College football is back, unlike Texas, Michigan, and Florida State. Another thing that isn’t back is attendance at college football games. The Wall Street Journal—or The Wall, as Michael Scott calls it, had an interesting piece about the difference between announced attendance and actual number of tickets scanned.
Announced attendance dropped 3.2% last year in FBS stadia but the actual number of tickets scanned shows a much steeper drop. The Wall uses a number of B1G teams, including Minnesota, Nebraska, and Michigan, to illustrate the point of schools artificially goosing their attendance numbers to keep dumb sellout streaks alive, dumb 100,000+ fan streaks alive, or keep boosters happy.