The NFL killed the CFB playoff head to head
SMU and Penn State averaged 6.4 million viewers while the Texans-Chiefs averaged 15.5 million viewers.
Clemson-Texas drew 8.6 million viewers while 15.4 million people watched Steelers-Ravens.
CFB did quite well when not against the NFL Indiana-Notre Dame (13.4 million) on Friday night and Tennessee-Ohio State (14.3 million) on Saturday night both achieved great numbers.
Replies to: The NFL killed the CFB playoff head to head
The games NFL went against were not on standard streaming options.
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Odd that Ohio State outdrew us
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Of course, look at who we played and then who O$U played.
Now wait for those ND and uGa ratings to come back...15 million+
Ohio is the 7th largest state
And OSU is the only game in town. Tennessee is larger than Indiana. If you just look at the local interest, the OSU gamd should have dwarfed the ND game.
Damn impressive it was as close as it was with IU being on the other side.
Tennessee and Ohio have other things going on, with several Big 4 teams. Bama on the other hand...
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It was a Saturday Night Game, and one of the Opponents wasn't Indiana
Not surprised at all.
Indeed. The SEC eyes vs the Indiana eyes. Also, a better theoretical game expected.
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Got it!
Whatever works for you.
Facts work for me, Mr. Woodstock. Facts. Ohio State had outdrawn ND almost 2-1 for years*
ND Football is the one team I've always been behind. I believe in the mission of the University and the team on the field. I have watched practically every televised game barring deployment since I was 6.
But the facts are, ND wasn't even top-10 draw this year in eyeballs as a program, and had only 1 regular season game in the Top-50 for viewers (ND-TAMU). Ohio State had 6.8M average viewers per game. Tennessee had 5.4M. ND didn't crack Top-10.
You could argue that this year was down because the schedule didn't pan out, and I would agree with you (ND usually top-5 this century). But Ohio State outdraws ND in viewers every year now with the BIG TV contracts.
Nielsen by Team
https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2024/nielsen-shares-college-football-conference-champs-and-overall-top10-based-on-season-viewership-rankings/
*Regular Season Games Only
Link: Top 50 Games
Just surprised
With the nationwide subway alumni network and literally fans spread out across the country I wouldn’t have expected that. Somehow SEC fans want to see Tennessee but Big Ten fans give a shit about Indiana. Odd.
Excellent!
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Don't think it helped the CFP were on TNT/TBS versus the traditional network channels.
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As I mentioned in a thread below, CFB took notice of ratings in 1st round.
First round adjustments will be made by the selection group in 2025 so this won't happen again, but remember, the NFL was already scheduled before the CFB playoffs came up with theirs. And to the fans who were cheering on a 12 team playoff but didn''t watch because they didn't like the matchups, this is what you all wanted so suck it up and stop bitching about matchups and ratings. Too bad so sorry Bama wasn't goood enough to make it in this year but still, a Bama / ND game would have brought in huge ratings.
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