It's back!
1 15.893 Ohio St/Michigan Fox Noon week 13
2 15.277 Alabama/Georgia SEC 4pm week 14
3 11.658 Iowa/Michigan Fox 8pm week 14
4 10.369 Alabama/Auburn CBS 330pm week 13
5 9.289 Michigan/Mich St Fox Noon week 9
6 8.863 Georgia/Clemson ABC 730pm week 1
7 8.334 Alabama/Texas A&M CBS 8pm week 6
8 8.021 Baylor/Oklahoma St ABC noon week 14
9 7.863 Alabama/Florida CBS 330pm week 3
10 7.751 Notre Dame/Florida St ABC 730pm week 1
goodbye to:
8 7.730 Oregon/Ohio St Fox noon week 2
9 7.606 Auburn/Penn St ABC 730pm week 3
10 7.051 Penn St/Ohio St ABC 730pm week 9
by conference
SEC 5- 4 conference games
B10 3- 3 conference games
ACC 2
B12 1- 1 conference game
ND 1
by time
noon 3
330/4pm 3
730/8pm 4
by network
CBS 4
ABC 3
Fox 3
I had started a similar thread tracking games over 5 million viewers. I have a feeling there will be over 10 games over 10 million this season.
(09-21-2021 09:18 PM)schmolik Wrote: [ -> ]I had started a similar thread tracking games over 5 million viewers. I have a feeling there will be over 10 games over 10 million this season.
5 over 7 million at this point is really good.
going back to 2019, #10 was 7.71 Million. Georgia/Clemson would have been #8 in 2019.
(09-21-2021 09:09 PM)stever20 Wrote: [ -> ]It's back!
1 8.863 Georgia/Clemson ABC 730pm week 1
2 7.863 Alabama/Florida CBS 330pm week 3
3 7.751 Notre Dame/Florida St ABC 730pm week 1
4 7.730 Oregon/Ohio St Fox noon week 2
5 7.606 Auburn/Penn St ABC 730pm week 3
6 6.295 Ohio St/Minnesota Fox 8pm week 1
7 5.674 Alabama/Miami ABC 330pm week 1
8 5.409 Penn St/Wisconsin Fox noon week 1
9 4.478 Washington/Michigan ABC 730pm week 2
10 4.502 Texas A&M/Colorado Fox 330pm week 2
by conference
B10 5- 2 conference games
SEC 5- 1 conference game
P12 3
ACC 3
ND 1
by time
noon 2
330pm 3
730/8pm 5
by network
ABC 5
Fox 4
CBS 1
Thanks Stever, my favorite thread every year.
(09-21-2021 09:09 PM)stever20 Wrote: [ -> ]It's back!
1 8.863 Georgia/Clemson ABC 730pm week 1
2 7.863 Alabama/Florida CBS 330pm week 3
3 7.751 Notre Dame/Florida St ABC 730pm week 1
4 7.730 Oregon/Ohio St Fox noon week 2
5 7.606 Auburn/Penn St ABC 730pm week 3
6 6.295 Ohio St/Minnesota Fox 8pm week 1
7 5.674 Alabama/Miami ABC 330pm week 1
8 5.409 Penn St/Wisconsin Fox noon week 1
9 4.478 Washington/Michigan ABC 730pm week 2
10 4.502 Texas A&M/Colorado Fox 330pm week 2
by conference
B10 5- 2 conference games
SEC 5- 1 conference game
P12 3
ACC 3
ND 1
by time
noon 2
330pm 3
730/8pm 5
by network
ABC 5
Fox 4
CBS 1
No Big 12 games? No BYU games?
Nope. best one was Nebraska/Oklahoma at 4.21 Million.
Updated thru week 4. 1st time I can remember, we have a tie for 10th place.
(09-28-2021 12:07 PM)stever20 Wrote: [ -> ]Updated thru week 4. 1st time I can remember, we have a tie for 10th place.
Good stuff.
Any of my fellow college football stats nerds have a record of the highest TV ratings for a G5 vs G5 regular-season matchup (not including Army, Navy or Air Force)?
