conference for the 12th consecutive year, with average home attendance of 76,288. That was down 556 per game from the SEC record set in 2008.
Including road and neutral-site games, UGA games were attended by more than 1 million fans in the 2009 season — 1,014,963 to be precise. That ranked 10th in the nation.
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263 comments Add your comment
Dawggone-it
February 22nd, 2010
6:50 pm
Hey Yellow Fuzz, Let’s see…most single A school average more than Tech.
Chopdawg
February 22nd, 2010
6:54 pm
scottbravesfan…
Falcons 2009 avg paid attendance 68,173, or 95.7% capacity
Detroit 2009 avg paid attendance 49,395, or 76.6% capacity
What’s your point?
Tech fans, you’re the only people I know who can lose eight of nine games to one team, but still think you can brag about the one game you won. Unbelievable. And your home attendance figures (Tim Tucker, you probably meant well, but you really provided some anti-Tech fodder with those numbers you posted) wouldn’t be as high as they are, if it weren’t for UGA fans buying your tickets so we could watch our DAWGS whup you at Grunt Field yet again.
Tech fans, you haven’t won a Ga-Ga Tech game in Atlanta this millenium, now have you??
chemdawg
February 22nd, 2010
6:54 pm
This just in: Tech ranks first in computer science majors with an inferiority complex trolling the newspaper blogs.
Tim is full of it
February 22nd, 2010
7:01 pm
Tim –
February 22nd, 2010
5:49 pm
Uga ranks #1 in redneck trailer trash in attendance at their games too!
Wow, that is real original. BTW, you are full of it. There are always so many trashy fans whenever I go to the tech game. Last UGA-GT game, I saw several fights (including racial slurs), all between GT fans. Do you realize how much money you must donate to get tickets for UGA games? I doubt there is that much trash.
Hey you
February 22nd, 2010
7:02 pm
Are GT fans still talking about the 45-42 fluke?
How about losing 9 of 10.
The Dawg Man
February 22nd, 2010
7:04 pm
YellowFuzz,
Thank you for your application unfortunately the University of Georgia will not be able to accept your application for admission.
UGA Admissions Office
Joe Hamilton
February 22nd, 2010
7:06 pm
Georgia Tech ranks first in academically ineligible players to start for their football team. That’s pretty sad when you cheat and you still suck.
poopdawg
February 22nd, 2010
7:10 pm
Who gives a flying horse’s a$$ whose is in the top ten in attendance? Or maybe who has the most fans that watches on the dang tv? Or maybe the fans that can smell Poop from the farest distance?
Keith
February 22nd, 2010
7:11 pm
Hey “Joe Hamilton” if UGA sucks, you nerds must be really, really bad after losing at home to UGA.
Bremen Dawg
February 22nd, 2010
7:13 pm
Tech can’t sell out that high school stadium.
Bremen Dawg
February 22nd, 2010
7:16 pm
I bet Tech could rank up there as one of the happiest (something that means happy and something else) colleges if ya know what I mean.
GoJackets
February 22nd, 2010
7:17 pm
Of course they do. I mean, what else are you going to do on a Saturday afternoon in Athens? Its easy to get motivated when you dont have anything else to do. That goes for Ann Arbor too which is a very similar town.
Keith
February 22nd, 2010
7:18 pm
Yea “GoJackets” that’s why Athens is constantly on lists that votes Athens as one of the best college towns in the country. I wonder if Tech will ever be on that list? I see there were two more robberies last night near Tech. Nice work.
GoJackets
February 22nd, 2010
7:24 pm
Yes Keith. All Atlanta residents are hoping one day that our small meaningless city will be able to compete with the great Athens GA one day.
Steve
February 22nd, 2010
7:26 pm
I can think of things that Tech would be in the top 5 on:
Smallest stadium
Lack of games sold out
Hot women
Women in general
Terrible gameday experience
Crime
Pocket protectors sold
Using the same old jokes about UGA fans even though they know how smart many fans are.
Jealousy
Not beating their #1 rival.
Keith
February 22nd, 2010
7:27 pm
“Go Jackets” there is hardly anything good about Atlanta. Yes, Atlanta does a great job of high crime and terrible traffic but other then that, there is not much. Your pathetic football team does not help as well.
Louie Jr.
February 22nd, 2010
7:28 pm
Louie- You seem to be a bi-blogger…Louie=Ponce DeLeon. Any other things in life that you are “bi” at?
longDawg
February 22nd, 2010
7:28 pm
All of this is due to the seating capacity of the stadiums numb nutz
longDawg
February 22nd, 2010
7:30 pm
tech would be #1 in tickle piles
Jack Burton
February 22nd, 2010
7:31 pm
GoJackets,
Everyone knows that Atlanta is a metropolis and Athens is a much smaller town, so what’s your point? It’s quality of living that counts. Just ask the rape and mugging victims down in the good old ATL.
Paul's Johnson
February 22nd, 2010
7:35 pm
The Athens Vocational School, Number 6 in overall attendance.
#1 in inflated perception of their school. And in that category they’re in a class by themselves.
GoJackets
February 22nd, 2010
7:36 pm
Yes Keith, Atlanta sucks so much that we only have Georgia Tech, Georgia St, 4 professional sports teams, some of the best restaurants in the country, CNN, Coca-Cola, Georgia Aquarium, Centennial Park, Atlantic Station, etc, etc. Yes it sucks to be here. Give me a good list of all Athens has to offer.
