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For the third time in four weeks, Vanderbilt (1-3, 0-2) claimed the lowest attendance in the SEC, as just 34,441 attended the Commodores’ entertaining game against South Carolina.
Vandy 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) and Ole Miss’ season-opener against Boise State in Atlanta (32,823) are the other two.
Meanwhile, LSU made sure to keep the cowbells out of Tiger Stadium on Saturday night, where a capacity crowd of 102,321 watched Mississippi State physically dominate the Tigers in an upset.
Alabama was the only other school to report more than 100,000 in attendance. The announced figure against Florida was an exact replica of the attendance for last week’s game against Southern Miss: 101,821, also capacity for Bryant-Denny Stadium.
Just 34,820 watched Texas A&M demoralize Southern Methodist at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas, but that’s the third-largest crowd in stadium history.
More than 53,000 attended Auburn’s Thursday night win against the Wildcats in Manhattan, Kan.
Just six of the 11 SEC teams in action hosted games, while Kentucky, Ole Miss and Tennessee didn’t play. Four of the eight games featured capacity crowds.
Here are the attendance figures from all 14 SEC schools in Week 4.
| Attendance | Game | Date | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 102,321 | Mississippi State at LSU | Sept. 20 | Tiger Stadium |
| 101,821 | Florida at Alabama | Sept. 20 | Bryant-Denny Stadium |
| 92,746 | Troy at Georgia | Sept. 20 | Sanford Stadium |
| 67,204 | Northern Illinois at Arkansas | Sept. 20 | Reynolds Razorback Stadium |
| 66,455 | Indiana at Missouri | Sept. 20 | Memorial Stadium/Faurot Field |
| 53,046 | Auburn at Kansas State | Sept. 18 | Bill Snyder Family Stadium |
| 34,820 | Texas A&M at Southern Methodist | Sept. 20 | Gerald J. Ford Stadium |
| 34,441 | South Carolina at Vanderbilt | Sept. 20 | Vanderbilt 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.
