...That's the number that puts our average attendance this year above last year. And it stems the massive decline that started in 2017. (See chart below.) Since we're averaging 17,189 for the conference games this season, all we need to do is hit that average for our final conference game.
But we need a number for the Virginia Tech game above 18,317 to average more for the conference portion of the schedule year over year.
There's a slight bias in favor of attendance this year--one extra conference game and one less non-conference game. In comparison to the above YTD average for conference games (17,189), the average for non-conference games was 15,881. That was slightly less than last year's average of 15,901.
But we need a number for the Virginia Tech game above 18,317 to average more for the conference portion of the schedule year over year.
There's a slight bias in favor of attendance this year--one extra conference game and one less non-conference game. In comparison to the above YTD average for conference games (17,189), the average for non-conference games was 15,881. That was slightly less than last year's average of 15,901.
LAST YEAR
Overall (18 games) 16,601
THIS YEAR TO DATEConference (9) 17,301
Non-conference (9) 15,901
Non-conference (9) 15,901
Overall (17) 16,573
Conference (9) 17,189
Non-conference (8) 15,881
Non-conference (8) 15,881