Wow, thanks for the research! It’s amazing the UH is able to do this while being in the AAC. This is why it is so important to hire the right coach to succeed and continue this national attention. I gotta believe that the other conferences are taking note of this.
I’m a little confused with the ratings points and number of viewers. I thought each rating point represented a specific number of viewers which was dependent on the size of the market (with Houston being something like 23k per point). Yet the numbers of viewers don’t match this and are vastly different for some games. How does the 5.4 rating for the LSU at A&M game equate to 305K viewers which is more than the Louisville at Clemson game garnered with a 7.9 rating? ELI5 please.
I believe the Rating is more of an average of the number of viewers during the course of the game while the number of viewers is the number of folks that tune in over the course of the game
For example, LSU-A&M had a large number of viewers tune in, but only watched for a short period of time. Our game vs. Memphis had less eyeballs on it, but those that watched stayed with it for a much longer period of time.
