Biggest crowd your team has played in front of.

[darell1976]

Most of our teams have played in BCS or FBS stadiums that is a lot more than our home stadiums hold....what is the biggest crowd that your team has played in front of.

For North Dakota it was 2009 at Texas Tech 47,824

[katstrapper]

Kats played in front of 88,000+ at Texas A&M in 2012 and this year.

[Skyhawk71]

Tennessee-Martin at Tennessee-Knoxville- 99,173 (hopefully never again, I still HATE those people)

[AmsterBison]

Heh, I'd be more interested in the biggest crowd that your team has won in front of.

I know Appy's answer for both: 109,218 in Ann Arbor, 2007. NDSU, 63,088 in the same year in the Metrodome.

[msupokes1]

McNeese was 92000+ at LSU in 2010

[Apphole]

109,208 at Michigan to see us win in 2007.

[Skyhawk71]

Heh, I'd be more interested in the biggest crowd that your team has won in front of.

I know Appy's answer for both: 109,218 in Ann Arbor, 2007. NDSU, 63,088 in the same year in the Metrodome.

39,076- Tennessee-Martin vs. Memphis (until the 2 hour thunderstorm/lightning delay- after about 10,000 to see the win at midnight)

[slostang]

For Cal Poly 80,000+ against Wisconsin.

[ElCid]

Here are The Citadel's top 5

11/22/08 Florida - 90,374 Loss, 70-19
9/5/98 Florida - 85,061 Loss, 49-10
9/7/02 LSU - 85,022 Loss, 35-10
9/15/07 Wisconsin - 80,327 Loss, 45-31
9/10/05 Florida State - 79,152 Loss, 62-10

Largest home crowd
10/17/92 Marshall - 23,025 Loss, 34-13

Largest FCS crowd
10/3/98 South Florida - 32,598 Loss, 45-6
10/4/08 Appalachian State - 29,631 Loss, 47-21

[ElCid]

Heh, I'd be more interested in the biggest crowd that your team has won in front of.

I know Appy's answer for both: 109,218 in Ann Arbor, 2007. NDSU, 63,088 in the same year in the Metrodome.

Biggest crowd for victories by The Citadel

FBS
Oct. 20 1990 at South Carolina Win, 38-35 63,000

FCS
Sept. 15 2012 at Appalachian State Win, 52-28 24,137

[CID1990]

Biggest crowd for victories by The Citadel

FBS
Oct. 20 1990 at South Carolina Win, 38-35 63,000

FCS
Sept. 15 2012 at Appalachian State Win, 52-28 4500 in the 3rd quarter

FIFY

[darell1976]

Heh, I'd be more interested in the biggest crowd that your team has won in front of.

I know Appy's answer for both: 109,218 in Ann Arbor, 2007. NDSU, 63,088 in the same year in the Metrodome.

19,042 at the Fargodome in 2002

http://www.gobison.com/custompages/fb/2002/ndsu5.htm

[putter]

Tennessee, I believe actual butts in the seats was just over 93,000 as the weather was not good.

[Apphole]

FIFY

Bull ****

[clenz]

UNI:

2012 Wisconsin 79,568
2012 Iowa 70,585 - tied for stadium record...70,585 is sell out and they never list higher
2009 Iowa 70,585 - tied for stadium record...70,585 is sell out and they never list higher
2005 Iowa 70,585 - tied for stadium record...70,585 is sell out and they never list higher
2008 BYU 64,108
2013 Iowa State - 56,800 - New stadium record. Any sell out from now on will be 56,800. At one point UNI had 4 of the 10 highest attended games in Jack Trice. They will alter their record books now to make sure UNI doesn't show up in the top 10. They despised that.
2007 Iowa State 56795 - previous stadium record all on it's own until this year
2011 Iowa State 54,672


4 other games with Iowa State all over 48K since 2001

[GAD]

78K versus Grambling old Tulane stadium in New Orleans

[CID1990]

Bull ****

Counted em myself.

[ngineer]

Unknown for Lehigh, though I would suspect somewhere in the range of 40-50,000 when they used to play Penn State up until the late '30's or early '40's. In "modern" times, over 19,000 at Goodman for the first Lafayette game played there in 1988. Unofficial crowds in excess of 20,000 at Lafayette when Fisher Field was much bigger, and some close to 20,000 at old Taylor Stadium when extra bleacher brought in and seating in the baseball end for Lafayette.

