Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.

At every Michigan football home game, when the attendance is announced, public address announcer Carl Grapentine declares as if by rote: ‘Thank you for being the largest crowd watching a football game anywhere in America today.’

They call it The Big House for a reason, as Michigan Stadium routinely stuffs more than 110,000 people within its grandstands, with more than the official capacity of 107,601 reached on any given Saturday. While attendance waned a bit at the end of the Brady Hoke era, as 2014 was the last year that Ann Arbor wasn’t the city with the highest college football attendance, since Jim Harbaugh came to town, The Big House has been jam packed.

2019 was no different, as Michigan led, for the fifth-consecutive year, college football in attendance, with an average of 111,459.

As a matter of fact, it was the second-highest year of the Jim Harbaugh era, with 111,589 coming through the storied gates in 2017.

But that isn’t even the highest number of fans who have witnessed a game in the house that Yost built.

2014 is the only year recently that Michigan didn’t lead college football in attendance, in average per home game.

Attendance by year (avg. per home game):

2019: 111,459
2018: 110,737
2017: 111,589
2016: 110,468
2015: 110,168
2014: 104,909
2013: 111,592
2012: 112,252
2011: 112,179
2010: 111,825
2009: 108,933
2008: 108,571
2007: 110,264
2006: 110,026
2005: 110,916

2005-2018 stats available at NCAA.com