Everyone has a favorite NFL team. But college football has chosen to be exclusive. The P5 does everything it can to keep out schools like UConn, but they expect the good people of Connecticut to watch their freakin' championship?

Yeah, right.

(02-03-2015 03:04 AM)Sultan of Euphonistan Wrote:  Also note that one of the biggest DUI days of the year is Super Bowl Sunday. What are the other big DUI days? Holidays and the college NC game is not one of them.

We made sure everyone at our party had the UBER app for safe rides home. Plus, most of us weren't kids (i.e. those in their early 20's), so this wasn't our first rodeo (probably our 9th or 10th Super Bowl party at this Lake House)...as most of us start enjoying soft drinks/water during the 3rd Q thru the end of the game...to ensure a safe ride home.

6:30 pm EST Sunday Kickoff is perfect for the Super Bowl...even though it was played earlier in the day during the first 15-20 Super Bowls.

NOTE: There was a cool documentary on Photographers who covered Super Bowls for decades...as they showed/described some of their best photos...and a lot of emphasis was spent on the Super Bowls that were played during DAYLIGHT, as it added so much more to their photos (shadows, sky, clouds) vs games played at Night and/or in Domes of today.

(02-02-2015 11:25 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(02-02-2015 09:55 PM)stxrunner Wrote:  

(02-02-2015 09:29 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(02-02-2015 07:24 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  On a Sunday night it would be competing with NFL playoffs for attention and even airtime (sunday NFL playoff games usually start an hour later after wildcard weekend). That would be HORRIBLE for media attention and for ratings.

What if it were the Sunday between the NFL conference championship games and the Super Bowl? It would only be opposite the Pro Bowl in that case.

I don't think it's an issue of timeslot. The Super Bowl is an event. It's ingrained into the American culture. People who don't have the faintest interest in sports attend Super Bowl parties because it's a social thing. I hear people talk about the game that couldn't even name the teams in the game a week ago.

Super Bowl is basically a National Holiday.

The BCS or Playoff Championship Game is just a weeknight TV event...not even close to a National Holiday...or even close to the number of "parties/non-fans that watch it, etc...

Maybe it will becomes something like that one day. 1 year of a CFP won't do it, we'll see after a few years. However, college basketball and 'March Madness' is a National Event.
My point in my first post was to show the difference between 2 events. NFL will always be more popular than college, but I wonder with the rating the Super Bowl got if the CFP will make its way up somewhat and if that has anything to do with being only on ESPN rather than an OTA channel.

College teams belong to smaller diverse groups. NFL teams belong to a region and every working man not just Alumina like college teams do in general. Hence larger drawn because of greater interest.

(02-03-2015 10:11 AM)MWC Tex Wrote:  

(02-02-2015 11:25 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(02-02-2015 09:55 PM)stxrunner Wrote:  

(02-02-2015 09:29 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(02-02-2015 07:24 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  On a Sunday night it would be competing with NFL playoffs for attention and even airtime (sunday NFL playoff games usually start an hour later after wildcard weekend). That would be HORRIBLE for media attention and for ratings.

What if it were the Sunday between the NFL conference championship games and the Super Bowl? It would only be opposite the Pro Bowl in that case.

I don't think it's an issue of timeslot. The Super Bowl is an event. It's ingrained into the American culture. People who don't have the faintest interest in sports attend Super Bowl parties because it's a social thing. I hear people talk about the game that couldn't even name the teams in the game a week ago.

Super Bowl is basically a National Holiday.

The BCS or Playoff Championship Game is just a weeknight TV event...not even close to a National Holiday...or even close to the number of "parties/non-fans that watch it, etc...

Maybe it will becomes something like that one day. 1 year of a CFP won't do it, we'll see after a few years. However, college basketball and 'March Madness' is a National Event.

My point in my first post was to show the difference between 2 events. NFL will always be more popular than college, but I wonder with the rating the Super Bowl got if the CFP will make its way up somewhat and if that has anything to do with being only on ESPN rather than an OTA channel.

College Football has held a "Championship Game" during a weeknight for 15 plus years (BCS Championship Game and now a 4 team Playoff) and as long as its always held on a Weeknight, it won't ever become a National Event like the Super Bowl, either socially (i.e. millions of parties) or obviously in TV ratings (college game still draws a great number).

Super Bowl's ratings will never be impacted by another sport...again, its basically a "National Holiday"...and that will never change.

(02-03-2015 10:11 AM)MWC Tex Wrote:  Maybe it will becomes something like that one day. 1 year of a CFP won't do it, we'll see after a few years. However, college basketball and 'March Madness' is a National Event.
My point in my first post was to show the difference between 2 events. NFL will always be more popular than college, but I wonder with the rating the Super Bowl got if the CFP will make its way up somewhat and if that has anything to do with being only on ESPN rather than an OTA channel.

I don't think being on ESPN versus OTA is a material issue. ESPN is as ubiquitous as any OTA channel and the #1 age 18-49 show is a cable show (The Walking Dead). There's very little difference between OTA and the top cable channels these days. You've already seen many top sporting events migrate over to cable (much of the NCAA Tournament, including the Final Four starting this year, the LCS for MLB, the conference finals for the NBA, the Rose Bowl, an NFL wild card game, etc.).

Now, I do think a Monday night game inherently makes it less of an event compared to having it on Sunday. The average person isn't going to have a party on that day or soak up an entire day's worth of pregame coverage even compared to the New Year's Day semifinals. (Note that this is part of the reason why the Oscars switched to a Sunday time slot when it used to be on Monday. They realized that they could increase the overall value of the event by making it more into an all-day affair of carpet watching and speculation prior to the actual event itself.)

The only Sunday that's really open for the CFP is the week before the Super Bowl, which is too late in the month for the current 4-team playoff format. However, it would be a reasonable national title game date in an 8-team playoff format.

The NFL is 3x more popular than CFB based on the ratings.