New Study Ranks College Football's Most Engaged Fan Bases

The college football season is already creeping up on us, and nobody knows this more than diehard fans of the NCAA's most football crazy schools. But of all the football programs out there, which one has the most engaged fan base? To find out, TicketCity designed an algorithm to identify which fans were the most frequently engaged with their team both online and offline. So, factors such as home attendance and ticket prices were combined with Facebook and Twitter statistics in order to come up with an overall engagement score. Here's the breakdown of the scoring metrics and the corresponding weight each piece of data was given (based on the 2012 season):

- Average total attendance, all games (5)
- Average home attendance (10)
- Average ticket price, all games (5)
- Average home game ticket price (10)
- Percentage of stadium capacity filled at home games (10)
- Facebook likes & Facebook "talking about" (6)
- Twitter following (3)

And the winner is... the University of Michigan! This comes as a small surprise, considering it beat out teams with much more recent success, like SEC powerhouses Alabama and LSU. It also beat out Big Ten rival Ohio State, which came in fourth. Overall, though, the universities listed in the top 25 are ones you would expect and are all from major conferences. Here is the list of College Football's Top 25 Most Engaged Fans:

Rank Conference Institution Overall Score 1 Big 10 University of Michigan 100 2 SEC Louisiana State University 95.43 3 SEC University of Alabama 95.18 4 Big 10 Ohio State University 92.94 5 SEC Texas A&M University 88.91 6 Big 10 University of Nebraska - Lincoln 87.88 7 Big 12 University of Oklahoma 82.77 8 Big 12 University of Texas - Austin 82.11 9 SEC University of Georgia 81.83 10 SEC University of Florida 79.86 11 Big 10 Penn State University 75.68 12 SEC University of South Carolina 72.13 13 Big 10 University of Iowa 72.08 14 Pac 12 University of Southern California 71.97 15 Pac 12 University of Oregon 70.53 16 Big 10 Michigan State University 70.52 17 SEC University of Tennessee 68.57 18 Big 10 University of Wisconsin - Madison 68.29 19 SEC Auburn University 66.4 20 ACC Clemson University 65.85 21 Big 12 West Virginia University 65.53 22 ACC Florida State University 63.92 23 SEC University of Missouri 63.82 24 SEC University of Arkansas 60.88 25 ACC Virginia Tech University 59.51

Check out the full results from the study at TicketCity.com.

 

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