SIAC wins fourth consecutive Division II Football Attendance title

March 13, 2007

Tucker, GA – The National Collegiate Athletic Association has announced that the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference has won the Division II football attendance title for the fourth consecutive year.  The Conference also had six (6) teams finish in the top 15 in team attendance out of a total of 147 total teams in Division II. 

Fort Valley State University (1st), Tuskegee University (2nd), Albany State University (8th), Morehouse College (10th), Miles College (12th) and Clark Atlanta University (14th) led the way for the conference to achieve its fourth consecutive football attendance title and eighth out of the last nine years.  Tuskegee fell just short of winning their 5th attendance title (’98,’99,’01,’02) coming up short to Fort Valley State who averaged 13,682 fans per game while Tuskegee managed to average 11,197. 

As a whole the NCAA finished the 2006 season with a per-game average of 14,124 topping the 22-year-old record of 13,852 set in 1984 and was a one-year jump of nearly 1,000 more fans per game than in 2005. The 615 NCAA teams 46,249, better than the record mark of 46,039 per game in 2005 for all four divisions. The FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision formally Division I-A) set a record in overall attendance, too (counting neutral-site games and bowls), as 36,814,468 people came through the turnstiles in 2006. The previous high in that subdivision was 35,085,646 in 2003, the last season FBS schools played 12 regular-season games.

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