FBS attendance by team, 2012

Which FBS team drew the biggest crowds in 2012?

The Michigan Wolverines drew the biggest home crowds in the 2012 FBS regular season, 112,252 a game over 6 home dates; the Eastern Michigan Eagles drew the smallest, 4,364. 36,960,780 fans saw 873 games, 42,338 a game.

FBS 2012 regular-season attendance by home team, biggest average first

1	MICH	6	112,252	673,511	113,833	77,029
2	OSU	8	105,330	842,637	106,102	78,379
3	TEX	6	100,884	605,304	101,851	60,482
4	ALA	8	100,308	802,465	101,821	83,415
5	PSU	7	96,730	677,108	107,818	59,806
6	LSU	8	92,626	741,005	93,374	84,023
7	UGA	9	89,910	809,190	92,746	74,226
8	USC	6	87,945	527,670	93,607	55,534
9	FLA	7	87,590	613,132	90,833	79,598
10	TA&M	6	87,014	522,083	87,429	61,665
11	OU	7	86,280	603,960	92,500	51,052
12	TENN	8	85,660	685,281	102,455	67,794
13	NEB	7	85,517	598,617	86,160	68,258
14	AUB	8	81,717	653,732	86,721	63,838
15	SC	7	80,001	560,008	85,199	70,754
16	CLEM	7	79,429	556,000	82,000	52,327
17	ND	7	78,260	547,821	80,975	70,435
18	FSU	7	75,601	529,208	83,429	60,555
19	MSU	7	75,382	527,671	79,219	63,934
20	WIS	8	75,162	601,299	80,587	62,181
21	IOWA	7	70,474	493,315	70,585	64,022
22	UCLA	7	68,481	479,370	83,277	40,508
23	MIZ	7	67,476	472,333	71,004	76,732
24	ARK	8	66,176	529,410	74,617	76,466
25	VT	6	65,632	393,792	65,632	50,174
26	BYU	6	61,161	366,965	63,489	40,247
27	WASH	6	58,617	351,699	66,202	52,944
28	ORE	7	57,490	402,429	58,792	66,092
29	MISS	7	57,066	399,462	61,797	74,346
30	ASU	6	56,835	341,007	71,004	57,639
31	OKST	7	56,557	395,897	57,799	50,505
32	CAL	7	55,876	391,130	63,186	60,958
33	MSST	7	55,628	389,396	57,831	66,834
34	TTU	7	55,346	387,419	60,879	48,231
35	ISU	7	55,274	386,917	56,800	62,276
36	WVU	8	54,615	436,920	60,101	67,693
37	NCSU	5	53,965	269,826	55,145	51,076
38	UNC	7	50,286	352,000	62,000	44,303
39	KSU	7	50,278	351,943	50,912	57,500
40	LOU	7	49,991	349,938	55,386	34,270
41	UK	7	49,691	347,838	54,553	71,867
42	RUTG	6	49,188	295,129	52,798	41,880
43	ARIZ	8	47,931	383,451	51,901	58,311
44	MIA	6	47,719	286,315	73,328	45,689
45	COLO	7	47,263	330,842	58,607	50,242
46	ECU	6	47,013	282,076	49,023	38,212
47	UVA	7	46,650	326,548	56,087	45,761
48	MINN	7	46,637	326,456	50,805	59,885
49	GT	8	46,558	372,460	64,778	64,570
50	TCU	6	46,047	276,281	47,894	54,047
51	ILL	7	45,564	318,950	47,981	76,574
52	UTAH	6	45,347	272,080	46,037	50,299
53	IU	6	44,802	268,813	48,880	43,975
54	USF	6	44,130	264,780	69,383	29,201
55	PUR	7	43,588	305,118	50,105	67,941
56	ORST	7	43,424	303,971	47,249	54,049
57	STAN	7	43,343	303,402	50,360	61,516
58	PITT	6	41,494	248,964	48,032	40,069
59	KU	6	41,329	247,971	46,601	49,742
60	BAY	6	41,194	247,165	44,856	62,755
61	SYR	6	38,212	229,270	40,394	41,487
62	VAN	6	37,860	227,161	40,350	53,708
63	BC	6	37,020	222,118	44,500	45,877
64	ARMY	8	36,880	295,039	69,607	27,127
65	MD	6	36,023	216,135	40,391	46,775
66	NU	7	35,697	249,877	47,330	74,172
67	BOIS	6	35,404	212,425	36,864	34,943