Maybe the "War on I-4" in 2017 when UCF and USF were playing for the AAC East title (I'm a Floridian, so that's why that particular game comes to mind)?
updated for week 5. only Ole Miss/Alabama cracks the top 10, and won't be on there for long at #10.
You don’t have that captivating player like Teblow or Burrow. Until we get that player, ratings will plateau here. Also Bama fatigue. But ratings should top out with UGa vs Bama 12-0 vs 12-0. Although if both schools clinch a CFP spot before going into Atlanta it may be a moot point. Ohio St Iowa 11-1 vs 12-0 will also do a big rating. PSU Iowa this week will do a number.
(10-06-2021 06:34 AM)RUScarlets Wrote: [ -> ]You don’t have that captivating player like Teblow or Burrow. Until we get that player, ratings will plateau here. Also Bama fatigue. But ratings should top out with UGa vs Bama 12-0 vs 12-0. Although if both schools clinch a CFP spot before going into Atlanta it may be a moot point. Ohio St Iowa 11-1 vs 12-0 will also do a big rating. PSU Iowa this week will do a number.
Will be interesting to see the number for Alabama/A&M. Could have been much larger obviously.
Will be interesting to see how Penn St/Iowa does against Georgia/Auburn- which starts 30 minutes earlier.
The year though is off to a great start compared to normal. I mean 2019 right now we only had 2 games that had more than 7 million viewers. We have 5 right now.
(10-06-2021 06:34 AM)RUScarlets Wrote: [ -> ]You don’t have that captivating player like Teblow or Burrow. Until we get that player, ratings will plateau here. Also Bama fatigue. But ratings should top out with UGa vs Bama 12-0 vs 12-0. Although if both schools clinch a CFP spot before going into Atlanta it may be a moot point. Ohio St Iowa 11-1 vs 12-0 will also do a big rating. PSU Iowa this week will do a number.
Also, I still think there is a lingering virus effect.
(10-06-2021 07:43 AM)quo vadis Wrote: [ -> ] (10-06-2021 06:34 AM)RUScarlets Wrote: [ -> ]You don’t have that captivating player like Teblow or Burrow. Until we get that player, ratings will plateau here. Also Bama fatigue. But ratings should top out with UGa vs Bama 12-0 vs 12-0. Although if both schools clinch a CFP spot before going into Atlanta it may be a moot point. Ohio St Iowa 11-1 vs 12-0 will also do a big rating. PSU Iowa this week will do a number.
Also, I still think there is a lingering virus effect.
I think the ratings are doing pretty well. Just last week wasn't exactly a great slate of games names wise- and only 1 game really was a good one on the field. Will be really interesting like I said to see this week.
The Cincinnati-Notre Dame game drew 3.805M, pretty good for that dreaded 02:30 EST slot. That rating was the best ND rating for that slot in five years, with the exception of ND-Duke last year which was a fluke COVID rating because everything else was basically cancelled.
UC-ND also went up against Michigan-Wisconsin (noon), Alabama-Ole Miss and Arkansas Georgia. These four games were 4 of the top 5 viewed games of the week. They basically cannibalized each other so there was no one or two monster rating.
(10-06-2021 07:56 AM)stever20 Wrote: [ -> ] (10-06-2021 07:43 AM)quo vadis Wrote: [ -> ] (10-06-2021 06:34 AM)RUScarlets Wrote: [ -> ]You don’t have that captivating player like Teblow or Burrow. Until we get that player, ratings will plateau here. Also Bama fatigue. But ratings should top out with UGa vs Bama 12-0 vs 12-0. Although if both schools clinch a CFP spot before going into Atlanta it may be a moot point. Ohio St Iowa 11-1 vs 12-0 will also do a big rating. PSU Iowa this week will do a number.
Also, I still think there is a lingering virus effect.
I think the ratings are doing pretty well. Just last week wasn't exactly a great slate of games names wise- and only 1 game really was a good one on the field. Will be really interesting like I said to see this week.
FWIW, I thought it was a great slate of games. I had four screens going all day and sometimes I felt I needed more. Georgia vs Arkansas, Alabama vs Ole Miss, LSU vs Auburn, Oregon vs Stanford, Michigan vs Wisconsin, Notre Dame vs Cincy.
