So the average dropped from 45,498 in 2011 to 42,108 last year.

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Average attendance since independence.

Everyman

7/15/18 6:24pm

Put the record next to each of those season attendance numbers.

Eddie

7/15/18 6:26pm

Were those actual butts in seats or tickets sold?

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

7/15/18 6:26pm

Tickets sold. Everyone reports tickets sold. Which is why the previous year’s

Scratch

7/15/18 6:28pm

Utah reports tickets sold, given, and made

Y4LYFE

7/16/18 10:51am

There is a long waiting list at Utah for season tickets.

Jdoc

7/16/18 11:02am

Well, when your stadium only seats 40k, that's not big accomplishment.

SD-Y-FAN

7/16/18 11:08am

Here's what we know, Utah has a very long waiting list to buy season tickets and

Scratch

7/16/18 11:13am

And Utah tickets are much more expensive than BYU’s.

Jdoc

7/16/18 11:16am

Yep, I was just curious about this, so I looked for the best BYU season tickets

Scratch

7/16/18 11:45am

It actually seats up to 47,800. No LVS, but

Jdoc

7/16/18 11:19am

The reality of Ute games... Less people show up.

TheLost

7/16/18 11:57am

LOL, do you know what that is a picture of? It's the student section at the

Scratch

7/16/18 12:08pm

Correct. I was at this game and you nailed it

Jdoc

7/16/18 12:12pm

Lots of seats around me at all the games i went too..

TheLost

7/16/18 12:18pm

Well they did raise season ticket prices last year

I'mBatman

7/15/18 6:28pm

Attendence is declining across college football. What this tells me is byu isn't immune to that but we still have some

monkeycowboy

7/15/18 6:39pm

This, along with some struggling teams explains the numbers to me.

SD-Y-FAN

7/15/18 8:46pm

BYU stunk last year...confirmed.

CougarinOZ

7/15/18 6:52pm

Avg attendance is down across all of CFB since the new TV contracts

BYUFam1

7/15/18 7:12pm

Yeah, you should probably compare side to side against all of CFB.

Dr T-bone

7/15/18 8:09pm

FBS total home attendance.

Everyman

7/15/18 8:40pm

There are also more FBS teams and more games now, right?

Scratch

7/15/18 8:47pm

Here’s the link to the NCAA stats

Everyman

7/15/18 9:01pm

So the average dropped from 45,498 in 2011 to 42,108 last year.

Scratch

7/15/18 9:06pm

Most of that decline is due to averaging in the new FCS call-ups.

jrj84105

7/15/18 10:50pm

Great point, thanks. It would be interesting to compare the averages for all of

Scratch

7/15/18 10:57pm

I always felt Bronco didn't like some of us fans. And the sharp TV picture can't

stevebyu8

7/16/18 8:17am

So it looks like for the first few years

Byu_1988

7/15/18 8:05pm

What was TV like during the MWC years again?

mulletino

7/15/18 8:05pm

We pulled 56k at 4-9?? Incredible.

kapcreations

7/15/18 8:56pm

9-4 in 2016 resulted in season ticket sales that allowed BYU to average 56K per

Scratch

7/15/18 9:03pm

Not really, it's what you've done lately and people were still showing up to

basman

7/15/18 9:21pm

They were? There were 46,000 sold tickets for SJSU, and a ton of those were

Scratch

7/15/18 10:40pm

And by the way, this isn’t a shot at BYU in any way, it’s largely just the

Scratch

7/15/18 11:19pm

So even at that, we're #32 overall in FBS? Not too bad really.

ManicBlue

7/15/18 10:38pm

Not enough data to separate the signal (Conf/Indy) from the noise (opponents,

ptcougr

7/16/18 4:11am

My opinion is that your #s 3, 4, and 5 have been most impactful to attendance

D.T. Survivor

7/16/18 12:34pm

I agree. I also think the shift in student body demographics should have been

ptcougr

7/16/18 2:38pm

They’re getting nerdier as admission requirements basically preclude all others

D.T. Survivor

7/16/18 4:50pm

But CB tells me that it isn't any fun competing in a G5 conference and nobody

TheLoneCougar

7/16/18 7:24am

This tells me winning trumps all but also

1CougFan

7/16/18 7:59am

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TheLost

7/16/18 8:38am

Any other 4-9 teams that averaged 88% attendance?

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