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RE: ACC may have lost every bowl game, but...
(01-09-2021 04:49 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (01-09-2021 03:26 PM)JRsec Wrote: (01-09-2021 01:05 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (01-08-2021 10:12 PM)JRsec Wrote: (01-08-2021 01:07 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote: ...the TV ratings were AWESOME!
The ACC played in 3 New Year's Six Bowls, averaging 15.2M viewers!
The SEC played in 4 New Year's Six Bowls, averaging 10.2M viewers - 5M less.
True, Notre Dame was one of those ACC teams; if we take them out, the ACC average of two games falls to 13.4M - still 3.2M higher than the SEC games.
ACC: they just watch more!
https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2021/...tings.html
Uh, yeah. You have Ohio State and Alabama and one year wonder Notre Dame to thank for those numbers. When the next highest rated was Georgia vs Cincinnati whoopie do.
Semi finals didn't face any competition for the time slots. All the rest did. So the ACC having Notre Dame count for them is the only difference here.
Actually, the biggest difference is Orange Bowl >> Cotton Bowl.
SEC gets to count Rose, Peach AND Orange... but is dragged down by Cotton.
Spare me. Counting the Notre Dame Alabama game as an ACC game accounts for virtually 65% of the so called difference in the average. This number only assisted the ACC totals and in any other year would not have been counted. Audience of 15 to 20 million is much more easily attained when there is no competing event. The Daytime New Year's bowls all steal from each others totals.
Spare you what - the Truth? If you had read my post, you would know that I calculated it both ways - with and without Notre Dame:
Quote:...The average viewers for the three ACC CFP bowls was a whopping 15,206,333!
...The average of the four NY6 bowls with SEC participants was 10,250,500
...Admittedly, Notre Dame contributed mightily to the ACC's huge TV numbers, but even without the Rose Bowl, the Sugar and Orange Bowls average out to 13,363,000 viewers - still over 3 million more than the SEC average.
This is not cherry-picking. The Cotton Bowl literally had the lowest ratings of the CFP Selection Committee Bowls:
New Year’s Six Games P2+
CFP Semi - Sugar Bowl: Ohio State vs. Clemson 19,149,000
CFP Semi - Rose Bowl: Notre Dame vs. Alabama 18,893,000
Peach Bowl: Georgia vs. Cincinnati 8,727,000
Orange Bowl: Texas A&M vs. North Carolina 7,577,000
Fiesta Bowl: Oregon vs. Iowa State 6,679,000
Cotton Bowl: Florida vs. Oklahoma 5,805,000
The only way to make the SEC average higher is to drop that Cotton Bowl number - PERIOD. Of course, that would be an admission that the SEC/Big XII "champions bowl" idea was a mistake (it was, I just don't expect anyone to admit it). The SEC should've paired with the ACC for best TV ratings, not with the Big XII. (By the way, the Cotton Bowl didn't have any competition in its time slot).
I know this goes against the whole superiority of the SEC in college football thing, but historically, when the playing field is anywhere close to level, the ACC delivers... why do you think the Big Ten and the SEC have gone to such great lengths to stack the deck?
Mark I like you fine, but you have jobbed numbers for the sake of ACC propaganda for as long as I've been on the board. The issue is that the bowl numbers are baked in every year for ESPN and has nothing to do with the ACC's contract. The ACC's numbers since the creation of the ACCN have placed you in 4th position well behind the numbers of the Big 12 and just ahead of the PAC. When you look at those numbers you see the difference in the conferences' contracts plus or minus 2 million due to ESPN or FOX preference.
This year was an aberration and won't impact future contracts and the bowls are wholly separate.
Now does that mean that the ACC shouldn't be encouraged by the numbers? No, you should be. But I'm merely pointing out that you can't peg bowl viewership numbers to conference media contracts. Who is playing in a bowl, how close the game is, (Florida's loss was a blowout), and which other bowls are happening at the same time and who is playing in those games and how close those games are have everything to do with the ratings. The SEC, ACC, Big 10, Big 12, and PAC brands don't. Regular season ratings have the SEC in front of the Big 10 by almost 1 million viewers per nationally televised game. The Big 10 is 1 plus million ahead of the Big 12 and the Big 12 is just under a million ahead of the ACC which has made up ground on them and distanced themselves a little bit from the PAC. When your regular season numbers catch up your revenue will. That's all I'm saying. Notre Dame added 5 million to the ACC viewer count and Florida subtracted almost 2 million from the SEC, but as I said bowl numbers are not apples to apples and not even apples to oranges. ESPN which owns the rights to most of the bowls is the only one who cares and those numbers go into their calculations of who makes how much for appearing. And they've even averaged that out to great extent.
(This post was last modified: 01-09-2021 06:12 PM by JRsec.)
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