(10-24-2013 10:59 AM)bullet Wrote: As I said, I hadn't seen any summary of this year's ratings, but last year the Big 12 was almost even with the Big 10 and far ahead of the ACC and Pac 12.
Define "far" ahead of the PAC 12 and ACC last year?
Conference______ Games__Total Viewers_____ Avg Viewers**
Independent_______21_____93,629,000______4,458,524
SEC______________46____194,871,000______4,236,326
Big Ten___________40____154,154,000______3,853,850
Big 12____________28____101,425,000______3,622,321
ACC (non U*)_____22_____78,182,000_______3,553,727
PAC 12___________38____122,788,000______3,231,263
ACC (w/ESPNU)____27_____79,756,000_______2,953,926
MWC_____________7_____16,494,000_______2,356,286
Big East__________19_____43,796,000_______2,305,053
CUSA____________4_______6,656,000_______1,664,000
MAC_____________8______10,872,000_______1,359,000
WAC_____________7_______7,850,000_______1,121,429
Sunbelt___________6______6,216,000_______1,036,000
1AA_____________1________983,000_________983,000
They were ahead, but not by "that" much. And that was with the Big 12 having it's best year and the PAC 12 having a down year.
* ESPNU games have drastically lower ratings than nay other listed network. Taking out ESPNU games (only really affects the ACC, as the SEC had only 2 U games, and the PAC had 1) gives a more accurate reflection of ratings when compared across the platforms.
**Note that these numbers are only national TV games, but do not include any games on F/X which carried both Big 12 and PAC 12 games last year, but their ratings were not archived for some reason.