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
Louie
February 22nd, 2010
9:15 pm
Well, where do I start.
Lots of bs going on here tonight.
jackhammer, haven’t seen you on here today, get that a$$ in here.
Who cares how many Samford holds when they leave mid way through the 3rd qtr.?
Wait till November when we get up with the num-mutts have no chance to win.
I’ll be there with a video to show when it happens, mark my word.
Can’t wait, gonna be a goat rope special.
Looking for jackhammer to respond.
STILL L M F A O !!
Since Vince
February 22nd, 2010
9:18 pm
Im not a tech fan you sillies….
Boo Boo's boo's from Sanford.
February 22nd, 2010
9:21 pm
what ? remember that kentucky game? no way is uga’s attendance that high…
OrlandoDawg
February 22nd, 2010
9:22 pm
YellowFuzz, next time theres a mugging on your campus, make sure you’re in the vicinity.
Thanks
Delbert D.
February 22nd, 2010
9:25 pm
Aw, heck…by the headline, I thought it was class attendance.
BobLeBlah
February 22nd, 2010
9:27 pm
All this bickering between UGA and GT boosters anytime an article comes out about either school is childish at the least and a sign of being socially disturbed at the worst. A true black eye on our state.
Grow up folks. Both are fine schools in our state. Root for a team without the adolescent need to tear the other down. Makes all of you look very, very small.
TUCK FECH
February 22nd, 2010
9:27 pm
WOW… at the IDIOTS that spend soo much time posting on a GEORGIA blog that hate Georgia.
Get HELP with you OBSESSION!
GO DAWGS
Florida Gators = The New Notre Dame
February 22nd, 2010
9:31 pm
Nice to know everyone on the top 10 attendance has won a Natl Champ in the last few years.
Keith
February 22nd, 2010
9:32 pm
Louie = Paul Johnson’s lover. Are you serious? Georgia has no chance to win huh? I thought they had no chance this year against you losers? Tech fans like you make all of “Tech Nation,” all 200 of you, look really bad. UGA has just started another streak. I assure you Tech will not win in Athens this year.
Floundering Fox Hounds Batman!
February 22nd, 2010
9:33 pm
Stegosaurus really holds 10,500 not 10,523. UGA officials should be ashamed counting the 23 trash receptacles as seats…..
Humble Bumble...
February 22nd, 2010
9:33 pm
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Floundering Fox Hounds Batman!
February 22nd, 2010
9:41 pm
bring back Ron Jirsa!
THE YELLOW SWARM
February 22nd, 2010
9:44 pm
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED OF THE SWARM !
TUCK FECH
February 22nd, 2010
9:48 pm
You have been warned of the Swarm? OHHHH I am still scared of Your Head Coach saying “punch them in the face for the 30-24 Beat Down”
The JOKE BY COKE hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Gaytorbate 69
February 22nd, 2010
9:49 pm
Tech fans are a fickle bunch. They post 2 years ago score. UGA posts the Ga/Fla total record, and Tech talks about attendance. We guys in Gainesville say, hey Tech, come on down, we might be a little better challenge than Miss State or Vandy.
Gaytorbate 69
February 22nd, 2010
9:52 pm
FSU or Miami, Wake or NC State or Duke. How about we switch schedules for a couple of years Techies. Oh yeah, you guys tried the SEC and found it just a little bit more than you can handle, and UGA seems to wear you like a pair of old golf shoes. Slide them on, and head to the links.
Keith
February 22nd, 2010
9:55 pm
“We guys?” Nice job. Show off that UF education.
Buckhead Bulldog
February 22nd, 2010
9:55 pm
For some strange reason, I actually think Yellow Fuzz and THE YELLOW SWARM are kind of funny. I have no idea why, but I crack up at some of their junk.
And Jerry Mathers as the Beaver
February 22nd, 2010
9:55 pm
Beaver: Hey Wally, what’s the Joke?
And Jerry Mathers as the Beaver
February 22nd, 2010
9:56 pm
Wally: You’re an idiot, Beav. Why, everyone knows that’s the place by Coke, where Tech plays.
And Jerry Mathers as the Beaver
February 22nd, 2010
9:57 pm
Beav: Hey Wally, isn’t that where Edward Haskell said he’s going to pick up babes who have no chance in heck to get picked up?
And Jerry Mathers as the Beaver
February 22nd, 2010
9:58 pm
Wally: Yeah, Beav. But you better shut it – Eddie might hear ya. (from offstage) I’m gonna get you Beaver Cleaver!
