2007 UMass Home Football Attendance

Someone asked about the 2007 attendance totals for UMass home football games. Sounds like an idea for a blog post.

2007 Home Attendance:

1. Holy Cross-12,264
2. Towson-8,218
3. Villanova-16,174
4. Northeastern-14,189
5. UNH-14,190

Total Attendance 65,035 (five games). Average home attendance 13,007

2006 Home Attendance:

1. Colgate-8191
2. Stony Brook-9001
3. William & Mary-15,822
4. Rhode Island-15,522
5. Maine-10,166
6. Hofstra-9,211

Total Attendance 67,913 (six games). Average home attendance 11,318.

According to NCAA figures we are 20th out of 126 FCS/I-AA teams in average attendance. That puts us in the top 15% of FCS/I-AA.

However, most of the teams ahead of us are southern/good weather teams. Of bad weather teams we are 5th nationally behind Montana, Yale, Montana State and Illinois State (UNI has a dome).