I've been doing a little preliminary research for the inevitable "We've sold out every home game for the last 400 years!" (Actually 311 games.) To which my initial reply will be, "Sure, it's easy to sellout when you have a cozy little stadium that only seats 81,000."


Their streak started on November 3, 1962 with 36,501 in attendance.

Current capacity is 81,067

Record attendance is 86,304

Michigan Stadium's capacity when their streak started with 36,501 - 101,001

Michigan Stadium's capacity when built in 1927 - 84,401, which means it was bigger from the start than Memorial Stadium is today!

All that to ask for your help. I've checked most of the usual sites (MBoBlue, Bentley's, etc) trying to find the game-by-game attendance so I can blow them away by saying we've outsold their sellouts by XXXXX amount/number of years/number of games, etc.

For instance: If we've had consecutive attendance of more than 36,501 since Michigan Stadium's first game, we can say their streak of 48 years sucks when compared to our attendance for the last 83!

An indication that the above statement is most likely true:

"The Wolverines continued to draw crowds in the 80,000 range for 20 years, and in 1949, plans were drawn up to increase the size of the stadium." *

* http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/mich/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/michigan-stadium.pdf