This is one of the first big weekends for college football spring games, so we thought we would take a look at some of the biggest crowds ever to attend these exhibitions.

Measuring and reporting on spring game attendance isn’t an exact science. Some schools make “estimates” with regard to the crowd size while others actually count turnstiles.

Other factors contribute to crowd size, too – cost, new coaching staff, new stadiums, weather, etc. Some schools charge $5 or $10 to attend the spring scrimmages, and it’s safe to assume those universities could/would have slightly larger attendance figures if admission were free.

Lastly, keeping an official record of the crowd at a spring game is a fairly new practice as well - so finding a lot of data related to crowd size prior to the last 10 years or so is difficult.

Today we’ll look at the largest crowds overall, and since the list is dominated by a few schools we’ll list 10 other large crowds from schools not found on the top 10 list.

Ten biggest spring game crowds historically

99,391 - Ohio State (2015)

95,722 – Ohio State (2009)

92,310 – Alabama (2011)

92,138 – Alabama (2007)

91,312 – Alabama (2010)

84,050 – Alabama (2009)

83,401 – Auburn (2013)

81,112 – Ohio State (2012)

80,149 – Nebraska (2008)

78,526 – Alabama (2012)

Large spring game crowds of schools outside the top 10

76,500 – Penn State (2009)

73,801 – Tennessee (1986)

65,000 – Florida (2009)

60,000 – Michigan (2015)

53,818 – Florida State (2011)

51,088 – Arkansas (2013)

50,831 – Kentucky (2013)

46,073 – Georgia (2014)

46,000 – Texas (2012,2013)

45,212 – Texas A&M (2013)