NCAA football attendance for 2010 -- in order!

In its infinite wisdom, when the NCAA released football attendance figures for 2010, for the second year in a row it did not list the schools in descending order of attendance after the top 30. Instead, it released the attendance figures in alphabetical order. What good does that do?! Do they just not want to bother because they are investigating half the schools on the list, or are they trying to make everyone look good?

If you are like me and want to see the FBS attendance figures in their proper order, I've done the NCAA's job for them again this year and compiled the following list of average home attendance. Note that all schools listed below the break in the list had attendance figures worse than the top school in the lower division (Appalachian State at 25,715 in the FCS).

Attendance is everything in college football. If you don't believe me, check the last 10 winners of the national championship in red. My motto is that fans have no right demanding that their team finish any higher than their own attendance rankings.

Attendance is also important because the top 81 teams on this list make it into the Project Playoffs plan, which is the world's best plan for a college football playoff and conference realignment. Click the above link for this week's updated playoff seedings!

1 Michigan 111,825

2 Ohio St. 105,278

3 Penn St. 104,234
4 Alabama 101,821
5 Texas 100,654
6 Tennessee 99,781
7 Georgia 92,746
8 LSU 92,718
9 Florida 90,511
10 Auburn 86,087
11 Nebraska 85,664
12 Oklahoma 84,738
13 Texas A&M 82,477
14 Notre Dame 80,795
15 Southern California 79,907
16 Wisconsin 79,862
17 Clemson 77,469
18 South Carolina 76,668
19 Michigan St. 73,556
20 Florida St. 71,270
21 Iowa 70,585
22 Arkansas 68,932
23 Washington 66,264
24 Virginia Tech 66,233
25 Kentucky 66,070
26 Missouri 61,540
27 BYU 61,381
28 UCLA 60,376
29 Oregon 59,398
30 North Carolina 58,250
31 California 57,873
32 Texas Tech 57,108
33 North Carolina St. 56,877
34 West Virginia 56,325
35 Mississippi 55,898
36 Arizona 55,408
37 Mississippi St. 54,999
38 Illinois 54,188
39 Miami (FL) 52,575
40 Pittsburgh 52,165
41 Oklahoma St. 50,812
42 Louisville 50,648
43 Kansas St. 49,816
44 East Carolina 49,665
45 Minnesota 49,513
46 Purdue 48,063
47 Arizona St. 47,943
48 Colorado 46,864
49 Georgia Tech 46,449
50 Rutgers 46,195
51 Oregon St. 45,509
52 Utah 45,459
52 Virginia 45,459
54 Iowa St. 45,395
55 Kansas 44,851
56 TCU 42,466
57 Indiana 41,953
58 South Fla. 40,849
59 Air Force 40,093
60 Syracuse 40,064
61 Baylor 40,043
62 Stanford 40,042
63 UCF 39,614
64 Maryland 39,168
65 Boston College 38,369
66 Connecticut 38,248
67 Hawaii 37,311
68 Northwestern 36,449
69 Cincinnati 35,067
70 Fresno St. 34,120
71 San Diego St. 34,133
72 Boise St. 33,269
72 Vanderbilt 33,269
74 Navy 32,653
75 Houston 31,728
76 Army 31,667
77 Wake Forest 30,474
78 Southern Miss. 29,400
79 UTEP 29,350
80 Duke 28,750
81 Marshall 27,046

82 Rice 25,571
83 Washington St. 24,532
84 Memphis 23,918
85 SMU 23,515
86 Tulane 23,220
87 Colorado St. 22,400
88 La.-Monroe 20,934
89 New Mexico 20,888
90 Wyoming 20,791
91 UNLV 20,612
92 Temple 20,515
93 Central Mich. 20,448
94 Tulsa 20,379
95 FIU 19,808
96 Nevada 19,576
97 Louisiana Tech 19,485
98 Toledo 19,333
99 Ohio 19,046
100 Middle Tenn. 19,024
101 Troy 18,947
102 UAB 18,360
103 Utah St. 17,878
104 Northern Ill. 17,760
105 North Texas 17,718
106 Arkansas St. 17,394
107 La.-Lafayette 17,383
108 Kent St. 16,152
109 New Mexico St. 15,906
110 Eastern Mich. 15,885
111 Miami (OH) 15,519
112 Western Ky. 14,577
113 San Jose St. 14,474
114 Western Mich. 14,255
115 Fla. Atlantic 14,025
116 Bowling Green 13,306
117 Buffalo 12,981
118 Idaho 12,730
119 Akron 10,185
120 Ball St. 8,947