2024 CFB Talk Thread: Home of the Mega Blue Bloods & FSU

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  1. Tex

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  2. The Banks

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    Home game for Texas moving that needle.
     
  3. CB

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    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
     
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  4. ButchCassidy

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    How does that compare to the top regular season games?
     
  5. CB

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    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
     
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  6. CB

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    nearly as many total viewers for the 4 1st round games as the entire CCG weekend (46.5 vs 43.6 million)
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  7. TC

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    Great, now let’s add more
     
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  8. herb.burdette

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    Coupled with the NFL games, that’s a lot of people watching football.
     
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  9. CB

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    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
     
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  10. herb.burdette

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    It was a great day for sports, even with the blowouts.
     
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  11. afb

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    indiana game "was so bad they shouldn't have been let in", yet got second biggest ratings
     
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  12. CB

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    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
     
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  13. afb

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    sure but it's not like their ratings were in the dump like some have tried to imply
     
  14. 40wwttamgib

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    up here it just means more.
     
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  15. Sir Phobos

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  16. PSU12

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  17. 40wwttamgib

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    Think he left out a few “you know that’s”
     
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  18. Redav

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  19. MG2

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    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
     
  20. Redav

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    Bama fans poisoned some trees. You'll never guess who their coach was during this time
     
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  21. afb

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    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"
     
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  22. Fran Tarkenton

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  23. PSU12

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    Other than the rose bowl, the other 3 playoff games appear to have very low demand, as expected.
     
  24. VaxRule

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    Saban coached at MSU. He knows about fans obsessed with a rival.
     
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  25. IvanTheTerrible

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    Hmmm I wonder if CFB25 will put these in the game.
     
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  26. The Banks

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    If Georgia lays a stinker tomorrow, particularly early on like Boise, Arizona State, and Oregon did, do they rethink the first round bye thing?
     
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  27. MG2

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    rethink it how?
     
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  28. The Banks

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    Change it to 16?
     
  29. VaxRule

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    It would be better to change it to 8 or 4 or 2
     
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  30. MG2

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    That would be a very weird lesson to take away from this playoff and bowl season, IMO.
     
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  31. Owsley

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    make college football regional again, split the natties, and restore glory to the game
     
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  32. The Banks

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    For them to make more money? Seems like the natural decision for the powers that be.
     
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  33. VaxRule

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    Pre BCS bowl tie-ins and stupid flawed polls are what made this sport great in the first place.
     
  34. Owsley

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    Overtime, as-is, is completely cooked as well. Just bring back ties at this point. It adds great banter.
     
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  35. VaxRule

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    You don’t know shit talking if you haven’t cheered for an undefeated, thrice tied college football team.
     
  36. Saul Shabazz

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    with a blowtorch
     
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  37. CaneKnight

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    Imagine if he said this about bama fans when it comes to Auburn
     
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  38. CB

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    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

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  39. CB

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    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
     
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  40. It'sAlwaysSunnyInAthens

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    Welcome to the MLB playoffs.
     
  41. PSU12

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    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
     
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  42. BuckeyeRiot

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    Clolemson
     
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  43. herb.burdette

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    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
     
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  44. Redav

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    ND is the favorite and considered to be points better than UGA by most advanced stats. That was before we lost our starting QB.
     
  45. CB

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    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
     
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  46. ned's head

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    Same as it's always been. Down to it being completely irrelevant for A&M
     
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  47. IvanTheTerrible

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    Brian Kelly not making the playoff with top 8 talent lol. It's poetic I swear.
     
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  48. CF3234

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    Gonna be an interesting crowd tonight.
     
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  49. CF3234

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    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.
     
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  50. TC

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    It's the Sugar Bowl, all you'll see on tv is a weirdly dark room illuminated with a bluish tint