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The 30 Most Loyal Groups of Fans in College Football

By Zach Bigalke

Sep 10, 2016; Tallahassee, FL, USA; Florida State Seminoles fans cheer prior to the game against Charleston Southern at Doak Campbell Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Glenn Beil-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 10, 2016; Tallahassee, FL, USA; Florida State Seminoles fans cheer prior to the game against Charleston Southern at Doak Campbell Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Glenn Beil-USA TODAY Sports /
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Sep 10, 2016; Baton Rouge, LA, USA; LSU Tigers fans wait in the stands as rain comes down over Tiger Stadium during a lightning delay prior to kickoff against the Jacksonville State Gamecocks. Mandatory Credit: Crystal LoGiudice-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 10, 2016; Baton Rouge, LA, USA; LSU Tigers fans wait in the stands as rain comes down over Tiger Stadium during a lightning delay prior to kickoff against the Jacksonville State Gamecocks. Mandatory Credit: Crystal LoGiudice-USA TODAY Sports /

9. LSU Tigers

Average Home Attendance 2006-2015: 94,306 (99.9% of capacity)
Average Season Winning Percentage: .769
Seasons Under 90% Capacity: 0
Seasons Over 100% Capacity: 6

Among the most exciting and simultaneously fearsome venues for road teams in college football is a night game at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge. Recently expanded by nearly 10,000 seats before the 2014 season, the home ground of the LSU Tigers regularly welcomes more than 100,000 of its fans to party and revel in football. And even as those fans have had to watch their former coach Nick Saban dominate their division for another team, they’ve kept coming back to Death Valley to continue intimidating opponents.

Though the expansion to Tiger Stadium has meant that the team no longer a regular string of sellouts, it still means that at even those games that fail to reach capacity there are more fans than used to pack the pre-renovation configuration. Overall this is a fan base which has gone so far as to send death threats to their own coach after losing to a tough non-conference opponent on the road. As such there is no shortage of rabidity among Tigers fans, who can match up with any other fan base in the SEC in terms of intensity.

LSU’s fan base remains among the rowdiest in the game. Even if the Bayou Bengals stopped winning, their fans would continue to turn out en masse in purple and gold to rally on their school.

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