TV ratings for the 1st rd: OSU vs Tennessee 14.3 million ND vs Indiana 13.4 million Texas vs Clemson 8.6 million Penn St vs SMU 6.4 million meanwhile the two NFL regular season games on Saturday in the early and midday time slots: KC vs Houston 15.5 million Baltimore vs Pittsburgh 15.4 million https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-contin...-round-delivers-strong-numbers-200853439.html
OSU/Tenn and ND/IU are #2 and #3 on the year right behind the SECCG which did 16.63 million Clem/Texas and PSU/SMU are the two most watched games that were exclusively on cable. the previous high was GT/FSU in week 0 on ESPN at 4.99 million
nearly as many total viewers for the 4 1st round games as the entire CCG weekend (46.5 vs 43.6 million)
yep. over the course of the season, on average about 45 million watch cfb on a given Saturday last weekend 29 mil watched CFB, 30 mil watched the NFL
The inaugural game of the 12 team era, on a Friday against no other sport, in particular NFL Had nothing to do with Indiana. If it was Bama it does 15 mil plus lol
Saban being this taken aback by how much people care about winning a rivalry game seems like a pretty big indictment on the importance of the Iron Bowl, IMO
it's the classic 2007 rivals message board thread of "would you rather go 1-11 and always beat your rival or go 11-1 and never beat your rival"
If Georgia lays a stinker tomorrow, particularly early on like Boise, Arizona State, and Oregon did, do they rethink the first round bye thing?
Overtime, as-is, is completely cooked as well. Just bring back ties at this point. It adds great banter.
You don’t know shit talking if you haven’t cheered for an undefeated, thrice tied college football team.
for all the talk about newfound parity due to NIL and the portal and more access giving even more teams a chance to win, here we are on 1/2 with 5 teams still alive and they were 2, 3, 4, 9, and 11 in team talent composite this year it's almost like...stars matter lol
also fascinating to me that if ND wins, then the 4 teams in the semis all hosted a 1st round game definitely didn't expect a semis with 5 vs 8 and 6 vs 7 when the format was originally announced
All the 12 team playoff does is allow teams like OSU this year, or probably Georgia last year to have second chance opportunities. The idea of the Cinderella happening was never gonna be a thing. The Cinderella run is the supremely talented blue blood that played like shit in the regular season getting new life
There always is talk about who gets in and who gets left out. No one who got left out deserved it this year. In the final CFP Poll, the 9 teams ranked 7-13 and 15-16 all lost, and 14 still has to play. 7 Tennessee lost 42-17 to Ohio State 8 Indiana lost 27-17 to ND 9 Boise State lost 31-14 to Penn State 10 SMU lost 38-10 to Penn State 11 Alabama lost 19-13 to Michigan 12 Arizona State lost 39-31 to Texas 13 Miami lost 42-41 to Iowa State 14 Mississippi plays Duke today 15 South Carolina lost 21-17 to Illinois 16 Clemson lost 38-24 to Texas
ND is the favorite and considered to be points better than UGA by most advanced stats. That was before we lost our starting QB.
nah. straight seeding levels out the bye/rust thing imo if they straight seeded this thing, we should have had: Fiesta: #5 Notre Dame vs #4 Penn St Peach: #6 Ohio St vs #3 Texas Rose: #8 IU/#9 Boise vs #1 Oregon Sugar: #7 Tennessee vs #2 Georgia
Using non playoff game bowl results to make your point makes less than zero sense with all the opt outs. But that doesn’t change that your overall point was right. The teams on the fringe were never going to win the whole thing.