2025 Attendance Highlights Unwavering Support of WVU Football Fans

While the 2025 season has caused concerns about the future of the WVU football program, it’s also highlighted the unwavering support of the fanbase.

A college football fan recently posted the home attendance for a select number of schools across the country on social media, showing West Virginia near the top despite the struggles of the team. WVU recorded an attendance of 54,110 for their 23-17 loss to TCU on Oct. 25.

Of the schools listed, only Virginia and Indiana, both College Football Playoff contenders, enjoyed a larger attendance at their most recent home game.

Honestly, WVU's attendance being at this level during a season that can literally argue as the worst of the modern era is really impressive and a testament to the fanbase. With all of the injuries and blowout losses, it would be understandable for fans to stay home. https://t.co/EwfOusmCHw

— Mike J. Asti (@MikeAsti11) October 31, 2025

To further emphasize the fan support, North Carolina, also enduring a miserable season with a big name first year head coach, had 50,500 fans at their game. And to no surprise, Pitt, who has turned their season around with a five-game win streak following their loss to WVU, had only 46,840 fans at their 53-34 win over North Carolina State. Maryland, another similar program to WVU, recorded an attendance of 39,623 the same day.

Taking a deeper dive, West Virginia is averaging 56,819 fans at home games so far in 2025. If that number holds, the 2025 season will go down as the worst on the field, yet the best since 2028 in terms of attendance. Back in 2018 when Dana Holgorsen was in his final year at the helm, WVU averaged 58,158. The 2018 season also marks the last time the Mountaineers ranked by the Associated Press.

WVU’s most attended 2025 game is when 62,108 fans experienced the Backyard Brawl, which also stands as the single most attended WVU football home game since 2003, granted there have been a myriad of other seasons with a single-game attendance high of at least 60,000 throughout that timespan.

Winning in attendance may not make any fan feel better about losing games, but so much support during such a rough season is a testament to the WVU fanbase as a whole.

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