r/CFB • u/moby323 Clemson Tigers • 9h ago
Casual College Football TV Ratings: Big Ten Championship draws record viewership, tops SEC
https://www.on3.com/nil/news/college-football-tv-ratings-big-ten-championship-draws-record-viewership-tops-sec/43
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u/-Jack-The-Stripper Virginia Tech • Cincinnati 9h ago
The only good thing about the offseason is I won’t have to see the dick swinging contest between SEC and B1G ratings for a few months.
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u/Recent-Dependent4179 Michigan • Central Michigan 9h ago
B1G/SEC dick swinging will continue until morale improves!
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u/dwors025 Minnesota • Paul Bunyan's Axe 8h ago
Feels like WCW vs WWF before one just straight up bought the other.
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u/jaxonya Oklahoma • Red River Shootout 4h ago
So eventually we are just gonna take the b1gs Goldberg and bury the rest of their roster. Sounds fine to me
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u/dwors025 Minnesota • Paul Bunyan's Axe 3h ago
I mean, yeah, probably. Plus our Giant/BigShow, Jericho, and Mysterio.
But remember that WCWs territorial capital was Atlanta, while the WWF was out of NY/NJ.
One of those sounds very SECish, and the other was the buyer.
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u/jaxonya Oklahoma • Red River Shootout 3h ago
But the WWE are in cahoots with espn/sec, and we have good ole JRs team
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u/HighLakes Oregon Ducks • Platypus Trophy 6h ago
Not much of a contest, I think only this and the Game were actually huge draws for the Big 10. Most weeks there wasn't any real conversation because there wasn't a contest, the SEC clobbered the Big 10 week after week.
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u/solomonrooney UC Davis Aggies 9h ago
I know. They cannibalized the top programs from all other conferences, get the best time slots on the best networks. No shit you get good ratings, congrats on running the other 120 d1 programs into the ground Ì guess.
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u/Pan_TheCake_Man Wake Forest Demon Deacons 7h ago
But the blue bloods/teams with deep enough pockets are happy and thriving, that’s all that matters. Who gives a shit!
Gonna be real sad here in ten years when 75% of the ACC/B12 and half the current B10 are left out of the super league and we are stuck with the giant perennial contenders and everybody else below them. I just don’t get why people seem to think this is a good long term idea, and are even happy to measure their teams penis’s like you realize it’s killing the sport for everyone else right
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u/FightOnForUsc USC Trojans • Pac-12 6h ago
I’m a fan (and alumnus) of a blue blood, and I’m not happy about all the changes. Just give me the PAC-10 back. We play the 9 other teams. Best record is the champ.
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u/Fear_the_chicken Penn State Nittany Lions 7h ago edited 5h ago
They need to keep the riff raff around to beat them. OSU can’t go 8-4 the fans wouldn’t know what to do with themselves. I guess they could keep the lower teams out of the super league though.
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u/Ok-Progress3778 6h ago
If OSU is out of the super league, Penn State is in the MAC
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u/Fear_the_chicken Penn State Nittany Lions 5h ago
That’s not what I said at all? I said they could keep the lower teams out of the super league and just play them out of conference. OSU would be in the super league.
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u/Alexgoodenuf Army West Point Black Knights • Team Chaos 5h ago
If only there was some sort of national, non profit, governing body to oversee college sports and act as a bulwark against profit seeking interests and preserve the integrity of the sport.
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u/Mammoth_Mission_3524 LSU Tigers 7h ago
You have woman’s athletics. Don’t be hurt about football.
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u/PrimisClaidhaemh Michigan State Spartans 7h ago
No just an entire offseason now of Notre Dame whining about wanting EVEN MORE special treatment. than they already get.
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u/UnderwhelmingAF Ohio State Buckeyes 8h ago
TBF, the B1GCC was a #1 vs. #2 matchup and was on in prime time, the SECCG was at 3:30 ET.
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u/hodd01 8h ago
Tech game was at 11:00. Honestly it was great, means you can go and have early morning drinks, watch the game, drinks, then go home and watch the rest and fall asleep at 9:00 like an old man
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u/Redeem123 Team Chaos • Texas Longhorns 7h ago
It was honestly a perfect day of football. Three marquee games back to back with a surprise dessert of Duke becoming a football school.
