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UCLA is way down the list at 46K 5-year average.

Cali math explains their budgeting buffoonery

I think everyone is focusing on the wrong thing.  My question isn't about Californians not caring about football, but why the LA schools built such big stadiums. 
They shared the coliseum for a long time.  When USC opened it at 75,000 seats, they played in front of 16,000 fans.  Seems extra silly to then expand it to 90,000+ seven years later for the Olympics.  It was already too big to begin with.
And then you have the mighty RB, built for 1 game a year + Cal Tech's powerhouse of a football squad.  
Huh???

If you want to make a new term for the next two, please share when you do.

NQ2.

Cities built large stadia back in the day because they were flush with money from an expanding population and used the "IYBITWC" philosophy.  I don't know for sure if the cities paid for the building.  A lot of stuff gets built that looks dubious in hindsight.

Their 5 year average is roughly the same as that one-year attendance.  During those seasons they went 11-3, 7-6, 4-8, 7-6, 9-3.  These aren't awe-inspiring records.  That you are asserting these numbers aren't "when they're bad" is just serving to emphasize my point.

It seems like you might be taking this as some slight against California when it's really not intended to be.  It's just an observation.  Californians don't care about college football in the same way that other regions do.  Over the same span USC is averaging around 1K more per game and UCLA is averaging around 12K fewer.  When Ames has roughly 1.8% the population of LA.  There's no opinion here, just the facts, ma'am.

At Iowa State, those are quite good records. The kind you feel very good about when you are a historically bad program.

Im not taking it is a slight (you’ve seen where UCLA plays, there’s no doubt the interest is muted
), but it feels like something that I want to give a little more pondering in depth than just a flat declaration. Like anything in the sport, it’s organic, and there are quirks and such.

I was looking at attendance data and hounded in on a little quirk. A few seasons back(2023), Southern Methodist University was about 10,000 people per game short of filling their stadium. Now that’s in Dallas, a place with a lot of people. I assume people in Dallas are Texans and thus like college football? But they can’t do that? And you’ll tell me it’s different and quirky (which it is), and that’s where we are.

In 2019, USC completed a two year long major renovation of the stadium that included replacing the seating along with the addition of luxury boxes and club suites. The $315 million project, funded solely by the university and managed by architectural firm DLR Group, was the first major upgrade of the stadium in twenty years. The improvements and added amenities resulted in a reduced stadium capacity from 92,348 to 77,500.
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60,000 is 92%???

That percentage is 2024 attendance.