[pike51]

NDSU had the biggest fans by far...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/fanvsfan/images/344012/featured/Fat-MU-fan.jpg?1374202306

[NoDak 4 Ever]

NDSU had the biggest fans by far...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/fanvsfan/images/344012/featured/Fat-MU-fan.jpg?1374202306

When you have more than just sour grapes, you can eat pretty well.

[pike51]

When you have more than just sour grapes, you can eat pretty well.

Well, it could be those yellow shirts. We all know dark colors are more slimming. ;)

[Go...gate]

Colgate - 80,000 @ Penn State, 1980. Colgate has played many games with attendance well over 30,000 against, among others, Ohio State, Penn State, Nebraska, Illinois, Rutgers (Giants Stadium), Syracuse, NYU (Yankee Stadium), Tulane (Yankee Stadium) Army, Navy, Air Force, Yale and Princeton.

[Grizalltheway]

When you have more than just sour grapes, you can eat pretty well.
Doesn't mean you should eat THAT well...

[Walkon79]

Biggest crowd had to be Florida back in the Emmitt Smith days, or perhaps A&M a few years ago.
Biggest crowd to see a Cats win - Colorado

I'll have to go back into the archives to see for sure

[RabidRabbit]

Biggest crowd to see SDSU Jacks play: @ Neb 2013 90,600
Biggest FCS crowd to see SDSU Jacks play - @ Griz Stadium, play-offs 2009 (what's the capacity Griz fans?)
Biggest crowd to see a SDSU win - @ NDSU 2008 - 19000?
Biggest crowd @ Coughlin-Alumni Stadium - TOMORROW!!!!! (16,500+)

[Grizzlies82]

Biggest crowd to see SDSU Jacks play: @ Neb 2013 90,600
Biggest FCS crowd to see SDSU Jacks play - @ Griz Stadium, play-offs 2009 (what's the capacity Griz fans?)
Biggest crowd to see a SDSU win - @ NDSU 2008 - 19000?
Biggest crowd @ Coughlin-Alumni Stadium - TOMORROW!!!!! (16,500+)

Our comeback win over So Dakota State was a playoff game around Thanksgiving. As a result it had a smaller than usual crowd. I don't have official attendance but would guess it was about 21,000. For comparison the stadium holds just over 25,000. Your Rabbits were running all over us that first half and holding our offense at bay. Yet when we started coming back in the second half the stadium was rocking with the comparatively smaller crowd as animated as it would be at any sell out. It was the first game I took my boys to and they looked at me like I was an idiot when I told them at half time "Don't give up on the Grizzlies, we could still win this one."

[Bisonator]

NDSU had the biggest fans by far...

Well at least ours have all their teeth! :D

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Unknown for Lehigh, though I would suspect somewhere in the range of 40-50,000 when they used to play Penn State up until the late '30's or early '40's. In "modern" times, over 19,000 at Goodman for the first Lafayette game played there in 1988. Unofficial crowds in excess of 20,000 at Lafayette when Fisher Field was much bigger, and some close to 20,000 at old Taylor Stadium when extra bleacher brought in and seating in the baseball end for Lafayette.

Was the game against Uconn at Rentschler a sellout in 2003? I was at Michie in '95 when Lehigh played Army. That crowd had to be 35k+.

[Go Green]

For Dartmouth and I suspect most Ivy teams, the largest crowd was probably a sellout at the Yale Bowl (80,000) back in the glory days.

Only other stadium bigger that Dartmouth has appeared in would be Michigan in the 1950s. What the crowd was... I have no idea. I presume decent.

[bkrownd]

For the I-AA incarnation of UMass it was "110,187" at Michigan

The home record for McGuirk was supposedly set in 1972 against Boston College, but the quoted attendance is a round 20,000 so who knows what it really was.

[Darlinikki150]

NDSU had the biggest fans by far...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/fanvsfan/images/344012/featured/Fat-MU-fan.jpg?1374202306

That's just rude man. Every team has a unique fan base. Did u just watch Mean Girls or somn?

[marenlee]

Coming from a guy who lives in Georgia. Trust me, we have PLENTY of porkers :D

[SeattleGriz]

Our comeback win over So Dakota State was a playoff game around Thanksgiving. As a result it had a smaller than usual crowd. I don't have official attendance but would guess it was about 21,000. For comparison the stadium holds just over 25,000. Your Rabbits were running all over us that first half and holding our offense at bay. Yet when we started coming back in the second half the stadium was rocking with the comparatively smaller crowd as animated as it would be at any sell out. It was the first game I took my boys to and they looked at me like I was an idiot when I told them at half time "Don't give up on the Grizzlies, we could still win this one."