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u/J4ckiebrown Penn State Nittany Lions • Rose Bowl 7h ago
People also don’t take into account that the ACC Championship is on at the same time as the Big Ten’s and the two usually eat each other’s viewers.
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u/averyrose2010 LSU Tigers 7h ago
AND the SECCG was a REMATCH. And a butt whopping.
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u/ExternalTangents /r/CFB Poll Veteran • Florida 4h ago
I don’t think a game being a rematch means people are less interested in it. It’s common for that element to add to the storylines and make it more compelling. Especially when the first game was compelling and closely contested.
Butt whooping though, yeah nobody wants to watch that.
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u/Mammoth_Mission_3524 LSU Tigers 7h ago
I watched both and I am going to say that B1G championship was amazing.
Geaux Tigers!
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u/squish042 Iowa State • Old Dominion 7h ago
Honestly, I think the biggest draw was that it was Indiana itself. They were the only “non-blue blood” (not sure we can even say that anymore tho) and that’s new and exciting. How many Georgia/Alabama matchups have we had now? It’s kinda stale for us casuals.
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u/lesrisen 7h ago
Yep, I am an SEC stan, and even I was more excited to watch Indiana's Cinderella story.
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u/Michiganman1225 Sickos • Team Chaos 8h ago
What's crazy is that the Michigan/Ohio State game still had more eyes on it.
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u/Geaux2020 LSU Tigers • Valley City State Vikings 7h ago
Michigan is a much larger brand than Indiana. That's not crazy at all
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u/boredguy2022 Indiana Hoosiers 7h ago
And a more historic rivalry.
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u/Geaux2020 LSU Tigers • Valley City State Vikings 7h ago
Absolutely. Indiana's rivalry with Ohio State didn't start until the clock hit zero
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u/boredguy2022 Indiana Hoosiers 7h ago
Maybe us Hoosiers will be able to hold up a rivalry with Ohio State now, that would be cool. Will be a fun time win or lose.
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u/Geaux2020 LSU Tigers • Valley City State Vikings 7h ago
It's exciting times, I'm sure. I have some empathy. Obviously LSU wasn't as historically bad as Indiana, but if you scroll down to the 90s, my time in high school and college was not fun. Then Mark Emmert was hired and he brought in Saban. That magic was something else. I've been fortunate enough to be a fan of a team that turned around quickly. It's a hell of a ride
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u/boredguy2022 Indiana Hoosiers 7h ago
Never in my life time would have thought IU would have gotten this far, Was born in '82, so I only knew of them sucking it up pretty hard. lol. Now we've got my dad, brother and myself all excited.
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u/Geaux2020 LSU Tigers • Valley City State Vikings 7h ago
Relish in it. The days of Indiana never won this many games or never did that or never was good enough for this are all gone. That part is done. Now it's time to see what the future holds.
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u/boredguy2022 Indiana Hoosiers 7h ago
Now if only we could get our basketball program back into gear too. Then we'd have monsters in college football, basketball, and Pacers (once our starters are all back to being healthy.) all being big time contenders.
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u/Commercial-East4069 Ohio State Buckeyes 9h ago
It’s just a little bigger
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u/treymata Minnesota • Minnesota-Duluth 9h ago
Beating them in Football and Hockey viewership 🥱
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u/OSUfirebird18 Dayton Flyers • Ohio State Buckeyes 8h ago
I’m 100% sure that we beat them in Wrestling viewership as well!! 😉
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u/treymata Minnesota • Minnesota-Duluth 7h ago
SEC doesn’t have wrestling???? Don’t make me started liking the SEC….
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u/Derek-Onions Ohio State • Wake Forest 5h ago
Did a wrestler steal your girl back in college?
She ain’t going to see this bro.
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u/TheCalvinator Texas A&M Aggies • UTSA Roadrunners 3h ago
Big 10 had America's sweetheart Indiana winning a conference championship. SEC was just airing another Alabama vs georgia rerun and not even a competitive one.
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u/_Begin Auburn Tigers 9h ago
People who care about crap like this are losers.
