Football Attendence Figures

[Bison_Kent]

Here are the Big Sky, Gateway, and the new proposed Great Western Conference teams attendence average figures so far this season:

Big Sky
1. Montana 23,367
2. Montana State 11,253
3. Northern Arizona 9,160
4. Sacramento State 7,791
5. Weber State 7,733
6. Idaho State 7,614
7. Portland State 6,975
8. Eastern Washington 5,755

Gateway
1. Youngstown State 16,528
2. Western Illinois 13,983
3. Western Kentucky 11,956
4. Northern Iowa 11,807
5. SW Missouri State 10,974
6. Southern Illinois 9,534
7. Illinois State 8,453
8. Indiana State 2,686

Great Western
1. NDSU 12,471
2. Cal-Poly 7,367
3. SDSU 7,091
4. UC-Davis 6,845
5. Southern Utah 6,168
6. Northern Colorado 5,893
7. St. Mary's 1,813

[Bisonfan1234]

I see that West Kentucky and West Illinois are in the Gateway. Aren't both of those perennial D1AA contenders?

[NDSU_grad]

Yes, those are both very good I-AA teams, but there has been talk of W. Kentucky moving up to I-A and joining the SunBelt Conference, of which they are already a member for basketball.

[Charger]

Southern Illinois and Northern Iowa are also contenders this year. The Gateway Conference will probably be the best I-AA conference again this year.

[WYOBISONMAN]

Great research Kent! Those are interesting figures. It shows that NDSU will be one of the top teams for attendance in D1AA.

Western KY needs to work on thier attendance if they want to play D1A. I think they are worse that Wyoming, and Wyoming is always under fire for not enough attendance to stay D1A.

[wsuwarrior]

It shows that NDSU will be one of the top teams for attendance in D1AA.

NDSU would be 22nd according to this weeks attendance list, SDSU would be 61st. Both pretty decent, all things considered.