SIAC Football Fan Attendance Once Again Leads the Country

ATLANTA, Georgia  – The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (S-I-A-C) once again led the NCAA Division II in football attendance last season. The SIAC has now led all NCAA DII conferences in football attendance for twelve consecutive seasons and for twenty-three of the last twenty-five seasons – dating back to the 1990 season.

"We take great pride our incredible support our fans provide our member schools and student-athletes. The emotional connections which our schools enjoy with their alumni, fans and the communities which they serve is the primary reason our league has led NCAA Division II football attendance twelve consecutive years – and twenty-three of the last twenty-five years," said Gregory Moore, commissioner of the SIAC. "What is important to also bear in mind is that our robust fan support has also been critically important to helping the SIAC to also rank first in NCAA DII by almost every objective digital and social media metric by a fairly wide margin (Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and monthly unique visitors)."

Since 1990, the SIAC led Division II football's average attendance twenty-three times, including totaling 300,000 on seventeen occasions. According to the NCAA.com website, seven SIAC schools ranked in the top thirty in attendance leaders – led by Tuskegee (2nd), Albany State (5th) and Miles (9th) last season.


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2014 NCAA DIVISION II FOOTBALL ATTENDANCE TEAM LEADERS

Rank School G Attendance Average
1. Grand Valley St. 5 58,497 11,699
2. Tuskegee 5 49,799 9,960
3. Pittsburg St. 6 58,878 9,813
4. North Ala. 6 54,389 9,065
5. Albany St. (GA) 3 23,256 7,752
6. Winston-Salem 5 37,609 7,522
7. Northwest Mo. St. 6 44,840 7,473
8. Tarleton St. 3 22,141 7,380
9. Miles 6 44,017 7,336
10. Henderson St. 5 35,904 7,181
11. Midwestern St. 5 35,484 7,097
12. Fort Valley St. 5 33,439 6,688
13. Central Mo. 6 39,444 6,575
14. West Tex. A&M 5 32,874 6,574
15. Colorado St.-Pueblo 8 51,008 6,376

Rank School G Attendance Average
16. Saginaw Valley 6 37,723 6,287
17. Slippery Rock 5 31,056 6,211
18. Tex. A&M-Commerce 6 36,757 6,126
19. Tex. A&M-Kingsville 5 30,567 6,113
20. Lenoir-Rhyne 6 36,553 6,092
21. West Ga. 6 34,796 5,799
22. Indianapolis 5 28,371 5,674
23. Delta St. 6 33,715 5,619
24. Clark Atlanta 6 33,694 5,616
25. Morehouse 3 16,576 5,525
26. Benedict 5 27,613 5,523
27. Virginia Union 6 32,536 5,423
28. Valdosta St. 5 25,735 5,147
29. Shippensburg 5 25,616 5,123
30. Arkansas Tech 5 25,527 5,105

2014 NCAA DIVISION II FOOTBALL CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE
Total 2014 Change

Rank Division II Teams Games Attendance Average In Avg.
1. Southern Intercollegiate# 12 62 388,787 6,271 963
2. Lone Star# 7 38 226,987 5,973 -626
3. Gulf South# 7 39 198,543 5,091 -308
4. Mid-America# 12 67 332,805 4,967 257
5. Great American# 10 53 174,473 3,292 -439
6. South Atlantic 8 41 122,339 2,984 -177
7. Central Intercollegiate 12 59 173,882 2,947 -458
8. Pennsylvania 16 87 248,748 2,859 -62
9. Great Northwest# 7 38 107,566 2,831 70
10. Great Lakes Intercol. 15 83 232,616 2,803 -386
11. Northern Sun 16 92 237,214 2,578 265
12. Rocky Mountain 10 56 131,802 2,354 98
13. Great Lakes Valley# 9 47 101,957 2,169 216
14. Mountain East 10 56 96,024 1,715 -211
15. Northeast-10 10 55 92,585 1,683 -170
Independents 6 32 69,559 2,174 -644

Conference attendance includes home games and neutral site contests between two teams in the same
conference. Independents total includes home game totals and neutral site games between two independent teams.

# Different alignment than in prior year.

ABOUT THE SIAC:

The SIAC is a NCAA athletic conference consisting primarily of historically black colleges and universities with headquarters in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The primary mission and purpose of the SIAC is "to leverage intercollegiate athletics to the benefit of our student-athletes and to advance the overarching strategic interests of SIAC member institutions." The SIAC includes 15 member institutions (Albany State University, Benedict College, Central State University, Claflin University, Clark Atlanta University, Fort Valley State University, Kentucky State University, Lane College, LeMoyne-Owen College, Miles College, Morehouse College, Paine College, Spring Hill College, Stillman College, Tuskegee University) which are located within a contiguous six-state footprint (Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Ohio). The SIAC sponsors seven men's and six women's sports and is a proud member of the NCAA Division II.


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