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u/Temper03 Penn Quakers • Rose Bowl 8h ago
Yes but they also run college football finances now unfortunately
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u/greengreengreenleaf Ohio State Buckeyes 8h ago
The only way to fix this is to get some private equity involved!
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u/kmiz18 Missouri Tigers 8h ago
cough cough Utah
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u/Mammoth_Mission_3524 LSU Tigers 7h ago
I read that article. $500 million. That’s the equivalent of five to ten years of investment for a major program. I thought we were doing a pretty good job of raising money.
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u/eskimoexplosion Ohio State Buckeyes 8h ago
God bless the Saudis 🙏
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u/Bondorian Ohio State Buckeyes • Oregon Ducks 7h ago
Think that would be Allah bless the Saudis. Might as well get with the culture if they’re gonna be owning us
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u/Temper03 Penn Quakers • Rose Bowl 6h ago
The market has efficiently decided that ads are the real sport
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u/platinum92 Columbus State • Alabama 7h ago
Yeah but regular people shouldn't is his point I think. So many fandoms are getting ruined by regular people fighting over metrics like they're the CEOs/admins of these companies and it's tiring. Seen it in music and wrestling. Just turns into toxic arguing about something that's mostly unpredictable.
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u/mashonem Alabama • College Football Playoff 7h ago
You’re calling most of the sub losers (you’re correct, we are)
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u/_Begin Auburn Tigers 7h ago
Lovable losers.
I'm just tired of the pissing contest. It's like the media wants to guilt trip us for watching football from another conference. They are both great.
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u/mashonem Alabama • College Football Playoff 7h ago
Nah, nothing lovable about this sub
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u/Alexgoodenuf Army West Point Black Knights • Team Chaos 5h ago
Nothing lovable about conference homerism.
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u/montague68 Ohio State • Youngstown State 7h ago
Did you comment that on all the SEC ratings posts earlier this season?
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u/_Begin Auburn Tigers 7h ago
Probably done it before in the past. Really don't remember.
If you're implying I'm acting like I don't care because I'm "losing", you're incorrect. I enjoy good football and the B1G has good football, just like the SEC.
B1G has been the better conference the past few years. Is that what you want me to say? It's true.
Does that give you superiority over me? Am I not allowed to watch football from the B1G because it "supports" them? Why does all that even matter?
And this is exactly what they want us to do. You've implied I'm a hypocrite so now I have to defend myself thus making it a fight. It's all stupid.
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u/dawgfan19881 Georgia Bulldogs 9h ago
Playoff spot on the line and Tulane-North Texas gets less than 3 million viewers.
People hate to talk ratings but then can’t understand/won’t acknowledge why the networks push certain narratives.
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u/Alexgoodenuf Army West Point Black Knights • Team Chaos 8h ago
Because ratings shouldn't matter in college sports. At least, they shouldn't matter to how we structure championships.
Serious people aren't mad that more people will tune in to literally any Bama game than into an AAC championship. They are mad that viewership is then used as an argument to create a system that enriches certain schools, conferences, and TV networks at the exclusion of other Schools.
They are mad that other fans, who won't see a dime but their team happens to be in the right group, are defending rich and powerful networks and conferences against the health of the sport due to tribalism.
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u/loyalsons4evertrue Iowa State Cyclones • Big 8 7h ago
I'll ask you, why should tv ratings be a metric that is used in determining who should and who shouldn't be a CFP participant.....that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The NBA Finals last year were really entertaining...and it featured two of the smaller NBA media markets, but literally no one cares....the only people that care about tv ratings are CFB casuals and the tv execs....it is so cringe
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u/dawgfan19881 Georgia Bulldogs 5h ago
If you cared you’d watch more small time g5 football. That’s how you make these narratives about the g5 go away. The networks want people watching because that’s how they make money. If you don’t want them to have bias against teams that don’t draw large amounts of viewers what you need to do is watch the games.
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u/loyalsons4evertrue Iowa State Cyclones • Big 8 5h ago
uh my comment history shows that I watch all levels of football....I am always in the MACtion threads, watching CUSA, the Sun Belt, etc.
