(04-01-2015 08:20 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(04-01-2015 07:24 PM)GSU Eagles Wrote:  

(04-01-2015 05:23 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(04-01-2015 04:35 PM)GSU Eagles Wrote:  

(03-31-2015 10:17 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  Primarily because Clemson knows it can schedule the game with Georgia Southern, kick your ass and make a profit.


Clemson is in the ACC with Wake but Clemson is not Wake.

Buddy I watched that Clemson vs Wofford game a few years ago when Wofford was down 1 point late in the fourth. Wasn't much kickin ass and profiting in that game, lol.

I just hope they underestimate us like you appear to be doing.

That was in 2011. New DC, new OC's, totally new team in Clemson, and in the six games against non-P5 competition since that Wofford game the average margin of victory has been 39 points.

Oh, did I mention I watched the GT/Clemson game last year. Our offense torched GT last year in a game we had won until the ACC refs stepped in with the most ridiculous replay reversal ever.

Cool story bro.

Did you watch the GSU/NCSU game? I was at the NCSU/Clemson game and I'm pretty sure they are still trying to get the ball in the endzone. How did y'all fare against them?

Against GT we were driving and in field goal range when Watson went down with the knee injury. Our also injured backup QB stepped in the game an promptly threw a pick six. He threw another pick six later in the game as well, which means he contributed twelve of GT's 28 points. We held the vaunted GT offense to 353 total yards. They put up 536 on you.

You know our fan base and you know we think we can win every game... because we can. We probably won't but I hope your boys are ready to play.

(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.