What was missing was the drama amongst the biggest games. Alabama vs Ole Miss and Georgia vs Arkansas were instant blowouts, and that seems to dampen ratings considerably.
(10-06-2021 08:10 AM)quo vadis Wrote: [ -> ] (10-06-2021 07:56 AM)stever20 Wrote: [ -> ] (10-06-2021 07:43 AM)quo vadis Wrote: [ -> ] (10-06-2021 06:34 AM)RUScarlets Wrote: [ -> ]You don’t have that captivating player like Teblow or Burrow. Until we get that player, ratings will plateau here. Also Bama fatigue. But ratings should top out with UGa vs Bama 12-0 vs 12-0. Although if both schools clinch a CFP spot before going into Atlanta it may be a moot point. Ohio St Iowa 11-1 vs 12-0 will also do a big rating. PSU Iowa this week will do a number.
Also, I still think there is a lingering virus effect.
I think the ratings are doing pretty well. Just last week wasn't exactly a great slate of games names wise- and only 1 game really was a good one on the field. Will be really interesting like I said to see this week.
FWIW, I thought it was a great slate of games. I had four screens going all day and sometimes I felt I needed more. Georgia vs Arkansas, Alabama vs Ole Miss, LSU vs Auburn, Oregon vs Stanford, Michigan vs Wisconsin, Notre Dame vs Cincy.
What was missing was the drama amongst the biggest games. Alabama vs Ole Miss and Georgia vs Arkansas were instant blowouts, and that seems to dampen ratings considerably.
some great matchups- but like Georgia/Arkansas, Alabama/Ole Miss, Notre Dame/Cincy not matchups with 2 name teams. LSU/Auburn was a 9pm et start so that hurts. Michigan/Wisconsin wasn't a great game. Oregon/Stanford was- but not exactly was expected to be a great game.
It's nothing like this weekend. Georgia/Auburn. Iowa/Penn St(ok not really 2 big name teams, but 2 top 5 teams). Oklahoma/Texas. I'd guess at least 2 of those will be on the top 10 after this weekend, if not all 3.
Interesting article on week 5:
https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2021/10...iewership/
"...Ranking second for the weekend, Michigan-Wisconsin drew a 2.5 and 4.31 million in the FOX “Big Noon Saturday” window — up 56% in ratings and 60% in viewership from TCU-Texas last year (1.6, 2.70M) and up 32% and 53% respectively from 2019 (Texas Tech-Oklahoma: 1.9, 2.81M). The Wolverines’ win outdrew ESPN’s competing Arkansas-Georgia game, the site of College Gameday (2.2, 3.85M). The FOX “Big Noon” game has won its timeslot in all five weeks this season.
FOX also drew a 1.5 and 2.62 million for Oklahoma-Kansas State later in the day, up 14% and 29% respectively from 2019 (USC-Washington: 1.3, 2.03M).
The network is now averaging 4.03 million season-to-date, up 32% from 2019 (3.04M) and its best start to a season on record.
ESPN/ABC took the third and fourth-place spots. ABC’s Indiana-Penn State primetime game averaged a 2.3 and 4.00 million, up 8% from last year (Oklahoma-Iowa State: 2.1, 3.71M) but down 35% from 2019 (Ohio State-Nebraska: 3.5, 6.14M).
ESPN’s previously-mentioned Arkansas-Georgia game delivered a cable season-high 2.2 (+44%) and 3.85 million (+52%), its largest audience for a Noon ET game since 2016. ESPN ended up with the top two cable audiences of the season Saturday, its primetime Auburn-LSU game close behind at a 2.2 and 3.79 million — flat in ratings and down 10% in viewership from Auburn-Georgia last year (2.2, 4.22M).
Returning to broadcast, Cincinnati’s upset of Notre Dame ranked fifth for the weekend with a 2.2 and 3.81 million on NBC. Notre Dame’s second NBC game last season, a primetime matchup against Florida State, had a 1.6 and 2.92 million...."
Don't think anything gets added this weekend. Maybe Kentucky/Georgia if it's close early.
late update- Kentucky/Georgia got on the top 10. Nothing else over 4 million.
top game in week 8 only 4.679 million viewers. Not close to top 10.