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Fans don’t seem to enjoy watching the Vanderbilt Commodores play college football games in 2014.
For the fourth time in five weeks, Vanderbilt (1-4, 0-3) participated in the game with the lowest attendance in the SEC. However, nearly 57,000 people filled Commonwealth Stadium to watch Kentucky take down the ‘Dores and end a 17-game conference losing streak, symbolically jamming last place in the SEC East onto Vandy’s forehead.
Vandy still claims three of the five SEC games this season with the lowest attendance. Missouri’s game at Toledo in Week 2 (attended by 24,196) is the lowest-attended game involving an SEC team this season.
Four of the seven games featured capacity crowds, though the Southwest Classic, an entertaining overtime affair between the Aggies and Razorbacks in Dallas, Texas, curiously did not.
LSU was the only school to report a six-figure attendance, though the Tigers fell just shy of a capacity crowd as Brandon Harris assumed the quarterback role, probably for good.
Six of the 11 SEC teams in action hosted games, while Alabama, Florida and Mississippi State didn’t play.
Here are the attendance figures from all 14 SEC schools in Week 5.
Attendance | Game | Date | Venue |
---|---|---|---|
101,987 | New Mexico State at LSU | Sept. 27 | Tiger Stadium |
92,746 | Tennessee at Georgia | Sept. 27 | Sanford Stadium |
87,451 | Louisiana Tech at Auburn | Sept. 27 | Jordan-Hare Stadium |
83,493 | Missouri at South Carolina | Sept. 27 | Williams-Brice Stadium |
68,113 | Arkansas vs. Texas A&M | Sept. 27 | AT&T Stadium |
61,291 | Memphis at Ole Miss | Sept. 27 | Vaught-Hemingway Stadium |
56,940 | Vanderbilt at Kentucky | Sept. 27 | Commonwealth Stadium |
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.