The Rattlers drew 60,240 fans for the four home games at Bragg
Memorial Stadium in Tallahassee, good for a per-game average of 15,060. Those
numbers were an improvement over FAMU’s 2014 showing in Bragg, when five
games drew 55,863 fans for a 11,173 per game average.
Back in 2014, FAMU also finished second in the MEAC behind
North Carolina A&T, which brought 72,618 fans to five home games for a
14,524 average.
A total of 18,202 people attended the Sept. 26 home opener
against Tennessee State. The return of the return of the “Battle of the Bands”
between FAMU and Tennessee State University (TSU) helped bring fans out to that
game in large numbers despite the 0-3 record of the Rattler football team at
the time.
The Marching 100 and the Aristocrat of Bands faced off twice
during the TSU visit to Tallahassee for the Rattlers’ home opener. TSU
President Glenda Baskin Glover paid to bring that “Battle of the Bands” to the
FAMU campus despite FAMU President Elmira Mangum’s refusal to do the same for
TSU last year.