Arizona State athletic director Ray Anderson has created considerable debt service to remake Sun Devil Stadium. But this season ASU averaged just 47,736 for home games. That didn’t even match Arizona’s 48,287 for a team that lost eight straight games. ASU and the UA’s low average attendance is a sign of the times in college football’s middle tier; the Wildcats averaged just 47,931 and 47,618 in Rich Rodriguez’s first two seasons, even when it was more exciting with Ka’Deem Carey.
Football school? ASU attendance worse than Arizona's in 2016
A photographer in the east bleachers sits in a pool of light channeled from one of the tunnel entrances on the west side of the stadium in the hours before Arizona goes against Washington at Arizona Stadium, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, Tucson, Ariz. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
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