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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Only 20 million college football fans tuned in for what should have been the biggest Semi final game in CFB history given the new format and the two major programs on the field…UT vs OSU.
What a colossal fail.
Question…why on earth did they also play these games at 6:30pm CST instead of 8pm? That’s 4:30 in Pacific time zone…before people even get off work. There was no competition. They got to name their own starting time for both semi final games…and they picked 6:30pm central?
Insanely stupid.
10 conference champions make the cfp.
One independent if ranked in the top ten.
Six or five at large.
The entire country is involved. From coast to coast, every state is involved. That is college football DNA.
College football as we know it is heading toward product saturation before anybody expected it.
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8PM kickoff CST ends at roughly 1 AM EST, and midnight CST. All four teams were from those two time zones, and both games were played in them. You’d be asking Penn State fans and local fans in Miami to stay up until 1 AM on a work night to watch the game, in service of trying to get more fans in the least-invested and least-populated regions of the country.
The 2015 semifinal was an 8pm game. 40% more viewers.
They could have had the game with a noon Saturday kickoff with ZERO TV competition.
They choose high school starting times and were lucky to get the viewers they got.
For no good reason they seem to think the NCAA mens basketball tourney schedule is what they should emulate.
Probably won’t watch the ESPN only, Monday night, 6:30 final.
It was also played on New Year’s Day, with roughly a month of notice beforehand.
Noon on Saturday would have obviously been a better time slot, but the venues in which the games were played almost certainly made that impossible; How are you gonna host the Orange Bowl or Cotton Bowl on Saturday when the Dolphins or Cowboys might have had a home game that day?
This isn’t the baseball playoffs, where they’re obviously stupid for starting games at like 2PM local time in the service of like 8 retirees across the country that wanna watch every second of every game and can’t learn to split screen. The real stupid call here is letting the College Football Playoff overlap with the NFL Playoff calendar. If these games were being played the week of Christmas, they could have kicked off in primetime on a Saturday without any issue.
Get the F outta here with that thoughtful and inclusive idea that would grow CFB for everyone…
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10 conference champs? That has never happened and wont! You can forget inclusion. The Power conferences and their pals control the playoffs. G5 will be lucky to get one champ in, and that champ will have to have a ranking that justifies getting a bid. G5 might as well make a deal and have their own playoff. WAY too much money involved and P4 wants ALL of it. Its going to be a dogfight to get in, and thats with 4 conferences. I am just stating reality, not pie in the sky…
Here you go again.
This is exactly where some of you have no basic understanding about our history. This includes you Ryon. You keep writing the same point without explaining basic facts. The same facts that make some of us despise you know who.
We had great runs
What happened to these great runs?
At the same time or shortly after we got hammered by utamafia infused ncaa probation. It happened every single time. Look it up.
As the city of Houston grew so was our football program.
What is the best way to cut, extinguish any momentum?
Get them hit by a utamafia infused ncaa probation.
Why did utamafia did it?
They did it for one main purpose. Cut any momentum that U of H could build.
utamafia knew early on (did not want us in the SWC for decades) that U of H had the potential to be a National blue blood.
But guess what?
We find ourselves in a great position.
We are in a power conference again…Remember the last time we were in one? That was in 1996, yes 1996.
We have a proven HC to rebuild our program.
The BIG12 is so open that pretty much every team can win it. ASU is a great example.
We almost beat utmafia last season. ASU was robbed against the same utamafia. This means that the BIG12 is not far from the sec when getting into the cfp. Remember how Clemson won two National Championships? That is exactly who we can emulate.
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None of that has given us a particularly large fan base at any point in our history.
