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SIAC takes NCAA Division II Football Attendance
Title, Again
February 8, 2006
The SIAC has captured the NCAA Division II football attendance
title for the third consecutive year. Five conference teams
finished in the top 25 in team attendance. There are 147 teams
in Division II.
Tuskegee University was the highest ranked SIAC team finishing
second overall, just ahead of Miles College who finished third.
West Texas A&M finished first averging 13,089 fans per
contest.
The NCAA finished the 2005 season attracting the third-highest
total number of fans since the organization began tracking
attendance in 1948. While total attendance was up by 381,093
fans from last season, the per-game average actually dropped
slightly — but it still topped the 13,000 mark for the
fourth straight year. The 615 NCAA teams totaled 43,486,574
fans for all four divisions in 2005. The all-time high of 46,114,539
was set during the 2003 season when, because of the way the
calendar fell that year, Divisions I-A and I-AA institutions
were permitted to play 12 games, one more contest each than
had usually been allowed.
2005 NCAA DIVISION II FOOTBALL ATTENDANCE CONFERNCE LEADERS
| Rank Division II |
Teams |
Games |
Attendance |
Average |
In Avg. |
| 1. SIAC |
10 |
46 |
292,627 |
6,361 |
-528 |
| 2. Lone Star |
13 |
68 |
397,678 |
5,848 |
1,298 |
| 3. Mid-America Intercollegiate |
9 |
47 |
259,735 |
5,526 |
746 |
| 4. North Central |
7 |
41 |
225,177 |
5,492 |
263 |
| 5. Gulf South |
12 |
65 |
321,788 |
4,951 |
298 |
| 6. CIAA |
12 |
53 |
248,850 |
4,695 |
106 |
| 7. Great Lakes Intercollegiate |
13 |
70 |
234,601 |
3,351 |
246 |
| 8. Pennsylvania State Athletic |
14 |
72 |
233,937 |
3,249 |
-256 |
| 9. South Atlantic |
8 |
39 |
125,965 |
3,230 |
-345 |
| 10. Great Northwest |
4 |
21 |
53,011 |
2,524 |
382 |
| 11. Rocky Mountain |
9 |
48 |
112,707 |
2,348 |
-21 |
| 12. Northern Sun |
8 |
38 |
68,453 |
1,801 |
74 |
| 13. Northeast-10 |
10 |
51 |
86,518 |
1,696 |
202 |
| 14. West Virginia Intercollegiate |
9 |
47 |
77,876 |
1,657 |
6 |
| 15. Great Lakes Football # |
5 |
26 |
42,409 |
1,631 |
1,631 |
| 16. Independent # |
4 |
19 |
27,369 |
1,440 |
-2,021 |
# Different lineups in 2004.
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