(01-08-2020 11:05 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(01-08-2020 10:50 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-08-2020 10:41 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(01-07-2020 06:29 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(01-07-2020 06:07 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Auburn / Minnesota would have been more highly rated but it was going head to head with Michigan / Alabama which admittedly was a much more compelling match up. That's the problem with viewing numbers in the noon slot on New Year's day. Right now 3 bowls are played in that time slot.

ND/Iowa State went up against Memphis/Penn State as well, I believe.

Yes, the Cotton Bowl and Camping Bowl were both on at 1 PM EST. The Camping Bowl was on ABC, the Cotton Bowl on ESPN.

To me New Year's day is an extremely frustrating and mismanaged day. You are coming off of two weeks worth of lesser bowl games strung out to tease their way to New Year's day with every bowl carefully spaced not to overlap and when you get to the day where the match ups involve better teams and the bowls still have a semblance of consequence to them you get 3 key games at once, an overlap of the Rose with the Sugar. Quite frankly that pisses me off! I know none of them want to give up New Year's day, but it seems to me if they actually made those games more accessible that all of their ratings would go up and that should make them more profitable. But 3 key games year after year at the same time is just stupid.

For a very long time, the Orange and Sugar Bowls were both played at night on New Year's Day. I think it was only with the start of the CFP that the Sugar Bowl got the Orange Bowl kicked out of that time slot.

And, IMO... why not play all those games on NYD. It's the day for bowl games. Switch back and forth, have a few TVs going, whatever. Who cares which game has the best Nielsen rating.

Yes, my sense is that the CFP has done a better job of spacing out the NY6 bowls and giving them their own time slots than was done in previous eras.

IIRC, this year, the only NY6 that shared a time slot with any other bowl was the Cotton Bowl. The other five all had their own slots. And it's harder to do that with 6 major bowls than it was with 4 in the past.