(04-02-2015 12:16 PM)FIUFan Wrote:  Yes, popularity is a better word for what I was trying to say. Also, you have to agree there are more casual football viewers available during the more convenient time slots which would marginally close the variance between the two class of games if applied uniformally. Certainly the time slot is not a strong enough variable to completely overcome the popularity of marginal P5 bowl games even for the best G5 games, but to make a straight up comparison between G5 and P5 games w/o taking this important factor into account is not fair either.

But casual viewers only tune into college football games if it's a big, important game.

Any G5 v G5 bowl game or a P5 v P5 bowl game featuring lower ranked teams is going to be 95% viewed by the fan bases.

As Wedge has stated repeatedly, two P5 teams with 5-7 records but with huge fanbases are going to dwarf the viewership of any two G5 teams, no matter how highly ranked the G5 teams are.

The only way G5 teams can get high ratings is in the "David vs. Goliath" match-up. People love that. But increasingly, the P5 seek to limit exposure to such match-ups to one game per year: the G5 champion vs. a P5 team in one of the NY6 bowls.