OT - Football Fan Density by Team
CommonCensus provides statistics on all sorts of totally irrelevant stuff, but one of their interesting ones is density of fans for NFL, MLB, NHL, and NCAAF.
The NCAAF (this link provides maginfiying capabilities at the original site):
Interesting to see the break down of the state of Michigan. It should at least offer some of you who like to bitch about MSU. If you open the image, it gets much bigger. Indiana is all sorts of colors, which seems pretty crazy, too.
September 17th, 2010 at 6:25 PM ^
Clearly, we need to do something to recapture the Straits of Mackinac from Sparty.
Florida is interesting. Miami's fanbase is more spread out than I would have guessed, while FSU's looks tiny.
The Texas/TAMU split seems hard to believe. Are there really that many Aggie fans? I thought UT pretty much held sway all over.
September 17th, 2010 at 6:29 PM ^
TAMU has a large presence, but it's in predominatly rural areas. UT has more of the population centers. Even the Aggies stranglehold of the rural areas is slowly fading. Younger Texans tend to lean more toward UT, but that's more ages 10-25.
My 2 cents at least.
September 17th, 2010 at 6:47 PM ^
Agreed. Rural East and Central Texas tend to lean Aggie, but not a lot of people live there. Looks nice on the map though! A fair comparison would be the northern portion of the lower peninsula of Michigan.
Edit: Looking at the raw numbers, I'm a little bit surprised that A&M is so close to Texas in total fans. I wonder if this was linked on TexAgs.com at some point? Aggies on the internet tend to be unusually well organized and will vote/fill out anything they are asked to if they think it will make A&M look better. That could be a factor here.
September 17th, 2010 at 8:59 PM ^
the straights area has always been a sparty haven. My dad was one of the few non-sparties up their, and most of his friends wondered about his decision to go to umich over the supperior moo u. That was back in the early 50's; its worse now.
Note: That area is a farming/orchard/ranching area; thsu, their love of sparty, because that is where they go to get help if crops/animals are not doing well.
Ps. once he left for A^2, he never went back -- besides to visit his 'rents.
September 17th, 2010 at 6:26 PM ^
September 17th, 2010 at 6:36 PM ^
| Penn St. | 1389 | |
| Ohio St. | 1119 | |
| Michigan | 992 | |
| Notre Dame | 991 | |
| Texas | 869 | |
| Texas A&M | 845 | |
| Illinois | 741 | |
| Wisconsin | 741 | |
| Maryland | 603 | |
| Boston Coll. | 561 | |
| Rutgers | 516 | |
| Michigan St. | 508 |
September 17th, 2010 at 7:25 PM ^
I live in Dallas, and before i moved here I assumed most of the males age 18-36 were UT fans… but in dallas, there are tons of OU fans UT fans and TAMU fans, i get UT and OU… both are 3 hours away in their respective directions… But A and M has been pretty lousy in football since the days of Dat Nguyen… Even Texas Tech has past them in recent success. But alot of my friends root for the aggies… I could care less… because if Michigan isn't playing im just rooting for a good game.. That is my 2 cent
September 17th, 2010 at 8:47 PM ^
A&M had a successful run in the mid to late 90s. That kept their numbers solid. I would imagine a larger portion of fans from Texas in the 25-35 range are Aggies because of it. I'm 24 and just outside of that group, and I could easily see the transition between the 3 classes who graduated before me to the 3 classes who graduated after me. We went from a good mix of A&M and UT to a very, very high UT ratio. Hell, my class had more kids go to UH than A&M despite getting into both.
September 17th, 2010 at 9:04 PM ^
norman to the dallas/ft worth metroplex. i made the trip down for the ou-texas games on numerous occassions. its a bit longer from austin to there that is why they moved the game to dallas a long time ago -- to save travel cost for everyone. of course, now it is the reason for a week long bender. both schools do not have classes on the Friday before -- no one is in hte respective towns for class; they are in dallas.
September 17th, 2010 at 8:15 PM ^
i am surprised no one noticed the MSU sad face that was formed in the thumb of Michigan. If that's not saying something, I don't know what does.
September 17th, 2010 at 8:18 PM ^
who read "Football fan density" and assumed obesity and/or mental sluggishness was the topic, right?
Also, what gives with the random clump of 19 Eastern fans in Northern Montana?
September 17th, 2010 at 8:30 PM ^
i guess they gotta be located somewhere?
September 17th, 2010 at 9:41 PM ^
this was another list bashing the SEC.
September 17th, 2010 at 9:41 PM ^
but those sample sizes are pretty small
September 17th, 2010 at 11:55 PM ^
Eastern Michigan is HUGE in upstate Montana.
Same goes for SMU in North Dakota, and Temple in Missouri.
September 18th, 2010 at 9:41 AM ^
The most irrelevant post ever.