Interesting. LSU gets a big boost here with baseball, I’m sure.
Which schools get the most fans at games (or at least sells the most tickets?)
Some interesting findings when tallying the TOTAL CUMULATIVE ATTENDANCE over the last 3 seasons for all sports where that's tracked (link in replies with attendance data for ALL FBS schools):
-Only 4 sports eclipsed 9M total fans (or ~3M/yr) over those 3 seasons: Football (108M), Men's Basketball (47M), Baseball (24M), & Women's Basketball (20M). Football itself accounts for 47% of total attendance, with Men's Basketball coming in 2nd place at ~21%... there's a reason those are the clear two "revenue sports" among college
-Nebraska smoked everyone in Women's Volleyball at 619K (Wisc & Hawaii were 2nd & 3rd with 378K & 303K respectively)
-Hawaii has had 425K fans at Men's Volleyball games since 2023 (BYU was a distant 2nd at ~180K)
-A LOT of fans go to Men's Hockey games, but the national leader, North Dakota at 729K, isn't an FBS school. Three Big Ten schools are 2nd-4th with Wisconsin (593K), Minnesota (574K) & Penn St (407K). Non-FBS schools represent 7.0M in total Hockey attendance while FBS schools only represent 4.6M
-Wisconsin (131K) and Minnesota (127K) also get a lot of fans for their Women's Hockey games, but no other program exceeded 54K (Men's Hockey has over 10X the Women's attendance)
-Bama (325K) edged out OU (320K) in Softball
-In-state rivalry in Men's Soccer was taken by South Carolina at 134K over 2nd place Clemson at 109K.
-BYU (124K) barely edged out South Carolina (123K) in Women's Soccer
-Syracuse led nationally for both Men's and Women's Lacrosse at 163K & 58K respectively.
-Utah (194K) topped LSU (189K) for Women's Gymnastics
-Iowa packs the house for Men's Wrestling at 303K and Penn St was a distant 2nd at 178K.
-Overall results skew heavily towards big baseball schools in the south. LSU, Arkansas & Miss St have all eclipsed the 1M fans cumulative fans a their BB games in the last 3 yrs. Even Southern Miss, East Carolina, Louisiana, & Hawaii have tallied between 350-500K fans (Climate plays a role too...many SEC schools avg 35-41 home games per year, while northern schools like Penn St, Utah and BYU avg only 21-22)