The following lists the top 20 NCAA schools in terms of average home attendance for the '97 & '98 seasons. Total home attendance for all four NCAA divisions (I-A, I-AA, II and III) for '98 was 37,491,078, up 633,229 from 36,857,849:
| SCHOOL | G | '98
TOTAL | '98
AVG. | G | '97
TOTAL | '97
AVG. | CHANGE
'97-98 AVG |
| MICHIGAN | 6 | 665,787 | 110,965 | 7 | 745,139 | 106,448 | 4,517 |
| TENNESSEE | 6 | 641,484 | 106,914 | 6 | 639,227 | 106,538 | 376 |
| PENN ST. | 6 | 579,190 | 96,532 | 6 | 582,517 | 97,086 | -554 |
| OHIO ST. | 6 | 561,014 | 93,502 | 8 | 731,884 | 91,486 | -2,016 |
| GEORGIA | 6 | 513,710 | 85,618 | 6 | 494,375 | 82,396 | 3,222 |
| FLORIDA | 6 | 511,792 | 85,299 | 6 | 512,775 | 85,463 | -164 |
| ALABAMA | 7 | 578,693 | 82,670 | 7 | 492,883 | 70,412 | 12,258 |
| AUBURN | 7 | 567,773 | 81,110 | 6 | 501,267 | 83,545 | -2,435 |
| FLA. ST. | 6 | 482,941 | 80,490 | 5 | 372,001 | 74,400 | 6,090 |
| LSU | 6 | 481,739 | 80,290 | 7 | 561,016 | 80,145 | 145 |
| NOTRE DAME | 6 | 480,072 | 80,012 | 6 | 481,350 | 80,225 | 213 |
| TEXAS | 6 | 464,642 | 77,440 | 5 | 370,200 | 74,040 | 3,400 |
| WISCONSIN | 6 | 464,570 | 77,428 | 6 | 467,281 | 77,880 | -452 |
| NEBRASKA | 7 | 533,305 | 76,186 | 6 | 453,610 | 75,602 | 584 |
| S. CAROLINA | 6 | 448,463 | 74,744 | 6 | 480,041 | 80,007 | -5,263 |
| UCLA | 5 | 368,547 | 73,709 | 6 | 327,531 | 54,589 | 19,120 |
| WASHINGTON | 6 | 428,134 | 71,356 | 6 | 441,534 | 73,589 | -2,233 |
| OKLAHOMA | 5 | 353,885 | 70,777 | 6 | 417,697 | 69,616 | 1,161 |
| MICH. ST. | 7 | 490,989 | 70,141 | 6 | 447,903 | 74,651 | -4,510 |
| CLEMSON | 7 | 482,500 | 68,929 | 6 | 409,918 | 68,320 | 609 |