68	WSU	6	35,365	212,188	60,929	43,440
69	NAVY	6	35,106	210,637	48,820	55,995
70	CONN	6	34,672	208,032	37,279	35,869
71	UCF	6	34,608	207,646	40,478	32,125
72	AF	6	32,015	192,087	38,927	42,236
73	CIN	8	31,249	249,991	46,026	32,675
74	FRES	6	30,915	185,488	36,240	30,585
75	SDSU	7	30,227	211,587	50,586	31,867
76	HAW	6	30,031	180,186	31,632	46,476
77	UTEP	6	29,374	176,244	40,137	41,818
78	UTSA	6	29,226	175,355	39,032	17,389
79	WAKE	7	28,912	202,387	31,162	56,751
80	DUKE	7	28,170	197,190	33,941	50,352
81	HOU	7	27,247	190,729	32,207	33,437
82	TEM	6	26,580	159,481	35,145	49,002
83	ARST	6	26,398	158,389	31,243	35,511
84	APP	7	26,358	184,505	30,856	21,579
85	LT	6	25,841	155,045	40,453	26,556
86	USM	6	25,616	153,693	34,140	32,628
87	MRSH	6	24,896	149,377	33,436	33,533
88	MEM	6	24,371	146,227	39,076	24,738
89	NEV	6	23,432	140,591	30,017	28,491
90	UL	6	22,865	137,190	29,758	34,884
91	JMU	6	22,783	136,699	25,077	13,596
92	RICE	6	22,390	134,341	32,718	24,027
93	UNM	6	22,307	133,840	28,450	38,805
94	OHIO	6	21,844	131,063	25,893	31,099
95	SMU	7	21,292	149,042	32,016	29,170
96	TROY	6	20,952	125,709	29,013	31,498
97	NIU	7	20,877	146,139	52,117	13,491
98	TOL	6	20,552	123,309	28,115	19,549
99	USU	6	20,054	120,321	25,513	38,349
100	ODU	8	20,037	160,294	20,068	11,472
101	TLSA	7	20,020	140,143	24,236	33,488
102	WYO	6	19,555	117,327	22,627	32,784
103	ULM	5	19,359	96,795	31,175	34,588
104	CSU	6	19,250	115,501	25,814	30,849
105	TXST	6	18,945	113,669	33,006	24,782
106	UNT	5	18,927	94,634	22,259	31,567
107	DEL	7	18,542	129,792	21,506	11,607
108	NDSU	8	18,520	148,157	19,065	12,378
109	GASO	7	18,487	129,412	22,155	25,788
110	TULN	7	18,085	126,593	28,913	23,014
111	KENT	6	17,922	107,533	21,657	25,343
112	MTSU	5	17,738	88,691	21,067	28,626
113	WKU	6	17,415	104,488	23,252	38,424
114	USA	6	16,793	100,759	23,789	30,025
115	CMU	5	16,371	81,853	35,127	23,318
116	LIB	6	16,318	97,910	18,643	13,982
117	JXST	5	16,006	80,032	18,993	31,115
118	UAB	6	15,271	91,623	28,612	45,372
119	UNLV	7	15,208	106,456	20,565	24,701
120	BGSU	6	15,001	90,006	17,071	36,420
121	M-OH	5	14,733	73,665	19,326	31,091
122	WMU	6	14,579	87,475	22,536	25,939
123	NMSU	6	14,247	85,480	25,211	30,061
124	FIU	6	13,634	81,806	15,685	22,900
125	FAU	5	13,459	67,293	15,405	41,236
126	BUF	6	13,242	79,451	17,021	31,012
127	BALL	5	12,930	64,649	16,397	31,186
128	GAST	5	12,875	64,377	18,921	29,907
129	SHSU	4	12,791	51,163	26,185	23,113
130	MASS	5	10,901	54,505	16,304	32,552
131	SJSU	6	10,789	64,732	15,494	25,245
132	AKR	6	9,275	55,652	12,616	27,662
133	MOST	5	8,710	43,549	10,076	22,455
134	SAC	4	8,693	34,770	12,106	14,870
135	CCU	5	8,030	40,148	9,316	11,823
136	EMU	6	4,364	26,184	7,654	27,905
Team	League	873	42,338	36,960,780

Regular season, the crowd ESPN files with each final. A neutral-site game counts for the club listed at home, as ESPN counts it; a game with no count on file is left out of both columns. Seasons are listed where ESPN has a crowd for at least 80% of the finals.