Despite a new head coach, hurry-up offense and a victory over a Top 25 team, Syracuse football attendance finished the 2016 season second-worst in Carrier Dome history.
Figures improved 2 percent over last season, the worst in Dome history, which dates to 1980. Through three games, the Carrier Dome average had been on track for a record low. But after SU beat then-No. 17 Virginia Tech, Syracuse saw its most-attended game of the year, 34,842, against North Carolina State. Attendance for SU’s last three games of 2016 checked in 4 percent higher than the same period last year.