Tuskegee football’s impressive turnstile numbers
INDIANAPOLIS (goldentigersports.com) For the second consecutive year, and the sixth time in school history, the Tuskegee University football program finished second in attendance in NCAA Division II according to the numbers released by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Tuskegee, which finished the season 10-3 overall and in the quarterfinals of the DII playoffs, averaged 10,663 fans per game this year in five home games. The largest home game attendance came against Miles in the final regular season game, which also happened to be homecoming, as 28,765 people were inside the gates at Cleve L. Abbott Memorial Alumni Stadium.
The Golden Tigers have finished second six times since the NCAA began calculating numbers in 2003; finishing runner-up in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2014 and 2015. They have recorded the highest attendance in the nation three times (2008, 2009 and 2013) and finished in the top three 12 of a possible 13 times.
Tuskegee had two of the highest attended games in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) – which led the country in attendance for the 13th consecutive year – this season. The game against Miles was the highest attended game in the conference, while the second-highest attended game came against Morehouse in Columbus when 23,345 attended the Tuskegee-Morehouse Classic.
