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I always like doing this as the season progress. Ill post the top 10 viewed games of the year and later add a BIG12 only list as well. This list is Sat only games. 

1. Alabama @ Texas 10.6M FOX

2. Notre Dame @ Ohio St  10.53M ABC

3. Oregon vs Georgia 6.2M ABC

4. Tenn @ Pittsburgh 4.46M ABC

5. Kentucky @ Florida 4.33M ESPN

6. Colo St @ Michigan 3.93M ABC

7. Wash St @ Wisconsin 3.92M FOX

8. USC @ Stanford 2.96M ABC

9. Utah @ Florida 2.95M ESPN

10. Cin @ Arkansas 2.9M ESPN

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2 hours ago, joeycovers said:

I always like doing this as the season progress. Ill post the top 10 viewed games of the year and later add a BIG12 only list as well. This list is Sat only games. 

1. Alabama @ Texas 10.6M FOX

2. Notre Dame @ Ohio St  10.53M ABC

3. Oregon vs Georgia 6.2M ABC

4. Tenn @ Pittsburgh 4.46M ABC

5. Kentucky @ Florida 4.33M ESPN

6. Colo St @ Michigan 3.93M ABC

7. Wash St @ Wisconsin 3.92M FOX

8. USC @ Stanford 2.96M ABC

9. Utah @ Florida 2.95M ESPN

10. Cin @ Arkansas 2.9M ESPN

If it ain't too much hassle, can you also post the time the game aired with the top ten lists?

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Also, if it isn't too much hassle, could you also do a reverse, prorated study off those teams vis a vis a their rolling recruiting rankings over the last seven years, with more weight being given to more recent years and less to years as they fall farther away from the present and then put all of that data into a spreadsheet and post it?

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9 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Also, if it isn't too much hassle, could you also do a reverse, prorated study off those teams vis a vis a their rolling recruiting rankings over the last seven years, with more weight being given to more recent years and less to years as they fall farther away from the present and then put all of that data into a spreadsheet and post it?

This plus a breakdown on the different demos. 

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Also, if it isn't too much hassle, could you also do a reverse, prorated study off those teams vis a vis a their rolling recruiting rankings over the last seven years, with more weight being given to more recent years and less to years as they fall farther away from the present and then put all of that data into a spreadsheet and post it?

I’d like to see correlative and causal factors applied here as well, specifically home vs neutral, temperature, and the rise/fall of the S&P 500 the week before these games air. Maybe pull together a machine learning model in Python real quick to do some predictive analysis? Thanks in advance
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3 hours ago, joeycovers said:

I always like doing this as the season progress. Ill post the top 10 viewed games of the year and later add a BIG12 only list as well. This list is Sat only games. 

1. Alabama @ Texas 10.6M FOX

2. Notre Dame @ Ohio St  10.53M ABC

3. Oregon vs Georgia 6.2M ABC

4. Tenn @ Pittsburgh 4.46M ABC

5. Kentucky @ Florida 4.33M ESPN

6. Colo St @ Michigan 3.93M ABC

7. Wash St @ Wisconsin 3.92M FOX

8. USC @ Stanford 2.96M ABC

9. Utah @ Florida 2.95M ESPN

10. Cin @ Arkansas 2.9M ESPN

 

I think it's valuable to put time of kickoff with this too.

It gives better context IMO.

 

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Welp. Guess I wasn't the only one.

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2 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

For a little context, we went into that game unranked as 20 point underdogs coming off a 5-7 season and pulled the fourth highest regular season rating in Fox's history. That's kind of amazing for a game that most thought would be a blowout and over in about 10 minutes.


Yup. Imagine if it were a meeting of undefeateds six games into the season, at night.

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2 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

For a little context, we went into that game unranked as 20 point underdogs coming off a 5-7 season and pulled the fourth highest regular season rating in Fox's history. That's kind of amazing for a game that most thought would be a blowout and over in about 10 minutes.

At 11 am, too.

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2 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

For a little context, we went into that game unranked as 20 point underdogs coming off a 5-7 season and pulled the fourth highest regular season rating in Fox's history. That's kind of amazing for a game that most thought would be a blowout and over in about 10 minutes.

 

A large portion of those viewers hate Texas and wanted to see us get blown out. 

 

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Here's some breakdowns to help @joeycovers out a bit so he doesn't have to do it alone:

 

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Top 3 games by Slot (through week 2):

Noon - 

  1. Bama/Texas - FOX - 10.6m
  2. Nebraska/Northwestern - FOX- 4.4m
  3. CSU/Michigan - ABC - 3.9m

Afternoon - 

  1. Oregon/Georgia - ABC- 6.2m
  2. Tennessee/Pitt - ABC - 4.5m
  3. Washington State/Wisconsin - FOX- 3.9m

Prime - 

  1. Notre Dame/Ohio State - ABC - 10.5m
  2. FSU/LSU - ABC - 7.6m
  3. Kentucky/Florida - ESPN - 4.3m

Late - 

  1. Baylor/BYU - ESPN - 2.4m
  2. Boise State/Oregon State - ESPN - 1.3m
  3. TCU/Colorado - ESPN - 1.3m
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4 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

At 11 am, too.

11am draws the biggest viewer numbers. I controlled for time slots, teams, and networks in two different seasons and 11am central was the highest viewership in both seasons. The post above reconfirms it. Not sure why, but it's true.

Night games are awesome for crowds and the committed college football fans tune in, but it seems that a lot of casual viewers are lost to other Saturday night activities.

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Couple thoughts on the above:

  • the afternoon slot will improve once the SEC gets into CBS season.   CBS has had some duds so far that pulled less than 1m, that will change
  • ESPN isn't there yet, but is nearly being classified as a T1 channel.   It is sort of like 1.5   If you're on a big channel, its great.   If you're on ESPN you're good.   Anything else is kind of a turd burger
  • This is the first year I've seen all of the games on BTN rated.   Last year it was just a few.   What this means is the channel has grown so much that its viewed as other sports channels.   Neither the SECN or ACCN have anything rated.   Take away is the BTN figures are likely showing us the top end of T3 right now, as they're out drawing FS1/ESPNU.   Here's the top BTN games:
    • ISU/Iowa - 1.5m
    • Arkansas State/Ohio State - 1.5m (like 20k behind)
    • Hawaii/Michigan - 1m
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11am draws the biggest viewer numbers. I controlled for time slots, teams, and networks in two different seasons and 11am central was the highest viewership in both seasons. The post above reconfirms it. Not sure why, but it's true.

Night games are awesome for crowds and the committed college football fans tune in, but it seems that a lot of casual viewers are lost to other Saturday night activities.

Noon games have always been premium, always.   That's why the Big Ten sat there with ESPN every week.   The bitch about that game is people hate being at the stadium that early.   Not the case with watching, people turn out.

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CFB 2022 Weeks 0-3
Channel Games Avg Audience
ABC 10 4,336,300
FOX 9 3,814,444
NBC 2 2,695,000
ESPN 14 2,280,429
CBS 3 1,926,333
ESPN2 11 974,091
BTN 11 626,273
FS1 16 485,625
ESPNU 8 263,000
NFLN 2 184,500

Look at the dumpster fire that is FS1 and ESPNU, they're not even beating BTN.   Also, ESPN is outperforming CBS, for now.

 

CFB 2022 Weeks 0-3
Slot Games Avg Audience
Prime 27 2,155,074
Noon 20 1,912,750
Afternoon 28 1,555,000
Late 11 786,636

This looks like it always looks, except Afternoon will catch up

 

CFB 2022 Weeks 1-3
Home Conference Games Avg Audience
SEC 13 2,971,308
Independent 3 2,586,667
ACC 6 2,284,500
Big 12 7 2,083,714
Big Ten 29 1,708,310
Pac 12 9 1,492,222
AAC 3 1,368,333
MWC 7 470,286
SunBelt 2 427,000
MAC 3 183,000

BTN being rated is adding to the amount of games the Big Ten has counted, but they seem to have more home games on TV at this point too.   Also, the Pac 12 seems closer to the AAC than the Big 12/ACC.   FAR too early to draw much from this as the conference season has barely been tapped.

Only big change this week is Penn State/Auburn knocked Washington State/Wisconsin out of 3rd place over all for the afternoon slot with their 4m game.   Other of note:

  • Oklahoma/Nebraska only drew 3.4m.   Considering their game against Northwestern drew 4.4m it just goes to show how much people tune out of blow outs.   I haven't seen the quarterly splits on it, but I'm guessing had this game been close it would have been 6m
  • In prime-time Miami/A&M drew 3.4m on ESPN, while Toledo/Ohio State drew 3m on Fox.   
  • Cal/ND only drew 2.9m.   ND losing is bad for NBC's business.
  • Biggest Pac game was Michigan State/Washington, which only drew a 2.8m on ABC at prime.
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On 9/14/2022 at 8:51 PM, Dnaguy said:

I just hope all 11 million viewers appreciate the shear spectacle of Big12 officiating. I know the Big12 doesn’t get its due nationally. But hopefully they were able to showcase their complete lack of competence to the nation. 

They were so bad that even though it helped their team escape with a win, Bama fans even admitted how atrocious Big12 officiating was in that game.

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On 9/14/2022 at 11:30 PM, Hurtlocker said:

Couple thoughts on the above:

  • the afternoon slot will improve once the SEC gets into CBS season.   CBS has had some duds so far that pulled less than 1m, that will change
  • ESPN isn't there yet, but is nearly being classified as a T1 channel.   It is sort of like 1.5   If you're on a big channel, its great.   If you're on ESPN you're good.   Anything else is kind of a turd burger
  • This is the first year I've seen all of the games on BTN rated.   Last year it was just a few.   What this means is the channel has grown so much that its viewed as other sports channels.   Neither the SECN or ACCN have anything rated.   Take away is the BTN figures are likely showing us the top end of T3 right now, as they're out drawing FS1/ESPNU.   Here's the top BTN games:
    • ISU/Iowa - 1.5m
    • Arkansas State/Ohio State - 1.5m (like 20k behind)
    • Hawaii/Michigan - 1m

Noon games have always been premium, always.   That's why the Big Ten sat there with ESPN every week.   The bitch about that game is people hate being at the stadium that early.   Not the case with watching, people turn out.

Absolutely, and unfortunately for folks who attend the game, it’s the reason OU will always be at 11AM under our current contract../

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On 9/14/2022 at 10:26 PM, Huckleberry said:

11am draws the biggest viewer numbers. I controlled for time slots, teams, and networks in two different seasons and 11am central was the highest viewership in both seasons. The post above reconfirms it. Not sure why, but it's true.

Night games are awesome for crowds and the committed college football fans tune in, but it seems that a lot of casual viewers are lost to other Saturday night activities.

ABC figured this out 20 years ago, it's why they switched their national slot from 2:30 to  11 around the 2001/2002 season.  And yes, it's why Texas-OU has been mostly at 11 AM over that time period.

 

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