Despite attendance being on a downward trend for most schools across the country, BYU’s average of 61,647 fans per game in 2021 was the best its had since it averaged 64,236 in 2009.
It’s fun to point at the Pac-12 and acknowledge its lackluster fans, but the reality is it’s happening all over. For example, the average number of fans in FBS stadiums in 2019 was just 41,129 which was the lowest since 1996. Attendance has actually been at a steady decline for over 10 years, with the exception of 2013, but even then it was just a spike of 222 fans on average.