Ratings collapse
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
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Less than a mill less than the UW Texas game. The Michigan bama game is the outlier in this situation. Click bait
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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.
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clay being intellectually dishonest? No way
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I think it was DEI. People are saying that.
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Rose Bowl was down too
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cuogs will cry foul
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Quarterfinals should be home games for the higher seed
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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.
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That just stacks the deck even more heavily in favor of the committee’s seeding judgments.
This whole bill of goods was sold to us (by E$PN) as a way to “decide it on the field.”
There is no way to unfuck this ridiculous playoff sham. Either it all depends on the committee (and the E$PN hype train) or you will eventually play late January games in half-empty stadiums. It’s all intractable bullshit.
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I’m intractable that you’re intractable.
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It's just based on who has the money, as can be easily shown
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Cotton Bowl set a record. Friday night and Ohio State and Texas
The lesson the CFP will learn is that you need Bama and Ohio State which is what the SEC and B1G want you to think. 2 league invitational
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Once the novelty wears off, the Bammer poors won’t show up en masse at Madison and Pasadena on consecutive weeks. In January. On short notice.
Who are we kidding here?
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I think this is true for every fan base
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Its made for TV anyway. You can give away tickets to the studio audience like they do in Hollywood for game shows
The Cotton Bowl record was 20 million viewers
Don't shoot me I'm just the guy who has been against every "improvement" since 1996. The only thing I like is legally paying players illegally
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NFL ratings are down 2.2 serpent. While they're different games with different problems, both are trending down in terms of quality.
NBA ratings are down by over 40% just since 2012. The NBA All-Star game drew yuge numbers in the 80s and 90s. 20 or 30 million.
Now it's on TBS or something and it's a joke, just like the Pro Bowel. They draw about five million.
I wonder how football will be in 10 years. Either way, it'll be interesting. I think the NFL will keep losing viewers with the woke shit and the ridiculous rules.
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The transition to streaming is impacting all TV viewers. So is the transition to the latest iteration of playoffs. The schedule is weird. I had no clue the ND-Penn State game was on a Thursday until the day before. Now, the title game is on a Monday — late in January — and it seems anticlimactic.
It's affecting the NFL is similar ways. Spreading out the first round of the playoffs over three days, with six games, is a newish thing.
And sometimes you just want to catch a rerun of McMillan and Wife.
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Cut out city stadiums and build an NFL studio where each game is played with piped in crowd noise for the "home team." That'd be something.