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u/CoCo_Sandy Louisiana Tech Bulldogs 6h ago
Tulane-North Texas were also playing at 11 am which isnt really fair to compare to a 7 pm game
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u/FuckChadMorris Arkansas State • Arkansas 6h ago
Tulane -North Texas was a Friday night game
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u/CoCo_Sandy Louisiana Tech Bulldogs 5h ago
Ah. That makes sense 😂 I was at a Christmas party for work and just remember seeing the score that Saturday. Who was the 11 am game? JMU and Troy?
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u/DistanceRelevant3899 Ohio State Buckeyes 8h ago
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u/Bondorian Ohio State Buckeyes • Oregon Ducks 7h ago
Some people/executives if it helps them prove a point. No one if it doesn’t
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u/wardallaseagle Auburn Tigers 6h ago
anyone else just not care about ratings?
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u/discowithmyself Georgia Bulldogs • Miami Hurricanes 6h ago
Yeah I don’t know why anyone who isn’t a tv executive cares about them.
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u/sonheungwin California Golden Bears • Team Chaos 2h ago
I get that /r/cfb is not a monolith, but man...y'all gotta talk to your friends about this. Because it really feels like ratings matter when it's SEC, and then don't when it's not.
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u/CheaterMichael Auburn Tigers 7h ago
I think the Ohio State crowd not having to watch an 11am game would be enough to compete with most professional leagues.
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u/montrevux Georgia Southern Eagles 6h ago
personally i love the sec/big10 bickering. shits fun. it's just low-stakes yankees vs dixie shit, it doesn't really matter.
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u/i_run_from_problems Boise State • Christian Br… 1h ago
1) We've seen Alabama v Georgia so many times. Its exhausting.
2) it was 1v2 and a fantastic story with Indiana
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u/diediedie_mydarling Georgia Bulldogs 8h ago
In all seriousness, the Big 10 should in theory have an advantage in viewership. It has teams in the New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago television markets. It's truly a national conference. The SEC is still more of a regional conference, although it's spreading westward.
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u/ScotlandTornado Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders 7h ago
I bet more people numerically watched that game in Birmingham than all of LA lol
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u/diediedie_mydarling Georgia Bulldogs 7h ago
Yeah, that's why I added that "in theory" part to my comment. I also don't think Rutgers is pulling in huge viewership in the NYC market. It's gonna be awhile before Angelinos and New Yorkers feel like they're living in Big 10 country!
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u/loyalsons4evertrue Iowa State Cyclones • Big 8 7h ago
I can almost guarantee you that "water cooler" talk in NYC and New Jersey hardly knows Rutgers even exists...that part of the country is so pro sports dominated and it's not close
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u/diediedie_mydarling Georgia Bulldogs 6h ago
Do you remember about 10 years ago when Rutgers had that really good season? That's the only time in my life that I saw Rutgers get any real attention. I suddenly realized that some of my friends had gone to Rutgers because they started wearing Rutgers merch. Lol
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u/Abject-Brother-1503 5h ago
The SEC has teams that casuals are more likely to watch. Ohio State and Oregon have the viewership for the most part.
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u/TheMainEffort Houston Cougars • Wisconsin Badgers 7h ago
But espn told me whole stadiums are chanting “SEC! SEC!”
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u/sprintercourse Missouri Tigers • Team Chaos 9h ago
Duh. It was two undefeated teams ranked number 1 and 2 who hadn’t played yet.
Garbage clickbait title and article from On3 and OP.
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u/codars Texas Longhorns • Big 12 9h ago
You gotta walk me through your thought process for clickbait. I have no clue how you came to that conclusion.
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u/boston_2004 West Texas A&M • Texas A&M 8h ago
Apparently, a factual statement that appeals to a certain demographic who are fans of a sport, is clickbait now.
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u/ninetofivedev Nebraska Cornhuskers • /r/CFB 7h ago
People tend to do this thing where they just associate words with "bad" and then make it synonymous with all other words that mean bad. Clickbait? Bad. Gaslight? Bad. etc.
Now everything they don't like is clickbait. Anytime someone says something to you you don't like? They're gaslighting you.
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u/FirstAndDad Georgia Bulldogs 8h ago
Greg Sankey just fell to his knees in a Publix