Notre Dame vs Alabama TV Ratings

[b381l]

I think this game will be the most watched college football game ever. I'm not sure about final 4 basketball ratings, but the ND-Bama game will be the most watched college game of any sport ever.

Also, I think the group of BCS games this year excluding the above, will be the least watched games as a group since the BCS began.
Fla St - No Illinois.......(who cares)
Florida - Louisville.......(almost nobody cares)
Stanford - Wisconsin.......(Wisconsin is w/o a coach and Stanford couldn't fill their own stadium in the PAC 12 championship)
Oregon - Kansas State.......(marginal interest from 2 states with small populations, with K State having almost no national recognition)

[I Bleed Garnet]

2006 Rose Bowl got a 21.7. (SoCal-Texas)
The highest in a while. Will have a mountain to climb.

Rose Bowl will get high ratings, because it always does.

But after last years record low for most, this year will be the same.

[ccured]

Biggest television draw ever

[I Bleed Garnet]

Just revisiting this the game pulled a 15.7.
Not the highest ever.

Of course a blow out, but I don't blame that, I should have realized, this game is on ESPN.
The 2 games above it (USC-Texas and FSU-Oklahoma) were on Network TV (ABC)

[usc90grad]

^ Would have been a 5.7 without Miss Alabama.

[b381l]

Originally Posted by I Bleed Garnet

Just revisiting this the game pulled a 15.7.
Not the highest ever.

Of course a blow out, but I don't blame that, I should have realized, this game is on ESPN.
The 2 games above it (USC-Texas and FSU-Oklahoma) were on Network TV (ABC)

Yes ESPN will never draw the same as network TV....but clearly the early blowout lost a lot of viewers.

[b381l]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2432077.html

The first half had a 20.4...... much better.

[I Bleed Garnet]

Originally Posted by b381l

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2432077.html

The first half had a 20.4...... much better.

That's percentage not rating.

Unless I'm confusing those numbers.

[Dantes]

Originally Posted by I Bleed Garnet

Just revisiting this the game pulled a 15.7.
Not the highest ever.

Of course a blow out, but I don't blame that, I should have realized, this game is on ESPN.
The 2 games above it (USC-Texas and FSU-Oklahoma) were on Network TV (ABC)

The Auburn-Oregon game got a 17.6, I do believe, I know it was a 17.

[MWard]

Originally Posted by I Bleed Garnet

Just revisiting this the game pulled a 15.7.
Not the highest ever.

Of course a blow out, but I don't blame that, I should have realized, this game is on ESPN.
The 2 games above it (USC-Texas and FSU-Oklahoma) were on Network TV (ABC)

That's definitely a big part of the drop off.

[LegalCock]

Don't they average the beginning and ending audiences or something? I bet the audience was halved by the start of the 4th. Hell I didn't even make it that long.

[M.C.]

i turned it too

[I Bleed Garnet]

Okay idk wtf the ratings really are.

Just saw another article saying this game got a 17.5 Nielsen Rating

[Dantes]

Originally Posted by I Bleed Garnet

Okay idk wtf the ratings really are.

Just saw another article saying this game got a 17.5 Nielsen Rating

Yeah, Wikipedia says this one was a 17.5, while Auburn Oregon was 17.8

[I Bleed Garnet]

Originally Posted by Dantes

Yeah, Wikipedia says this one was a 17.5, while Auburn Oregon was 17.8

Yea. The article I first found that had it as 15.7 said that was 3rd all time.