2024 College Football TV Ratings

WhosYourDawggy said:
Updated this a little:

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Normally it doesn't matter, but you may recall that Bama v. Vandy got 3.3 million, but that isn't included because it was on the SECN. I am sure the B1G has a similar issue.

B1G fans, do you have backloaded games? I know we have tOSU v. PSU, and tOSU v. UM that will be big draws. But, SEC has LSU v. ATM, LSU v. Bama, UF v. UGA, UTjr v. UGA, UA v. AU, TEX v. ATM, LSU v. UF, UF v. FSU, so they will also have some large numbers in the back half of the season.

I am just really surprised at how much better the SEC viewership numbers are.
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How do you know that Bama/Vandy got 3.3? SECN doesn’t release numbers
 


This is a great number, especially for BTN, but in a vacuum, this is not a great number for the league. The last 5 games between MSU and Michigan have avg 5.35 million viewers. @WhosYourDawggy this is one of the main reasons the B1G is lagging way behind the SEC. Because of how both these teams were performing this got stuck on BTN, and it's not like there were great options for CBS and NBC on this day too. I'd be surprised if either Oregon/Illinois and PSU/Wisconsin did over 4 million this past weekend.
 


Some numbers for the top games. I was correct in regards to Illinois/Oregon and Wisconsin/PSU. 2.7 million for the CBS 3:30 window might be a record low for a conference game. Wow.
 
For some context for the 3:30 CBS window:

2021 TV ratings: 5.27 million viewers on avg.
2022 TV ratings: 5.77 million viewers on avg.
2023 TV ratings: 5.77 million viewers on avg.

So far for 2024: 3.54 million viewers on avg.

There have already been five games that haven't hit the 3.5 million viewership number in 2024. Which matches the number combined between 2021-2023. And only one of those involved an SEC game. The others were a B1G game last year, an Army/Air Force game, a Colorado/Air Force game and an Arizona/San Diego State game from 2022.

I'm not sure it'll get better for CBS either. Michigan/Oregon will get a nice number, but after that, there just aren't a lot of marquee matchups left. My guess is IU/OSU will be on Big Noon, as is OSU/Michigan, but after that it's pretty dire. The league needs Wisconsin, Michigan and Michigan State to be better.
 
ericd7633 said:
For some context for the 3:30 CBS window:

2021 TV ratings: 5.27 million viewers on avg.
2022 TV ratings: 5.77 million viewers on avg.
2023 TV ratings: 5.77 million viewers on avg.

So far for 2024: 3.54 million viewers on avg.

There have already been five games that haven't hit the 3.5 million viewership number in 2024. Which matches the number combined between 2021-2023. And only one of those involved an SEC game. The others were a B1G game last year, an Army/Air Force game, a Colorado/Air Force game and an Arizona/San Diego State game from 2022.

I'm not sure it'll get better for CBS either. Michigan/Oregon will get a nice number, but after that, there just aren't a lot of marquee matchups left. My guess is IU/OSU will be on Big Noon, as is OSU/Michigan, but after that it's pretty dire. The league needs Wisconsin, Michigan and Michigan State to be better.
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won't get better for CBS because what they had in their contract with the SEC won't ever happen again ... they were getting the top choice every week for their time slot and were paying PENNIES for it.
 
Thiefery said:
won't get better for CBS because what they had in their contract with the SEC won't ever happen again ... they were getting the top choice every week for their time slot and were paying PENNIES for it.
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Yeah, I don't think CBS was gonna compete with ABC/ESPN, but they had it made with the SEC game of the week.

I'll wait for the end of the season to do cumulative broadcast network viewership totals, but at this point I think ABC's got FOX, CBS, NBC beat when comparing Big 10 vs SEC.
 
Red_Alert said:
Yeah, I don't think CBS was gonna compete with ABC/ESPN, but they had it made with the SEC game of the week.

I'll wait for the end of the season to do cumulative broadcast network viewership totals, but at this point I think ABC's got FOX, CBS, NBC beat when comparing Big 10 vs SEC.
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Totals thus far:

ABC 7:30 time slot: 7.08 million viewers.
ABC 3:30 time slot: 5.55 million viewers.
FOX Noon time slot: 4.33 million viewers.
*ABC Noon time slot: 4.15 million viewers.
* Not exclusively SEC games
NBC 7:30 time slot: 3.69 million viewers.
CBS 3:30 time slot: 3.54 million viewers.

Fox's numbers will undoubtedly go up with PSU/OSU and OSU/Michigan, but I can see NBC and CBS's numbers actually decline from where they are now. At any rate, It'll be worth tracking. If one of them were to get IU/OSU that would be huge.
 
ericd7633 said:
Totals thus far:

ABC 7:30 time slot: 7.08 million viewers.
ABC 3:30 time slot: 5.55 million viewers.
FOX Noon time slot: 4.33 million viewers.
*ABC Noon time slot: 4.15 million viewers.
* Not exclusively SEC games
NBC 7:30 time slot: 3.69 million viewers.
CBS 3:30 time slot: 3.54 million viewers.

