Football attendance at OSU took a step backwards in 2015.  Average per game attendance was 36,079 in 2015, the lowest per game average for a season since the 2000 season.  A big year over year jump in single game ticket prices, inconvenient game times, and poor performance of the team combined to cause the drop in attendance in 2015.

Nevertheless, the long-term trend in attendance is upward despite the recent downward dip in attendance.  The other consideration is the relationship of attendance to capacity.  For most of the history of Parker/Reser Stadium, the gap between attendance and capacity was quite large.  That gap narrowed and for a time was negligible in the early 2000s.

When Reser Stadium was expanded in 2005 and again in 2007, the gap between capacity and attendance widened again, but was still small from a historical perspective.  The gap grew again in 2015.

The role that ticket prices play in attendance and changes over time in prices will be examined in future posts.