2024 College Football TV Ratings

ericd7633 said:
3.3 is actually a pretty good number though. Almost doubled what Miami vs. Cal did at the same time slot the week prior.

Also, other numbers will come out shorty. My guess is AZ/BYU and ISU/WVU are the next two on the list. Maybe Clemson/Wake, but I'd lean the other two.
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Kind of surprised not to see BYU/AZ make this list. But there comp was the RRSO and PSU/USC so that makes more sense.
 
ralphiewvu said:
There is only one B12 game on there and it was a stand alone game with right now the most marketable team in the conference. YIKES
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Yeah, say what you will about Deion, but he does have love/hate eyeballs on Colorado.
They're consistently Top 5 in viewership. A slight drop-off in Week 7 to 6th.
I did tune in, but the game started at 10:15 pm (ET)/9:15 pm (CT) so I guess the majority of peeps east of the Rockies were drunk, banging Susy Rottencrotch, or passed out.

Week 0/1: NDSU/Colorado 4.76 million on NBC (5th)
Week 2: Colorado/Nebraska 5.67 million on ESPN (2nd)
Week 3: Colorado/Colorado St 3.25 million on CBS (5th)
Week 4: Baylor/Colorado 3.64 million on FOX (5th)
Week 5: Colorado/UCF 4.17 million on FOX (3rd)
Week 6: Bye
Week 7: Kansas St/Colorado 3.3 million on ESPN (6th)
 
ericd7633 said:
It is interesting because Fox pushed for the P12 schools to be added, but they were the ones affected the most by it. Contractually, they aren't allowed to broadcast a 9:00 a.m. local start time. So anytime OSU/UM/PSU/Nebraska goes out west, it's automatically going on NBC/CBS(unless it's an 11:00 p.m. ET start like UCLA/Oregon was). This all that added inventory will only go to CBS/NBC. UCLA and Washington being down this season also haven't helped, but banking on UCLA isn't a great strategy.

According to everything I've read, Fox gets the first 3 selections. Apparently they picked week 14(OSU/UM), week 2(Texas/UM), and then traded the 3rd selection to NBC, which was this past week of Oregon/OSU, but that made sense since they couldn't select it anyway. PSU/OSU and UM/OSU are going to do huge numbers, but I would agree, they now have gotten the short end of it. It also hurts that when SC came East to play UM, that was a CBS selection. So Fox got stuck with Marshall/OSU. It could be worse as OSU is obviously a huge draw, but not what SC/UM is going to pull.

Through 7 weeks this is the avg viewing audience:

Fox Big Noon - 4.27 million
NBC - 4.08 million
CBS - 3.82 million

But if memory serves, I think Fox is paying an extra $200 million per year in the deal to have these first couple selections. Certainly isn't worth an extra $200 million for an additional 200K viewers IMO.
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Thanks.
I knew there was a pecking order, but didn't know the details. :beer2:
 
ralphiewvu said:
Kind of surprised not to see BYU/AZ make this list. But there comp was the RRSO and PSU/USC so that makes more sense.
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Yeah, that's basically 12 million viewers tuned into other games. Just not much of an audience left after that. My guess is those B12 games probably are at like 1.8 or 1.9 million viewers on avg. Being on Fox will definitely help, it also hurts that UW/Iowa was the lead in. It also hurts that Fox has designed their whole marketing strategy around Big Noon(which does work for that), but really kills the other timeslots. Even though BNK was at BYU this past weekend. 3:30/4:00 is also the most competitive time slot. B1G on CBS, SEC on ABC, ND on NBC every other week. Even 3:30 on ESPN can pull over a million depending on the game.
 
Red_Alert said:
Yeah, say what you will about Deion, but he does have love/hate eyeballs on Colorado.
They're consistently Top 5 in viewership. A slight drop-off in Week 7 to 6th.
I did tune in, but the game started at 10:15 pm (ET)/9:15 pm (CT) so I guess the majority of peeps east of the Rockies were drunk, banging Susy Rottencrotch, or passed out.

Week 0/1: NDSU/Colorado 4.76 million on NBC (5th)
Week 2: Colorado/Nebraska 5.67 million on ESPN (2nd)
Week 3: Colorado/Colorado St 3.25 million on CBS (5th)
Week 4: Baylor/Colorado 3.64 million on FOX (5th)
Week 5: Colorado/UCF 4.17 million on FOX (3rd)
Week 6: Bye
Week 7: Kansas St/Colorado 3.3 million on ESPN (6th)
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Yep CU is by far the best B12 team in terms of viewership. I would say they might even finish in the top 20 by the end of the year. Especially if they remain decent.
 
ericd7633 said:
Yep CU is by far the best B12 team in terms of viewership. I would say they might even finish in the top 20 by the end of the year. Especially if they remain decent.
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That Kansas St/Colorado game didn't have a lot of viewership competition, but that time-slot.

