(07-19-2020 10:37 AM)Rabid Squirrel Wrote:  I’m pretty confident in an increase in TV revenue. No chance the networks don’t make new, better deals with all the G5 conferences. 1-2 million people tuned into watch the XFL. 2 million viewers for an FCS playoff game. (Stanley cup playoff average is 1.5 million). The biggest G5 names would draw way more than that. More interest because there would be rankings and also gambling. Football is king and by a wide margin.

March madness would be tough. All the gambling and brackets. The G5 would have to schedule half of their off weeks the first week. Then the other half the next. I’ll take my chances against hockey. Anything south of the Mason Dixon line is watching football. The masters biggest day by far is sunday. Though even Saturday would outdraw college football. But you can still have Thursday and Friday night games to yourself.

(07-19-2020 04:02 PM)Rabid Squirrel Wrote:  Things like the masters, NHL and NBA are on one channel. You have cbs,nbc,abc,fox, ESPN and fox sports net ALL of which show college football in the fall simultaneously. There’s 20 million viewers on Saturday afternoon watching college football. Last years masters Saturday, the highest rated in a long time because of Tiger Woods, had 8 million. That’s 12 million viewers the other networks are salivating over. NBA playoffs get around 4-6 million. NHL playoffs does worse than most good college games. Those networks not showing golf or basketball would love to have top level G5 games to air. The only thing the G5 can’t compete with on TV is the P5 and NFL.

NHL playoffs outdraw G5 football by quite a bit.

G5/FCS football produced 17 games in 2019 with 1M+ viewers.
https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college...v-ratings/
2.95M - ABC 11/2 SMU/Memphis
2.88M - ABC 12/7 Memphis/Cincinnati
2.69M - ABC 1/11 NDSU/JMU
2.51M - ABC 11/29 Cincinnati/Memphis
1.99M - ABC 12/21 SMU/FAU
1.76M - ESPN 11/29 USF/UCF
1.74M - ESPN 12/14 NDSU/ISU
1.74M - ESPN 1/4 Tulane/Southern Miss
1.45M - ESPN 1/6 Louisiana/MiamiU
1.44M - ESPN 10/4 UCF/Cincinnati
1.38M - ESPN2 9/6 Marshall/Boise
1.36M - ESPN 1/3 Nevada/Ohio
1.29M - ESPN 12/30 WKU/WMU
1.25M - ESPN2 12/20 USU/Kent
1.18M - ESPN 11/9 Boise/Wyoming
1.15M - ESPN 12/23 UCF/Marshall
1.03M - ESPN 9/19 Houston/Tulane

Stanley Cup Playoffs highest rated game was 8.72M with an average of 1.5M in 87 games. Their 87-game average would’ve ranked 9th for all G5/FCS games throughout the entire season.

If you take the top 50 SCP/G5/FCS games from 2019, 42 were NHL Playoffs and 8 were G5/FCS games.

And that’s with the bulk of hockey being on NBCSN, a rarely accessed channel by the casual sports fan. If you flipped those hockey games to ESPN/2 and G5/FCS to NBCSN, that gap would escalate.