The College Football Industry

Over the last couple decades the NFL has vastly grown, in terms of talent and in terms of fans for various teams, but college football has grown even more over the same time. From a numbers perspective, over four college football teams average more than 100,000 fans for every home game compared to the NFL, which doesn't even have any stadiums that exceed a seating capacity of 85,000. Colleges have the benefit of having a savage student section at games, but this section only amounts to 5,000 fans. Then how do college football games achieve so much attendance? And what makes, in terms of number of fans and stadium size, college football more popular than NFL football? In my honest opinion, the only factor is the environment at college football games. The 5,000 students that cause a raucous at college home games are the heart and soul of the other 80,000 fans that attend the game. The energy that flows through a college football stadium on game day is unparalleled by any experience in any other sport. for these reasons, it is safe to say that college football is an ever expanding industry that already has plans to break all attendance records by selling 150,000 tickets to a game planned at Bristol Speedway late in 2015. If you have never been to a college football game, your time will come, the numbers don't lie!