HBCU Official Football Attendance Leaders - Week 9

The Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) HBCU home games or Classics are ranked. The division II games are ranked in descending order of attendance. Road games held at the home stadium of non-HBCUs are reported for comparison purposes, along with official attendance to Ivy League games for Week 9. The weather was not cooperative in the Ohio Valley and Southeastern states, with heavy rain and downpours.  Draw your own conclusions from the attendance data.

For Week 10, we will compare the HBCUs attendance leaders to the Southern Conference football playing members.

WEEK 9 HBCU FCS ATTENDANCE LEADERS
1. Howard at North Carolina A&T State - 21,500  Homecoming
2. Southern at Alcorn State - 15,993
3. Virginia Lynchburg at Hampton - 15,000  Homecoming
4.South Carolina State at Bethune-Cookman - 12,204  Homecoming 
5. Grambling State at Arkansas Pine Bluff - 7,513
6. Delaware State at North Carolina Central - 5,026
7. Florida A&M at Morgan State - 2,786
8. Texas Southern at Mississippi Valley State - 2,679
9. Jackson State at Prairie View A&M - 1,614 (Thursday Game)

HBCU ROAD GAME ATTENDANCE
1. Alabama A&M vs. Alabama State @ Birmingham - 53,217  Magic City Classic
Tuskegee vs. Lane at Phenix City, AL - ???   Whitewater Classic

COMPARISON TO D-II/NAIA EXPERIENCE
1. Benedict at Morehouse - 25,911 Homecoming 
2. Albany State at Savannah State - 8,101  Homecoming
3. Shaw at Johnson C. Smith - 5,388   Homecoming
4. Elizabeth City State at Chowan - 3,121  Homecoming
5. Saint Augustine's at Fayetteville State - 3,011
6. Virginia Union at Bowie State - 2,964
7. Virginia State at Lincoln (PA) - 1,854
8. Winston-Salem State at Livingstone - 1,437
9. Fort Valley State at Clark Atlanta - 1,004
10. Edward Waters at Kentucky State - 873
11. Miles at Central State (OH) - 203

COMPARISON TO IVY LEAGUE FOOTBALL ATTENDANCE WEEK 9
1. Harvard at Princeton - 9,078
2. Pennsylvania at Yale - 4,990
3. Brown at Cornell - 4,271
4. Columbia at Dartmouth - 4,221