It's literally what killed the PAC tv contract negotiations. You gotta have all those eyeballs east of the Rockies.
Heck, even east of the Great Plains for that matter. There's not a lot of eyeballs in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
Michigan/Texas was just over 9 million. No chance in hell Texas and A&M get remotely close to UM/OSU. Michigan has a better chance of having one of their QB's win the Heisman this year than Texas/AM reaching 19+ million viewers.
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Except no one gives a fuck about Michigan this year.
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
Michigan/Texas was just over 9 million. No chance in hell Texas and A&M get remotely close to UM/OSU. Michigan has a better chance of having one of their QB's win the Heisman this year than Texas/AM reaching 19+ million viewers.
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fordman84 said:
Except no one gives a fuck about Michigan this year.
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ummmm, but viewership says otherwise.

Week 6

Michigan @ Washington: 4.04 million
Missouri @ Texas A7M: 3.27 million

Week 5

Minnesota @ Michigan: 3.6 million
Arkansas @ Texas A&M: 1.8 million

Week 4

USC @ Michigan: 6.32 million
Bowling Green @ Texas A&M: No Data. (SEC Network+ or ESPN+) LOL
 
Red_Alert said:
ummmm, but viewership says otherwise.

Week 6

Michigan @ Washington: 4.04 million
Missouri @ Texas A7M: 3.27 million

Week 5

Minnesota @ Michigan: 3.6 million
Arkansas @ Texas A&M: 1.8 million

Week 4

USC @ Michigan: 6.32 million
Bowling Green @ Texas A&M: No Data. (SEC Network+ or ESPN+) LOL
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Michigan generates national interest.

Texas a&m generates regional interest.
 
fordman84 said:
Except no one gives a fuck about Michigan this year.
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Michigan could go 0-12 and they'd still be one of the most watched teams in CFB. That's what a national brand does in CFB. If they watch them this year -- it may take some fans away as the QB play is so bad.
 
Red_Alert said:
ummmm, but viewership says otherwise.

Week 6

Michigan @ Washington: 4.04 million
Missouri @ Texas A7M: 3.27 million

Week 5

Minnesota @ Michigan: 3.6 million
Arkansas @ Texas A&M: 1.8 million

Week 4

USC @ Michigan: 6.32 million
Bowling Green @ Texas A&M: No Data. (SEC Network+ or ESPN+) LOL
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Michigan has no problem attracting viewers. Michigan has problems throwing a forward pass.
 
Red_Alert said:
ummmm, but viewership says otherwise.

Week 6

Michigan @ Washington: 4.04 million
Missouri @ Texas A7M: 3.27 million

Week 5

Minnesota @ Michigan: 3.6 million
Arkansas @ Texas A&M: 1.8 million

Week 4

USC @ Michigan: 6.32 million
Bowling Green @ Texas A&M: No Data. (SEC Network+ or ESPN+) LOL
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I see a lot of UW, Minny, and USC fans.
 
Through 7 weeks:

2024 B1G on CBS: 3.80 million avg viewers.

2023 SEC on CBS: 5.61 million avg viewers.

CBS is reportedly paying $350 million a year for the B1G.
CBS reportedly paid $55 million a year for the SEC.

Not looking like a great business decision.

Gap will only widen. Last year Bama vs. Tenn did 8.1 million. Michigan vs. Illinois might get half that. Good chance by the end of the year, the SEC games will outpace the B1G games by about 3 million viewers, if not more.
 
ericd7633 said:
Through 7 weeks:

2024 B1G on CBS: 3.80 million avg viewers.

2023 SEC on CBS: 5.61 million avg viewers.

CBS is reportedly paying $350 million a year for the B1G.
CBS reportedly paid $55 million a year for the SEC.

Not looking like a great business decision.

Gap will only widen. Last year Bama vs. Tenn did 8.1 million. Michigan vs. Illinois might get half that. Good chance by the end of the year, the SEC games will outpace the B1G games by about 3 million viewers, if not more.
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TBF CBS usually isn’t getting the top B1G game each week where as they did usually get the SEC best game.
 
ericd7633 said:
Through 7 weeks:

2024 B1G on CBS: 3.80 million avg viewers.

2023 SEC on CBS: 5.61 million avg viewers.

CBS is reportedly paying $350 million a year for the B1G.
CBS reportedly paid $55 million a year for the SEC.

Not looking like a great business decision.

Gap will only widen. Last year Bama vs. Tenn did 8.1 million. Michigan vs. Illinois might get half that. Good chance by the end of the year, the SEC games will outpace the B1G games by about 3 million viewers, if not more.
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To air sec games this year, CBS would have needed to pay north of 300 million.

Last years number is irrelevant
 
ericd7633 said:
Through 7 weeks:

2024 B1G on CBS: 3.80 million avg viewers.

2023 SEC on CBS: 5.61 million avg viewers.

CBS is reportedly paying $350 million a year for the B1G.
CBS reportedly paid $55 million a year for the SEC.

Not looking like a great business decision.

Gap will only widen. Last year Bama vs. Tenn did 8.1 million. Michigan vs. Illinois might get half that. Good chance by the end of the year, the SEC games will outpace the B1G games by about 3 million viewers, if not more.
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CBS is competing with FOX and NBC.

It wasn't that way in the SEC.
 
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