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2014 Football Season Regular Season Ratings
In reviewing the numbers at Sports Media Watch and comparing the TV ratings for the major networks, for this review CBS, ABC, FOX, and ESPN this is what I found.

Conf --- Avg Rating --- #Games

SEC --- 2.97 --- 43
BiG --- 2.57 --- 32
ACC --- 2.46 --- 31
B12 --- 1.91 --- 29
PAC --- 1.70 --- 37

Ratings Ranges

7+ - SEC 2, ACC 1
6-6.9 - SEC 1, ACC 1
5-5.9 - SEC 2, ACC 1

4-4.9 - SEC 3, BiG 2, PAC 2, ACC 1, B12 1
3-3.9 - SEC 9, BiG 6, ACC 5, PAC 3, B12 1
2.5 - 2.9 - SEC 7, BiG 7, B12 4, ACC 2, PAC 1
2 - 2.4 - B12 10, SEC 9, BiG 9, ACC 5, PAC 3

1.5 - 1.9 - PAC 11, SEC 6, BiG 4, ACC 3, B12 1
1 - 1.4 - ACC 9, B12 8, PAC 8, BiG 3, SEC 2

< 1 - PAC 9, B12 4, ACC 3, SEC 2, BiG 1

Note: Lowest of the < 1 was a 0.7 rating.

Make of it what you will.

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12-13-2014 12:36 AM
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Not bad considering The SEC and Big Ten were cherry picked games in prime time vs. Noon and 3:30pm starts for The ACC.
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12-13-2014 12:46 AM
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solid, promising
12-13-2014 10:55 AM
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(12-13-2014 12:46 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  Not bad considering The SEC and Big Ten were cherry picked games in prime time vs. Noon and 3:30pm starts for The ACC.
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3:30 is actually a good time slot, imho. Of course, prime time is best since the other conferences are not competing against CBS/SEC games in the 3:30 slot.

The noon games are killers though.

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12-13-2014 12:23 PM
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Shows that ACC football is "top" loaded re: television viewers.
12-13-2014 01:37 PM
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(12-13-2014 01:37 PM)XLance Wrote:  Shows that ACC football is "top" loaded re: television viewers.

But the downside to that "top" is that it is being driven by FSU. Of the 9 games rated 3 or above, all of them involved FSU.

The conference cannot sustain such ratings relying only on one program.

Last year, there were only 6 such games and three didn't involve FSU but were against "name" SEC opponents - UGa/Clemson; Alabama/VT; and Florida/Miami

The ACC needs other teams besides FSU to pull games up to the 3 level or above without it being a King program from the SEC/BiG or ND type opponent.

We'll know we have made it as a football conference when there are at least 2 programs in the league that can do that. We have 1 in FSU, who will be that second program that can do it?

In addition we need two other programs that can attract 2.5 - 2.9 ratings on a consistent basis. Who will those two programs be?

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(12-13-2014 01:57 PM)omniorange Wrote:  
(12-13-2014 01:37 PM)XLance Wrote:  Shows that ACC football is "top" loaded re: television viewers.

But the downside to that "top" is that it is being driven by FSU. Of the 9 games rated 3 or above, all of them involved FSU.

The conference cannot sustain such ratings relying only on one program.

Last year, there were only 6 such games and three didn't involve FSU but were against "name" SEC opponents - UGa/Clemson; Alabama/VT; and Florida/Miami

The ACC needs other teams besides FSU to pull games up to the 3 level or above without it being a King program from the SEC/BiG or ND type opponent.

We'll know we have made it as a football conference when there are at least 2 programs in the league that can do that. We have 1 in FSU, who will be that second program that can do it?

In addition we need two other programs that can attract 2.5 - 2.9 ratings on a consistent basis. Who will those two programs be?

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Miami can be that program if they can start winning on a consistent basis...
12-13-2014 04:21 PM
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(12-13-2014 04:21 PM)Maize Wrote:  Miami can be that program if they can start winning on a consistent basis...

Miami won't make it back until they start beating Louisville and other programs for the top level recruits in "The State of Miami". We have beaten Miami 3 straight. The last two times using players primarily from Dade, Broward and West Palm Beach counties. Louisville has been successful using Miami grown talent since 1985. None more so then the last few years. I hope I am not right but the only way for Miami to be successful again is for Louisville to be less successful.
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(12-14-2014 08:48 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  
(12-13-2014 04:21 PM)Maize Wrote:  Miami can be that program if they can start winning on a consistent basis...

Miami won't make it back until they start beating Louisville and other programs for the top level recruits in "The State of Miami". We have beaten Miami 3 straight. The last two times using players primarily from Dade, Broward and West Palm Beach counties. Louisville has been successful using Miami grown talent since 1985. None more so then the last few years. I hope I am not right but the only way for Miami to be successful again is for Louisville to be less successful.
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Building a team in Kentucky that relies on players from South Florida doesn't sound all that sustainable to me. I realize home-grown may be limited, but you don't want all your eggs in a basket that's over a thousand miles away either.
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RE: 2014 Football Season Regular Season Ratings
(12-14-2014 07:21 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  
(12-14-2014 08:48 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  
(12-13-2014 04:21 PM)Maize Wrote:  Miami can be that program if they can start winning on a consistent basis...

Miami won't make it back until they start beating Louisville and other programs for the top level recruits in "The State of Miami". We have beaten Miami 3 straight. The last two times using players primarily from Dade, Broward and West Palm Beach counties. Louisville has been successful using Miami grown talent since 1985. None more so then the last few years. I hope I am not right but the only way for Miami to be successful again is for Louisville to be less successful.
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Building a team in Kentucky that relies on players from South Florida doesn't sound all that sustainable to me. I realize home-grown may be limited, but you don't want all your eggs in a basket that's over a thousand miles away either.

The two 'Time Frames' Jim is referring to were the most recent being Charlie Strong and his heavy Florida emphasis since he had just come from there ... and Howard Schnellenberger who was very recently from the U when he came to UofL in the mid-80s.

Other than that, I don't believe there is such a heavy reliance on just one area. Ohio and other points in the Midwest are close by, and of course there is a heavy footprint in the South-- but from all over. I saw an incomplete class list of Petrinos commits maybe a couple months ago that had the northern-most recruits coming from KY. The rest were spread all over the southeast, IIRC there may have even been a kid from Oklahoma...
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Petrino's recruiting has always been more Alabama and Georgia heavy with Florida kids mixed in. I still believe Louisville will show well in Metro Miami with Lamar Thomas and Terrell Buckley recruiting for us.
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1. FSU runs the conference in football? Shocking.

2. Every school recruits the State of Florida. Maybe UL having such a high percentage of south Florida kids is unsustainable, but heavily recruiting that area and the rest of the state is a must.
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To varying degrees of emphasis Louisville has recruiting Florida pretty heavily for decades now. That isn't going to change anytime soon and it appears pretty sustainable to me.

Of course you don't put all your focus on one area but Kentucky doesn't produce anywhere close to enough recruits and the Cardinal staff has always looked south.
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