JMar
February 22nd, 2010
7:39 pm
Can y’all keep it down? I need quiet because I’m trying to do my taxes, and there’s no GT football game I can go to to concentrate.
Cherokee
February 22nd, 2010
7:40 pm
Ken………tech would still be 40th
TUCK FECH
February 22nd, 2010
7:49 pm
If Georgia Tech Moved out of Atlanta….Atlanta would not be the gayest city in America!
Go DOGS
February 22nd, 2010
7:53 pm
Ummm GoJackets, Athens is practically an exurb of Atlanta. Where do you think most of the students and fans come from? I grew up and have lived all of my life in Atlanta except the four years I attended UGA so I’m sure where you are coming from. We are speaking about the best atmosphere for college, and if you think that Midtown is better then Athens then you are being rather foolish. Even my good friends who went to Tech say how much of an idyllic setting Athens is for college and college football. Big business hangs in Atlanta but that is not the topic.
Go DOGS
February 22nd, 2010
7:54 pm
“not sure where you are coming from”
Iraq Dawg.... Hooah
February 22nd, 2010
7:57 pm
Please dawg fans dont let these morons upset us. We just have to accept that their are anti UGA haters. Thats their job to hate cause their team aint so hot and they know it
Big L
February 22nd, 2010
7:58 pm
Atlanta has the highest rate of crime performed by D&D nerds with swords. That and the highest prescription to nude hindu monthly magazine.
CAC
February 22nd, 2010
8:00 pm
Where does Yech rank in terroist graduates and current under-graduate terrorist trainees? You have alot to be proud of, Trade-school people.
Big L
February 22nd, 2010
8:06 pm
Ga Tech. 1st in loser Dawg wannabe World of Warcraft kings.
Mass Exodus
February 22nd, 2010
8:15 pm
These numbers are a bit deceiving because of the Mass exodus during the Kentucky game. Expect more of the same for 2010 when the dawgs will perform well below expectations particularly when Derek Dooley puts a beatdown on the dawgs betwix the hedges.
GPBRDL
February 22nd, 2010
8:16 pm
6th in the NCAA? Wow. Thats about as meaningful as a preseason #1 ranking.
RamblinWreck2011
February 22nd, 2010
8:20 pm
Saying that Tech’s stadium sucks and the amount of fans that are there is pitiful doesn’t change the fact that it is the winningest stadium in division 1-A history. Even though I do wish that more Tech fans would make it out to the games.
Call It Like It Is
February 22nd, 2010
8:23 pm
Truth be known, the reason GA’s attendance is so high is the fans are there to show support for the other team.
LOL!
Enough Said!
Sugar Hill Dawg
February 22nd, 2010
8:24 pm
Both of my sons are at Auburn – my wife and I are UGA grads – we just couldn’t let our children get mugged/robbed/molested at the Trade School. I’ve had many former students attend Tech – they loved the experience and their degrees. I’m proud of both UGA and Tech, but I can’t put my kids on that crime riddled campus.
Yellow Fuzz
February 22nd, 2010
8:24 pm
Athens is the Capital of Georgia right?
Floundering Fox Hounds Batman!
February 22nd, 2010
8:32 pm
UGA ranks # 1 in players without Drivers License while operating Scooters emerging from alleys !
uga0711
February 22nd, 2010
8:39 pm
9 out of 10, enough said!
BS Patrol
February 22nd, 2010
8:47 pm
What’s with the obsession with this attendance crap? I’d rather have an 8oz glass of Jack & Coke (Tech) than a 16oz glass of MD 20/20 (ga)
Tubbs
February 22nd, 2010
8:50 pm
Floundering Fox Hounds Batman!
and tech is #1 in players overdosing on heroin!!!
Señora Weeb
February 22nd, 2010
8:52 pm
92,746 a game in Athens. That’s an awful lot of drunk rednecks in one place.
TUCK FECH
February 22nd, 2010
8:54 pm
Most people would rather drive from Atlanta to Athens and pull for the DAWGS! Point, Blank, and 30-24!
Big L
February 22nd, 2010
8:54 pm
He yelowfuzz. You’re darn tootin it is. I mean, where is Sherman when you really need him. Burn Atlanta again , plant some crops. Pretty pasture.
Señora Weeb
February 22nd, 2010
8:54 pm
I forgot… how many UGA felon-athletes were arrested last year?
Since Vince
February 22nd, 2010
8:55 pm
WOW ! CMR better get those ring orders in for being # 6th in the nation. That is sure of a milestone I’ll say!
Señora Weeb
February 22nd, 2010
8:57 pm
Thank goodness for Saint Jan Kemp for exposing that den of illiteracy that masquerades as a university.
TUCK FECH
February 22nd, 2010
8:58 pm
Speaking of RINGS…How are those “We Beat Georgia One in Eight” years looking????
GoDawgs!!
February 22nd, 2010
9:01 pm
Yellow Fuzz, i love the fact that you can’t stand UGA and you try to make yourself feel better about your sorry football team by talking bad about ours. Winning 1 out of the last 10 games against us is just pathetic for you to even brag about. It’s to bad GT won’t ever be in a top ten list for attendance in any of their sports. WE RUN THIS STATE!!!!!!
Keith
February 22nd, 2010
9:04 pm
Since Vince, UGA is pathetic enough to buy rings like you nerds do for beating UGA once every ten years. That whole thing was one of the funniest thing ever. What a bunch of losers.