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Here's why Troy, South Alabama buck trend on falling college football attendance

Two college football teams in the state of Alabama are head and shoulders above elite programs in the country when it comes to an increase in per-game attendance.

No, it's not Alabama and Auburn.

South Alabama and Troy are among 48 football programs in the country who saw a spike in home attendance from 2016, according to numbers crunched by AL.com's Brian McAlister.

Earlier this week, it was reported that major-college football had its largest per-game attendance drop in 34 years.

Yes, both Auburn and Alabama saw a drop. Over seven games in 2017, Auburn averaged 86,446 fans (86,937 in 2016) a game.