I was watching in Kirkland and kept telling the lady next to me that we were gonna make a comeback and win.

[SeattleGriz]

19,042 at the Fargodome in 2002

http://www.gobison.com/custompages/fb/2002/ndsu5.htm

Hasn't UND played at Montana?

[thebootfitter]

Hasn't UND played at Montana?
Yeah, but they haven't won there. ;-)

[penguinpower]

YSU Vs Ohio State 105,032

[darell1976]

Hasn't UND played at Montana?

They haven't won in Missoula since the late 70's early 80's.

[Go Bison]

That's just rude man. Every team has a unique fan base. Did u just watch Mean Girls or somn?

That is not even a picture of a Bison fan. Looks more like Missouri.

[IndyTreeFan]

The biggest crowd my Sycamores ever played in front was was Sept. 3, 2012 against Penn State - 96,461.

We played Nebraska some years ago and I think the attendance was around 75-80,000.

Largest home crowd was just a tad north of 18,200.

[Twentysix]

That is not even a picture of a Bison fan. Looks more like Missouri.

What gave it away, the shirt that says Tiger or this Fat-MU-fan.jpg

[eiu1999]

Not sure about on the road (probably against one of the Big 10 schools) but at O'Brien Field its 12.600 against Northern Iowa 11/9/80

[mountaineerman]

NDSU had the biggest fans by far...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/fanvsfan/images/344012/featured/Fat-MU-fan.jpg?1374202306

Is she yawning or straining

[melloware13]

Largest crowd for Delaware: 49,119 @ Maryland - 2008
Largest crowd for Delaware win: 35,213 @ Navy - 2007
Largest crowd at FCS Stadium: 23,619 v. Temple - 1973
Largest crowd at FCS Stadium for Delaware win: 23,110 v. Navy - 1985

[TheBoyWhoSeaWolf]

I believe it was Stony Brook at South Florida back in 2010 - 40,201
http://www.newsday.com/sports/college/college-football/south-florida-59-stony-brook-14-1.2261724#1

[RabidRabbit]

Our comeback win over So Dakota State was a playoff game around Thanksgiving. As a result it had a smaller than usual crowd. I don't have official attendance but would guess it was about 21,000. For comparison the stadium holds just over 25,000. Your Rabbits were running all over us that first half and holding our offense at bay. Yet when we started coming back in the second half the stadium was rocking with the comparatively smaller crowd as animated as it would be at any sell out. It was the first game I took my boys to and they looked at me like I was an idiot when I told them at half time "Don't give up on the Grizzlies, we could still win this one."

Still largest FCS crowds to watch Jacks is at Griz Stadium, make your choice, play-offs 2009, or the regular season games in 2004, 2005.


Yes, a disgusting game. xblehx Good thing Jacks finally got the play-off win vs EIU last year! xsmugx

[bjtheflamesfan]

Knucklehead may have commented on this but if he hasn't I believe the largest crowd Liberty played in front of was the West Virginia game in 2009 (where the FCS world was introduced to Mike Brown now with the Jacksonville Jaguars)

[UAalum72]

Largest Albany crowd - 23,097 @Montana 9/22/07 - Lost 35- 13
Largest crowd for Albany win - 22,016 @Delaware 9/16/06 - won 17-10
Largest Albany home crowd - 8,500 (estimated 11,000) vs. Rhode Island 9/14/13 at Bob Ford Field - Lost 13-19 OT
Largest crowd, Albany home win - "7,500" vs. Ithaca 11/6/78 at Bleecker Stadium, won 9-6
or
6,852 vs. St. Francis, PA 10/13/12 at University Field, won 36-13

[ngineer]

Was the game against Uconn at Rentschler a sellout in 2003? I was at Michie in '95 when Lehigh played Army. That crowd had to be 35k+.

Yes, Lehigh would have played in front of 35-40,000 at both Michie and Navy...still think crowds at PSU would have been bigger. UConn game was probably in the 30K range too.

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Yes, Lehigh would have played in front of 35-40,000 at both Michie and Navy...still think crowds at PSU would have been bigger. UConn game was probably in the 30K range too.

35,322 was the announced attendance for Lehigh at UConn on 10/7/03

What would have been the biggest crowd at Taylor? 27-28k? Just shy of 30k? I'm JUST old enough to remember it...

