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Traditionally, FCS playoff games have not been well attended. The first round is hobbled by the proximity to Thanksgiving. I suppose subsequent rounds have unique reasons for poor attendance in tmost, but not all games.
Here are the scores of each Nov 30, FCS Round 1 game, the situs for each game, and the game attendance, from largest to smallest.
Montana 41, Tennessee State 27; Attendance at Missoula, MT: 12,329
Abilene Christian 24, Northern Arizona 0; Attendance at Abilene, TX: 5,210
Tarleton State 43, Drake 29; Attendance at Stephenville, TX: 3,583
Rhode Island 22, Central Connecticut 17; Attendance at Kingston, RI: 3,522
Lehigh 20, Richmond 16; Attendance at Richmond, VA: 3,220
Villanova 22, Eastern Ky 17; Attendance at Villanova, PA: 1,722
UT-Martin 41, New Hampshire 10; Attendance at Durham, NH: 1,573
Illinois State 35, Southeast Missouri State 27; Attendance at Cape Girardeau, MO: Not Reported.
I'm guessing the crowd at Saturday's Round 2 game v. Montana, will exceed 13,500 and that will be relatively disappointing in light of the Jacks championship play the past few games. The temp forecast continues to rise and is now predicted to reach 40 degrees with a breeze of 11 mph coming from the WSW—the West grandstands will blunt that breeze so it will be very comfortable conditions in the stadium.
COMPARE: Last week I started a thread which linked HERO SPORTS' Sam Herder’s list of FCS average home attendance figures for the regular season. From that list, I abstracted the attendance figures for the MVFC teams. Here’s the MVFC’s numbers for regular-season home-game average attendance (FCS rank/school/per-game average/percent of stadium capacity}:
6 SDSU 18,504 95.68
10 NDSU 16,789 89.78
21 UND 10,284 83.72
25 UNI 10,135 62.99
28 Miss St. 9,663 55.22 * Missouri State is FBS next year
33 YSU 8,974 43.5
36 IL State 8,564 64.0
37 Murray St.8,332 52.07
40 SIU 8,052 53.68
45 USD 7,364 80.92
98 IN State 3,434 26.9
Here are the scores of each Nov 30, FCS Round 1 game, the situs for each game, and the game attendance, from largest to smallest.
Montana 41, Tennessee State 27; Attendance at Missoula, MT: 12,329
Abilene Christian 24, Northern Arizona 0; Attendance at Abilene, TX: 5,210
Tarleton State 43, Drake 29; Attendance at Stephenville, TX: 3,583
Rhode Island 22, Central Connecticut 17; Attendance at Kingston, RI: 3,522
Lehigh 20, Richmond 16; Attendance at Richmond, VA: 3,220
Villanova 22, Eastern Ky 17; Attendance at Villanova, PA: 1,722
UT-Martin 41, New Hampshire 10; Attendance at Durham, NH: 1,573
Illinois State 35, Southeast Missouri State 27; Attendance at Cape Girardeau, MO: Not Reported.
I'm guessing the crowd at Saturday's Round 2 game v. Montana, will exceed 13,500 and that will be relatively disappointing in light of the Jacks championship play the past few games. The temp forecast continues to rise and is now predicted to reach 40 degrees with a breeze of 11 mph coming from the WSW—the West grandstands will blunt that breeze so it will be very comfortable conditions in the stadium.
COMPARE: Last week I started a thread which linked HERO SPORTS' Sam Herder’s list of FCS average home attendance figures for the regular season. From that list, I abstracted the attendance figures for the MVFC teams. Here’s the MVFC’s numbers for regular-season home-game average attendance (FCS rank/school/per-game average/percent of stadium capacity}:
6 SDSU 18,504 95.68
10 NDSU 16,789 89.78
21 UND 10,284 83.72
25 UNI 10,135 62.99
28 Miss St. 9,663 55.22 * Missouri State is FBS next year
33 YSU 8,974 43.5
36 IL State 8,564 64.0
37 Murray St.8,332 52.07
40 SIU 8,052 53.68
45 USD 7,364 80.92
98 IN State 3,434 26.9