And Jerry Mathers as the Beaver
February 22nd, 2010
10:00 pm
June: Dear, Fred Rutherford said he scored some smokin’ tix for Tech games this year. Said somethin’ about Paul’s johnson and the fact that more fans show up at high school games like Northside vs. Warner Robins. Honey?
WAIT A MINUTE!
February 22nd, 2010
10:18 pm
Techies are not gay. Gays have a better fashion sense. We don’t want them haha. I am working on my doctorate but I looks-ez-ez good too hunny. HA! Just picking, but seriously now…yeah we don’t want them associated with us. That’s just hate speech there,
KingfishStevens
February 22nd, 2010
10:25 pm
Again Tennessee beats Georgia.
Hanky Panky
February 22nd, 2010
10:27 pm
For Yellow Fuzz:
A business man was in Atlanta one week for a convention. He was free Saturday, so he decided to try to make it to a Georgia Tech football game. He called the GT ticket office and asked for approximately 50 tickets, best available. A woman in the ticket office told him, “Sir, you are in luck. We have 50 tickets, in a block, in the lower level on the 50 yardline.” Stunned, the business man said he’d take the tickets, then asked what time the game started. The woman answered, “Sir, what time would you like for us to start??!”
Jim
February 22nd, 2010
10:40 pm
scottbravefan – you idiot, it is because the universities ahead of UGA play in BIGGER stadiums. If Sanford Stadium would seat 150-200k then that is what the Dawgs would draw at each game! And BAMA will never leap frog UGA until Bryant-Denny is enlarged to seat more than Sanford Stadium.
What an idiot!
VolsFan
February 22nd, 2010
10:48 pm
Hardesty just scored…wait TD Crompton…really UGAg, you just made Crompton look like a Heisman Trophy winner. 45-19! Can’t wait til Dooley gets another win for the family in Athens this year!
ga gator
February 22nd, 2010
10:55 pm
Amazing 5 out of the top 10 in SEC.
the real OLD GOLD
February 22nd, 2010
10:57 pm
Where does UGA rank in fans obsessed with Georgia Tech? I’d say 2nd behind Tech fans..
East Atlanta
February 22nd, 2010
11:59 pm
This is fantastic. A simple report on attendance sparks arguing amongst the faithful of schools throughout the southeast. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we are fortunate to live in a place where college football is taken this seriously. As a Dawg fan who lives in Atlanta, I almost look forward more to the user comments than the actual story. I seriously don’t even mind the obligatory Bama and Tennessee fans who, for some reason, feel the need to remind us that they exist (as if we could forget).
Oh, and if things are so great up North, scottbravesfan, then Delta’s ready when you are. HUNKER DOWN (and I still love ATL)!
UGA is the BEST
February 23rd, 2010
12:22 am
year after year of SEC East championships, SEC championship game titles, BCS Bowl titles… it must be boring to be a UGA fan!
MD1234321
February 23rd, 2010
12:29 am
Obviously GT can’t intelligently talk football with UGA fans, how do you feel about our Basketball program overtaking yours? That is what I would be worried about.
BIRDAWGONE
February 23rd, 2010
12:31 am
Just like our stadium this BLOG will be filled in the next twentyfour hours. I remember when the AJC wrote about “A DECADE OF TECH FOOTBALL” and after three days there where 68 comments.
That is why Yellow Fuzz and the like post on any story related to UGA. NO ONE WILL READ THERE STUFF IF THEY DID NOT. The greatest compliment to a program is when fans from other teams feel the need to talk trash (especially when they cannot back it up).
gatorsense
February 23rd, 2010
12:39 am
In 2010 Alabama will have 101,000 plus….and Michigan fans will become more disgruntled with coaches and that number will fall…..
BIRDAWGONE
February 23rd, 2010
12:42 am
If the Gators would build a stadium with 120,000 seat they would probably fill it. If UGA expanded their stadium they would fill it. THE SEC RULES!
whatever
February 23rd, 2010
12:44 am
Just goes to show you that Tech fans and Tech grads have more important things to do than set in the stands on a hot Saturday afternoon with a bunch of drunks (wait, that’s at Sanford stadium) and bark for “our team” and screaming and yelling for players who are only 18, 19, or 20 years old. From where I currently live, it seems like it is the red-neck thing to do – to have a pick-up truck with a big “G” on the front of it and those stupid little red and black flags hanging on the windows. Heck, about 95% of those folks likely couldn’t spell GEORGIA, but the sure love “them dawgs”.
It’s kind of sad that you can’t get 95K fans cheering on a great physics project or invention, but you can pack them in at UGA to watch some guy who barely made a 700 on a SAT run with a football across a goal line – the same guy who likely thinks that physics is some sort of disease.
