There are weighty and consequential offseason topics to examine in college football, and then there is the cotton candy, the lighter side of the sport.
Spring football attendance figures would certainly count as the latter. Some fan bases — the ones at the schools which pack their stadiums for spring ball — will revel in their loyalty and their public displays of support for their team. They will make light of the schools whose fan bases did not show up in the same large numbers. Fans will find just about anything to argue about in the months before August camp. Spring game attendance is one of several topics which can be placed into that bucket.
Let’s look at some of the leaders in spring football game attendance in college football: