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Ratings collapse
RaceBannon
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They need to start and end the playoffs earlier in my opinion
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SEC fans don't watch games without SEC teams
HTH
Less than a mill less than the UW Texas game. The Michigan bama game is the outlier in this situation. Click bait
one game was in the middle of the day on a national holiday, one game was on Thursday night and started while 1/3 the country was still working.
clay being intellectually dishonest? No way
I think it was DEI. People are saying that.
Rose Bowl was down too
I didn't watch either game because I don't give one shit about any of the schools who made the Final 4. Guessing that's the same for a lot of people.
Also, I think that the overall quality of the top teams this year is down massively from the past few seasons. I want to see top tier teams, not parity. Save that for the NFL.
I'll link Nicole Aurbach in the future if that helps
College should dominate December because January belongs to the NFL
Thats why they played Thursday night
Semis on New Year's. Championship a week later and exit stage left
I don't think NIL/transfer portal peaking and CFB being overall not very good this year is a coincidence. QBs aren't getting trained like they were when they sat and watched for 2 years before getting in the game for instance
In time, there will definitely be playoff fatigue with this 12-team format.
Only the bluest of bluebloods can consistently muster 40k fans at neutral/distant locations, three or four weeks in a row, on short notice.
Couldn't agree more. Eliminate the conference championship games and play the natty on a Saturday night around Jan 7-10 depending on the calendar
The Rose Bowl will never agree to play on a day that isn't Jan 1 (or Jan 2 if Jan 1 is a Sunday)
So the only way that works is if the Rose is always the semi-final. I wouldn't complain about that, but the other bowls and SEC would, so it'll never happen
They don't want to watch car insurance for several hours.
Also it's rigged pay to win. The teams with the most money are the contenders.
After January there's the bleakness of joyless dark cold winter made more bleak by having only hockey and NBA on tv. Good football is needed then. Football season ends 2-3 months too soon in my opinion.
Now there's an extra bye week in 2025. They need to start the season in mid-August. Finish 3 rounds of playoffs by Jan 2nd, Then have the NC game mid-January. It does seem to be too drawn out this year.
Alabama vs Michigan was in New Years Day at the Rose Bowl. Penn St vs Notre Dame was on a Thursday night. Apple and Oranges. How did the initial Bama vs Michigan ratings compare to Oregon vs Ohio St. That’s a better comparison.
Missed Race’s comparison. But yeah the Rose Bowl at a 24m peak was still under for this year. Had the game been competitive, I’m sure it would have been right in line.
Seven games before fall quarter even starts at UW sounds about right.
Cuogs will cry foul
Quarterfinals should be home games for the higher seed
I don't even think it will be 40k. Most alumni are middle class. They don't have thousands lying around to go to fly to 3 or 4 games. Plus there's taking time off, arranging babysitters, pet sitters or kennels and everything else. Plane tickets five days in advance tend to be expensive. It's easy to just watch it on TV.