You either appreciate spring football and a chance to catch an early glimpse of your team or you don't – there's not much in-between for fans knowing spring games aren't going to reveal much other than vanilla schemes, half-tackling and non-contact for the stars.

With attendance numbers down nationwide across college football last season, fans showing up for games that don't count five months from kickoff are sometimes so low that programs fudge the numbers or in Michigan's case, don't even report an announced crowd.

According to a source close to the team in Ann Arbor, the Wolverines have abandoned the traditional spring game format under Jim Harbaugh and have declined to announce attendance numbers in a PR effort.

"Teams have negatively recruited (against) them on it," the source said.

Michigan isn't the only well-known program that often sees a small numbers of supporters during the spring. LSU suffered another disappointing crowd for its spring game this month while North Carolina, despite an infusion of optimism under first-year coach Mack Brown, saw less than 8,000 (estimated) show up on a dreary day in Chapel Hill.

Here's a look at college football's spring game attendance leaders for 2019:

Editor's note: The following numbers are official announced crowds provided by participating universities.