2017-18 Report: College football popularity highlighted by impressive ratings and attendance data

Meek

interesting (and long) summary of the popularity of college football.

boxscorenews.com/report-college-football-popularity-highlighted-by-impressive-ratin-p146954-68.htm#.WvyE2ESwwx8.facebook

Pac12 Network gets a shout out too for its most interesting and popular part of last season!!

"The Pac-12 Networks delivered its most-watched Facebook Live video ever during the Sept. 2 USC postgame press conference, which featured blind long-snapper Jake Olson who played in the Trojan's 49-31 win over Western Michigan. FOX Sports also reported a Pac-12 Networks production, highlighting Olson's snap on FOX Sports' Facebook page, ranked as one of their most-viewed videos of the 2017 season with 2.7 million views. Click here to watch the video."



so, there you have it sports fans...the Pac12 Network's only real contribution to the national college football conversation was a Facebook livestream of a blind center getting his make-a-wish moment.

I'm sure there are a lot of good reasons why Larry Scott is the highest paid commissioner in the land, but I just don't get to see them unless I'm visiting China or Australia.

Dennis_DeYoung

CFB is the best sport in the world. Well, at least the US. I don’t like soccer much, but I do recognize that outside of the US it’s pretty amazing...

Inside the US here’s CFB and everything else. It will continue to grow in popularity.

Because there are 120+ teams no one team gets as much attention as an NFL team and the lack of a concentrated league effort to popularize players etc limits the amount of hype it can get... yet it’s still tremendously popular and supported in random places where pro teams could never exist. Tuscaloosa???

Anyway, I love CFB. That’s my point.

RaceBannon

Jake Olsen is driving the pace car at this weeks NASCAR race

Meek

RaceBannon said:

Jake Olsen is driving the pace car at this weeks NASCAR race

Larry Scott is thrilled that he is the catalyst to that.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

RaceBannon said:

Jake Olsen is driving the pace car at this weeks NASCAR race

Is it truck racing or regular racing? If it's truck racing then that's all kinds of FREE PUB for the conference!

TTJ

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Inside the US here’s CFB and everything else. It will continue to grow in popularity.

No. It won't.




And I will be as devastated as you.

RoadDawg55

TTJ said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Inside the US here’s CFB and everything else. It will continue to grow in popularity.

No. It won't.




And I will be as devastated as you.

Have you met a single person that has stopped watching football because of CTE? I don’t think I have. I bet the anthem protests got more people to stop watching than any CTE hot talk. I know that’s a NFL issue, but still.

Everyone pretends they care so much about the safety of the players, but they really don’t. Everyone still watches and mostly everyone still enjoys a big hit.

As I’ve said before. The kids who won’t be allowed to play football because mommy is scared for their brain were never the types to play big time college football anyways.

TTJ

Epidemiologically, we're only just now seeing the tip of the iceberg. Football as we know it won't exist in 20 years.

Baseman

Subscriptions have never been higher

haie

TTJ said:

Epidemiologically, we're only just now seeing the tip of the iceberg. Football as we know it won't exist in 20 years.

Better and safer equipment will be made to counter that. Players won’t be able to get away with no knee pads, tail pads, the helmets will be completely different. Won’t be able to wear receiver shoulder pads as a D end.

The money will do what it has to to keep the sport going.

CuntWaffle

TTJ said:

Epidemiologically, we're only just now seeing the tip of the iceberg. Football as we know it won't exist in 20 years.

LOL! Good luck the rest of the way!

PurpleJ

I think you soft fucking Americans should take off all the pads.

dnc

PurpleJ said:

I think you soft fucking Americans should take out all the pads.

TTJ

My. It seems I've struck a nerve.










Too soon?

PurpleJ

People said the same thing about boxing.

dnc

TTJ said:

My. It seems I've struck a nerve.










Too soon?

I think you're overstating the point but I do think CTE is a bigger looming problem than most here seem to admit. The government is going to get involved at some point and/or the lawsuits are going to be through the Ruth. There's a day of reckoning of some sort coming. I think football survives but it will be significantly altered.

Baseman

RoadDawg55 said:

TTJ said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Inside the US here’s CFB and everything else. It will continue to grow in popularity.

No. It won't.




And I will be as devastated as you.

Have you met a single person that has stopped watching football because of CTE? I don’t think I have. I bet the anthem protests got more people to stop watching than any CTE hot talk. I know that’s a NFL issue, but still.

Everyone pretends they care so much about the safety of the players, but they really don’t. Everyone still watches and mostly everyone still enjoys a big hit.

As I’ve said before. The kids who won’t be allowed to play football because mommy is scared for their brain were never the types to play big time college football anyways.

Pitchfork51

There's a big difference between an NFL dude who plays for 20 years total and 10 of them against professional and college monsters vs a kid who plays for a few years in high school vs 180 lbs scrubs.

The only people who should be worried are people with NFL talent.

And those are exactly the people who don't give a fuck.

UW_Doog_Bot

Pitchfork51 said:

There's a big difference between an NFL dude who plays for 20 years total and 10 of them against professional and college monsters vs a kid who plays for a few years in high school vs 180 lbs scrubs.

The only people who should be worried are people with NFL talent.

And those are exactly the people who don't give a fuck.

Don't give a fuck or are taking a risk based on the millions of dollars they make?

Nascar drivers die in horrible crashes but it's still going.

TTJ

Pitchfork51 said:

There's a big difference between an NFL dude who plays for 20 years total and 10 of them against professional and college monsters vs a kid who plays for a few years in high school vs 180 lbs scrubs.

The only people who should be worried are people with NFL talent.

And those are exactly the people who don't give a fuck.

You’ve got it ass backward. The real harm is happening from repetitive daily head trauma in practice. At all levels on down to Pop Warner.

JaWarrenJaHooker

dnc said:

TTJ said:

My. It seems I've struck a nerve.










Too soon?

I think you're overstating the point but I do think CTE is a bigger looming problem than most here seem to admit. The government is going to get involved at some point and/or the lawsuits are going to be through the Ruth. There's a day of reckoning of some sort coming. I think football survives but it will be significantly altered.

Ruth wasnt fat at all, just homely. When she had her hair up in a clip or band, with her school teacher glasses she was downright sunday-morrning sexy (you know, that morning in bed after a late-night of partying very hard; when you're at your horniest...and dirtiest;) sorry baabs, J, youve nevert been in bed with a woman on a sunday morning after being out till 5 am...trust me its killer smut and the BEST squirt of the week. See, your coke hangover hasn't set in yet. The rest of the day, after the dumpin, get her sore ass to the freezer for the Stoli, pickled asparagus for a triple bloody Mary as pain is on the horizon. Don't worry though, by next weekend you'll be as good as new