OUCH - Championship game ratings are out

[FLTech]

Championship game ratings are out
SEC: 15.2 million viewers
Big Ten: 11.7 million
Big 12: 8.0 million
Pac-12: 4.2 million
AAC: 3.4 million
ACC: 2.6 million

SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 11.29-12.5.2021 | Showbuzz Daily

showbuzzdaily.com

 

[jgtengineer]

Expected., Pitt vs Wake with nothing on the line. This is why they need to autobid champions into the playoffs.

IF we had a an 8 team playoffs where the winner of each power5 gets in no matter what. It automatically creates a reason for people to watch that game.

 

[a5ehren]

Who cares as long as the checks cash.

 

[ChicagobasedJacket]

Who cares as long as the checks cash.

I am with you. If ESPN wasn’t willing to give us more money after the ACC made the playoffs each season before this one, then they are getting what they have bargained for. Sucks for us as fans of an ACC team

 

[TooTall]

Considering the bottom 3 had no playoff potential teams, it seems about right.

 

[WreckinGT]

Considering the bottom 3 had no playoff potential teams, it seems about right.

The AAC did have a playoff team, otherwise it likely would have been behind the ACC.

 

[jojatk]

Championship game ratings are out
SEC: 15.2 million viewers
Big Ten: 11.7 million
Big 12: 8.0 million
Pac-12: 4.2 million
AAC: 3.4 million
ACC: 2.6 million

SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 11.29-12.5.2021 | Showbuzz Daily

showbuzzdaily.com

I’m actually just a little surprised the AAC game didn’t do better. There was a lot riding on that game for the playoffs with potentially the first ever G5 team punching their ticket or several other teams just waiting in the wings if Cincy lost.

 

[bobongo]

Who cares as long as the checks cash.

When the next contract is negotiated, the checks won't be as much because of the poor ratings.

 

[DvilleJacket]

Nothing to be excited about 2 teams not even in the top ten

 

[SOWEGA Jacket]

This is why expansion will keep going. It’s all about eyeballs which bring advertising money. The ACC Champ game didn’t matter and the winner doesn’t matter. I’ve posted before that conference championships mean nothing these days. All that matters are the playoffs. Wait till those numbers come out. Then don’t be shocked when within a decade we have a 20 plus team playoff. And when the bowl game numbers are abysmal it will hasten expansion even faster. I can’t wait for a December of playoff games.

 

[YoungSting]

I truly do not think people who had no ACC or school ties would have watched the Pitt wake game even if it had playoff implications.

That’s like watching some bottom tier basketball conference with an automatic bid. Sure, they get in, but does anybody care how?

And then they will get the 12 seed, and people will say that those ratings will be good. But that would only be because they are playing the top seed. And it would only be good for the first quarter until it’s a blood bath

 

[JasonJ]

Cinci gave the AAC a bump but nobody wants to see Pitt vs Wake.

 

[Oakland]

I really respect Wake Forest, but it is a small private school. Pitt could have been a contender, but blew it. Notre Dame may have gotten a bid if they were in a conference. If the ACC really wanted to make money with football they'd go regional with the two divisions. Except for Miami and Florida State name two ACC teams that are absolute bitter rivals. Tech really needs home and away games with Florida State and NCST yearly.

 

[iceeater1969]

I really respect Wake Forest, but it is a small private school. Pitt could have been a contender, but blew it. Notre Dame may have gotten a bid if they were in a conference. If the ACC really wanted to make money with football they'd go regional with the two divisions. Except for Miami and Florida State name two ACC teams that are absolute bitter rivals. Tech really needs home and away games with Florida State and NCST yearly.

I hope we dont become rivals w Duke.

With Texas and OU going to SEC , the bottom schools Vanderbilt Missouri Missouri could be replaced w more powerful schools FSU MIA.

 

[Mattmc10]

I’m actually just a little surprised the AAC game didn’t do better. There was a lot riding on that game for the playoffs with potentially the first ever G5 team punching their ticket or several other teams just waiting in the wings if Cincy lost.

It was on at the same time as SEC. If this would have been in any other time slot I think it would have done a lot better.

 

[Fatmike91]

Wake has played Pitt exactly one prior time. There is no natural rivalry. Think about how weird that is for a conference championship game.

/

 

[YoungSting]

One more thing to think about. With our champion more thank likely being the lowest, do we really want them getting killed by the number one seed? Would that make the ACC look better because “we had a team in the playoffs”? It’s probably better to have nobody talk about you than to only have bad things to say

 

[stech81]

It’s probably better to have nobody talk about you than to only have bad things to say

Ask the Pac 10

 

[augustabuzz]

One more thing to think about. With our champion more thank likely being the lowest, do we really want them getting killed by the number one seed? Would that make the ACC look better because “we had a team in the playoffs”? It’s probably better to have nobody talk about you than to only have bad things to say

Depends on what they do with MSU. Also, we need a winning bowl record.

 

[YoungSting]

Ask the Pac 10

A conference that has been carried by Oregon? And then what happens when that team gets blown out, and your left wondering “that’s the best in the conference? How bad must everybody else be?”