No – I have much better things to do with my time – though I am a happy Tech grad from the late 80s.
BIRDAWGONE
February 23rd, 2010
12:52 am
whatever: You have something better things to do on a saturday afternoon than sit in a stadium with SOOOOO many beautiful women, but you find the time to comment on this blog????
I guess you have better thing to do than go to grant field? What are you doing now? nothing better to do?
From what you wrote, I do not believe you are happy. You sound like a very angry nerd, “It’s kind of sad that you can’t get 95K fans cheering on a great physics project or invention.”
I do not think someone could make up a more nerdy and angry post.
Dawgman
February 23rd, 2010
1:15 am
Tech is the only school I know that took out seats in their stadium where they could have a sell-out and that didn’t work. You only have a sell-out when the DAWGS come to town and beat you. We sell out EVERY GAME!!!!! GO DAWGS!!!!!
sunday
February 23rd, 2010
2:04 am
This is so irrelevant. TCU garnered a little over 38000 fans per game last year, and played in a BCS bowl. Who cares about how many fans you have per game? The stats are skewed – the more fans the opposing team brings, the more fans you have at the game. That is where Tech struggles, filling up the seats reserved for fans from Wake, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina State, Miami, (who may have the worst fans in the NCAA) Virginia, etc…
gary
February 23rd, 2010
2:33 am
The ratings are moot…attendance totals are controlled by stadium size…ranking on a percentage basis of stadium capacity makes more sense ..
Bob
February 23rd, 2010
2:34 am
#6 attendance with poor results on the field. Since fans support mediocrity, there is no reason to improve. So Tech, and maybe Ga State in the future, will be our only hope for conference champions in Georgia. Instead of always blasting UGA “rivals”, why not critique those who can’t accomplish a trip to the “Georgia” Dome with the best talent base per capita.
Anonymous 'Cos
February 23rd, 2010
2:40 am
…if only “Yellow Fuzz” loved anything as much as he hates everything. What a sad state of mind inside this guy’s (girl’s?) dome. As a psych major, i can openly admit that only , generically speaking, psychos and mental-issue children carry around this much hatred…with the willingness to spew hatred at anything and everything. Going out of your way in a childish attempt to ruin someone else’s happiness…just WOW!!! Immaturity at it’s best, ladies and gentleman. And this is why he/she is on here every day. He/She has no friends, and is a tormented, lonely soul. I mean how dare someone else be content and happy when his/her life is at the bottow with no way up. Pathetic, Yellow Fuzz, yet anyone who has their feathers ruffled by this character must look at themselves first. I, personally pity this fool, and merely laugh at his excuse for a life. Get some help, and i hope it’s not a Bulldog you get it from. Go Dawgs…
Anonymous 'Cos
February 23rd, 2010
2:46 am
“the real Old Gold”…are you confused again? This IS the University of Georgia blog/website. Not the other way around though. I see how a Tech student could get that one wrong. Don’t worry though, you’ll get the next math problem i believe. Now back to your blog; just click the Tech tab and you will be joined with the other Tech blogger. Singular. Have a good day. Go Dawgs…
Topp Dogg
February 23rd, 2010
7:02 am
GT does rank highest in Dotheads and Camel Jockeys attempting to get some kind of terroristic training while pretending to be students.
Señora Weeb
February 23rd, 2010
7:03 am
Thank goodness for Saint Jan Kemp for exposing that den of illiteracyand thuggery that masquerades as a university.
Papadawg
February 23rd, 2010
7:36 am
Last 2 years GT had the best team they’ve had in years and they were ranked 40th. Teckie fans suck. They talked smack all the time about how great they are and how bad the Dawgs are but they don’t even support their own team. Old saying nerds, put up or shut up
BS Patrol
February 23rd, 2010
7:45 am
Hey Papadawg, They were ranked 13th, moron.
ga gator
February 23rd, 2010
7:48 am
BS Patrol are sure about 13th? I am sure there are numerous teams in Big 12, Pac 10 and even in the ACC who average more. Every game of Tech at home that I have seen on TV except the Georgia game is loaded with empty seats.
SEC
February 23rd, 2010
7:49 am
University of Alabama board of trustees gave approval to begin stadium expansion of the south endzone,[2] with a capacity of approximately 101,000,[3] which, upon its completion, will make Bryant-Denny Stadium the largest stadium in the Southeastern Conference, as Neyland Stadium is currently undergoing renovations, which will reduce its current conference-leading seating capacity from 102,037 to 100,011. OPENING DAY 2010.