Buckeye 2015 posted:cabbagedad posted:There are also attendance (and, therefore, facility capacity) requirements for D1 FBS schools.
http://www.ncaa.org/about/who-...ision-classification
The attendance "mandates" obviously aren't real serious. I can assure you that there are MAC schools that haven't averaged anywhere close to 15,000 in any rolling 2 year period in a long time. I guess maybe "tickets sold" is somehow calculated rather than actual butts in the stands for this number. That can be the only way they are reaching 15K
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"The Miami Student" reports an average of 10,000 tickets per football game were being bought by the school to keep it from falling out of the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly called Division I-A). The NCAA requires each school in the FBS to average at least 15,000 in actual or paid attendance per game.
https://www.abc15.com/news/nat...rs-stay-in-divisions
The average count of tickets scanned at home games—the number of fans who actually show up—is about 71% of the attendance you see in a box score, according to data from the 2017 season collected by The Wall Street Journal. In the Mid-American Conference, with less-prominent programs like Central Michigan and Toledo, teams’ scanned attendance numbers were 45% of announced attendance.