Ranking the college football teams with the most fans                                                     

Here are four words fans from across the country have been longing to hear: College football is here.  he action will get underway on Saturday, Aug. 27, with 11 games in Week 0. The action will pick up the following week once teams in the top 25 finally take the field. 

The early-season slate will see some of the sport’s most popular teams face one another. While there is a ranking for how strong each team is entering the season, someone took things a step further by measuring those teams’ fans.

By combining several studies from The New York Times and FiveThirtyEight, 2020 U.S. Census data, Google trends and more, Tony Altimore of Altimore Collins & Company was able to analyze the size of 130 FBS fanbases, including breakdowns by school and conference. 

Here’s what Altimore’s findings tell us ahead of the 2022 college football season:

Which college football team has the biggest fanbase?
The biggest fanbase in college football resides in Columbus, Ohio.

Altimore estimates that Ohio State has 11.26 million fans in all. The Buckeyes are the only team with an eight-figure fanbase in his findings.

Notre Dame ranks second with over 8 million fans. The two programs with the biggest fanbases will go head-to-head in Week 1 of the college football season, as the Fighting Irish will head to the Horseshoe for a primetime battle on Sept. 3.

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