If the 150th were at Goodman 25k could easily and safely be done.

[Tribe4SF]

W&M

Va Tech 2007 66,233

For win...UVA 2009 54,587

[FUBeAR]

Easy Question...

2013 Mercer University Football
Reinhardt vs Mercer (Aug 31, 2013 at Macon, Ga.)
Date: Aug 31, 2013
Site: Macon, Ga.
Stadium: Mercer Univ. Stadium
Attendance: 12,172

..but the Bears play Georgia Tech in 2016. So that number may double.
xsmiley_wix

[major095]

maybe this thread should have been the largest non-fbs crowd your school has played in front of.

alcorn vs. jackson state 62k

alabama st vs. alabama a&m 70k

I believe alcorn help set stadium attendance records at samford and chattanooga in 94... won both of those as well.

[Tribal]

Heh, I'd be more interested in the biggest crowd that your team has won in front of.[/COLOR]

In recent times, Tribe beat UVA 26-14 (2009) in front of 60,000+. W&M used to play 1-A football with victories at Oklahoma, Louisville, Virginia Tech, Florida State, et al so those stadiums may have held more fans at the time.

[Vooter]

I'm guessing it was the 34,562 that saw us play @ UConn in 2011 (that is, at least since the program's restart in 1970)...

[Sader87]

This has become a topic of debate on our board...it was probably at Harvard Stadium in the 1920's or 1930's when Harvard Stadium held 50K or so but there were some games in the South against LSU in the 1940's we're still trying to get figures on.

The BC-HC game regularly attracted sell out crowds at Fenway Park and Braves Field but those facilities didn't hold 50K for football.

The biggest FCS-era game was probably either BC in 1983 at Sullivan (now Gillette) Stadium not sure of the exact number but probably in the 40K area or one of the Army games in the 1980s also in the 40K range (HC won at Army in 81, 86 and 87).

Biggest home FCS-era was BC in 1986...sold out 23,500+....biggest FCS-FCS at Fitton was probably Colgate 1983...around 22K.

Road FCS-FCS I'm guessing was one of the Delaware games either in the 80s or a few years back 2006?

[aceinthehole]

CCSU Football - 10,000+ Attendance

25,102 at James Madison (Sep. 10, 2011)
23,542 at James Madison (Aug. 31, 2013)
20,178 at Georgia Southern (Sep. 9, 2006)
18,868 at North Dakota State (Sep. 6, 2008)
16,386 at Youngstown State (Sep. 18, 2010)
15,718 at Western Michigan (Sep. 22, 2007)
11,736 at Massachusetts (Oct. 8, 2011)

[RabidRabbit]

Biggest crowd to see SDSU Jacks play: @ Neb 2013 90,600
Biggest FCS crowd to see SDSU Jacks play - @ Griz Stadium, play-offs 2009 (what's the capacity Griz fans?)
Biggest crowd to see a SDSU win - @ NDSU 2008 - 19000?
Biggest crowd @ Coughlin-Alumni Stadium - TOMORROW!!!!! (16,500+)

2 short. Set the new record for the NDSU @ SDSU game at CAS. 16,498, up from 16,345 set vs Bison in 2007.

[Go...gate]

I'm guessing it was the 34,562 that saw us play @ UConn in 2011 (that is, at least since the program's restart in 1970)...

Fordham played before some pretty big crowds in the 1930's and 40's.

[Go...gate]

This has become a topic of debate on our board...it was probably at Harvard Stadium in the 1920's or 1930's when Harvard Stadium held 50K or so but there were some games in the South against LSU in the 1940's we're still trying to get figures on.

The BC-HC game regularly attracted sell out crowds at Fenway Park and Braves Field but those facilities didn't hold 50K for football.

The biggest FCS-era game was probably either BC in 1983 at Sullivan (now Gillette) Stadium not sure of the exact number but probably in the 40K area or one of the Army games in the 1980s also in the 40K range (HC won at Army in 81, 86 and 87).

Biggest home FCS-era was BC in 1986...sold out 23,500+....biggest FCS-FCS at Fitton was probably Colgate 1983...around 22K.

Road FCS-FCS I'm guessing was one of the Delaware games either in the 80s or a few years back 2006?

Always thought it was sellout. What a great game that day.

[Ivytalk]

For Harvard, it was 80,000 at the Harvard-Yale game in New Haven in 1920.