Fox's numbers will undoubtedly go up with PSU/OSU and OSU/Michigan, but I can see NBC and CBS's numbers actually decline from where they are now. At any rate, It'll be worth tracking. If one of them were to get IU/OSU that would be huge.
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Are those averages?

I'm talking cumulative totals.
 
Red_Alert said:
Are those averages?

I'm talking cumulative totals.
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Yeah, these are averages. Average or cumulative, ABC is going to finish way ahead. Even the 3:30 ABC slot has a good chance to beat Big Noon on Fox.
 
ericd7633 said:
Yeah, these are averages. Average or cumulative, ABC is going to finish way ahead. Even the 3:30 ABC slot has a good chance to beat Big Noon on Fox.
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Probably so, but I'll wait until after the regular season and CCG's.

I'm talking cumulative ABC vs combined FOX, NBC, CBS. (Broadcast only)

It will certainly make a difference in conference payouts (since they're fluid) where the Big 10 currently leads, but it's been projected that the SEC will eventually take the lead and their per school payouts will become higher than Big 10 per school payouts.
 
Red_Alert said:
Probably so, but I'll wait until after the regular season and CCG's.

I'm talking cumulative ABC vs combined FOX, NBC, CBS. (Broadcast only)

It will certainly make a difference in conference payouts (since they're fluid) where the Big 10 currently leads, but it's been projected that the SEC will eventually take the lead and their per school payouts will become higher than Big 10 per school payouts.
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Looks like for ABC it's a total of just over 151 million viewers through 9 weeks.

For Fox/CBS/NBC it's a little over 100 million total viewers.

It should be noted USC vs. Wisconsin wasn't Neilsen rated because of a dispute so that would probably add an additional 3.5-4 million viewers.

That'd be a lot of ground to make up a couple weeks after the midway point of the season. I don't expect OSU/Michigan to come close to what they got last year because Michigan is down. Still expecting 13 million-ish or so.
 
ericd7633 said:
Looks like for ABC it's a total of just over 151 million viewers through 9 weeks.

For Fox/CBS/NBC it's a little over 100 million total viewers.

It should be noted USC vs. Wisconsin wasn't Neilsen rated because of a dispute so that would probably add an additional 3.5-4 million viewers.

That'd be a lot of ground to make up a couple weeks after the midway point of the season. I don't expect OSU/Michigan to come close to what they got last year because Michigan is down. Still expecting 13 million-ish or so.
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I assume those are SEC and Big 10 games only?

i.e. Excluding Big 12, ACC, etc. in conference games.
 
Let's be real, the reason the SEC is outdrawing the Big Ten this year is because the SEC is a much deeper conference. For example, last week we had a 6-1 Illinois team playing a 7-0 Oregon team. The score was 35-3 at halftime and nobody was really surprised. And I'm not just bragging about Oregon. Ohio State beat Iowa 35-0, same thing. The only high level/quality game in the Big Ten this year has been Ohio State/Oregon. They'll get another one this week with Penn State/Ohio State but it's lacking overall.
 
Red_Alert said:
I assume those are SEC and Big 10 games only?

i.e. Excluding Big 12, ACC, etc. in conference games.
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This was just calculating the numbers for ABC at 12:00, 3:30 and 7:30. And for Fox at 12:00, CBS at 3:30 and NBC at 7:30.

There were a couple games on ABC at Noon that weren't SEC games. Like Navy/ND and I think one other ACC game. But including those games actually brings the overall avg down.
 
Thiefery said:
won't get better for CBS because what they had in their contract with the SEC won't ever happen again ... they were getting the top choice every week for their time slot and were paying PENNIES for it.
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Pigs get fat; hogs get slaughtered. CBS is getting slaughtered here.

I like that the SEC's pecking order for prime games is the 7:30pm ABC, 3:30 ABC, Noon ABC/ESPN. I have never understood the FOX/B1G love for the noon game.
 
ericd7633 said:
Totals thus far:

ABC 7:30 time slot: 7.08 million viewers.
ABC 3:30 time slot: 5.55 million viewers.
FOX Noon time slot: 4.33 million viewers.
*ABC Noon time slot: 4.15 million viewers.
* Not exclusively SEC games
NBC 7:30 time slot: 3.69 million viewers.
CBS 3:30 time slot: 3.54 million viewers.

Fox's numbers will undoubtedly go up with PSU/OSU and OSU/Michigan, but I can see NBC and CBS's numbers actually decline from where they are now. At any rate, It'll be worth tracking. If one of them were to get IU/OSU that would be huge.
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Yeah, but ABC/SEC still has:

UGA v UF
UGA v. OM
UGA v. UTjr
UA v. AU
LSU v. UA
TEX v. ATM
UF v. LSU*
UF v TEX
UF v FSU

Those 9 games will do 30 - 60 million.

UF still draws a lot of attention when playing good competition—all these games will be watched by 3-4 million.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
Yeah, but ABC/SEC still has:

UF v FSU

Those 9 games will do 30 - 60 million.

UF still draws a lot of attention when playing good competition—all these games will be watched by 3-4 million.
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