You might say… the amazon game couldn’t hold a kindle to the CFP game?
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Of course, for the price of one UT/A&M ticket last year, you could have gotten tickets to all four of those games. Wanna guess how many NFL playoff games the ratings on that one beat? In prime time, on a national network, on a Saturday?
And how much competition did it have that day? Answer loads and loads.
But damn…they put it on ABC at least. Crazy that UT/OSU won’t be.
Who is stronger than the cfp p2 cartel?
The actual answer is basically none in their time slot, relative to an NFL Playoff game. The other games in the 7:30PM Saturday time slot that week combined for about one fifth of the Texans-Browns game. You could combine the ratings UT/A&M drew with Michigan/Ohio State and still be about 7 million short of Browns/Texans.
It’s not about competition, because there is none. The NFL is the most-consumed TV product in the US. Going up against them is a bad decision.
Uhmmmmmmmmm…
Washington vs Oregon
LSU vs OU
KSU vs ISU
Florida vs Florida St
Purdue vs Indiana
All played at the exact same time as UT vs A&M…which still did 9.45Million viewers.
I’d put money on UT vs OSU, if it was on ABC, beating Ravens vs Steelers on Prime video.
And again…a noon Saturday game would have zero competition.
(edited game list as I didn’t notice some were on other days of the week…I was apparently only paying attention to time slot)
GT @ UGA was on Friday night, as was Nebraska @ Iowa. Memphis @ Tulane (lol that they’re even included) was on Thursday.
The 7:00/7:30 window on 11-30:
UT @ A&M - 9.45 Million
Washington @ Oregon - 2.57 Million
Oklahoma @ LSU - 2.09 Million
UF @ FSU - 1.37 Million
Purdue @ Indiana - 0.72 Million
Kansas State @ Iowa State - 2.01 Million
Saturday prime-time window without UT/A&M - 6.75 8.76 Million viewers
Browns @ Texans - 29 Million viewers
My math was a little off when I did it in my head; the “competition” that UT @ A&M was up against that night totaled about 23.27% 30.20% of Browns @ Texans. It’s not close.
EDIT: ok, I forgot KSU/ISU. So make that little over 30%. Still not even close to the same amount of competition.
Thursday on ESPN only…not a great night for any CFP semifinal game. Whoever made that decision should be fired. It was a great game but got lower ratings than last year due to inept scheduling.
“CFP semifinal at the Orange Bowl averaged an 8.9 rating and 17.80 million viewers”
“ratings and viewership fell sharply from last year’s first semifinal, Michigan-Alabama at the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day (13.0, 27.76M)”
10 million less viewers. Wow.
Not surprised by this considering you have to get a subscription service and do all kind of gymnastics to watch for free like free trials and all. People like me just say, forget it. I’ll just wait on the finale. casual fan is not going to pay. Their spoiled by the NFL getting it for free on network TV. People and NCAAF powers need to realize this I am sure they do. It’s the 1st iteration they’ll figure it out eventually to increase viewership
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I didn’t watch either since I don’t have ESPN.
And the final …on a Monday…also on ESPN only…effing stupid.
I’ll most likely not watch it either. Can’t believe I even typed that but it’s true
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