2013 New Orleans Bowl (ESPN) TV Ratings

[RaginCajun309]

RDave,

I want a playoff more than anything in college football, well except for an invite to a Big 5 conference, but the old argument of having players play 5 more games will always come up. It seems that a game from the schedule would need to be dropped and we all know what people on this forum think about losing a Saturday game! Don't see that happening. Home games in the first round may help quell this argument.

The other major flaw with a playoff with 24 teams is fan travel. Travel to a single bowl game, in mostly fun cities, is already an issue as evidenced by some of the low turnout in the bowls played thus far. Possibly five plane tickets, hotels, tickets, food, gas etc would likely price some fans out of the entire playoff experience.

As it stands there are 10 conferences, not including independents. Have all 10 conference champs in plus 2 at large, same format as you describe from there on out. Pay each conference a hefty sum of the profits so they get rid of their conference championship game and you're not really adding that many more games.

I love/hate this conversation!!!

[31Ragin97]

but factor in the higher attendance?? since so many people are at the game, of course less are watching on TV, whereas these other bowls have such low attendance. and therefore no excuse.....today's military bowl for example is in a stadium with only a capcity of 34,000, so far nearly a week into bowl season NOLA bowl still has the HIGHEST attendance by a mile!

[CajunRebel]

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[CajunAlum10]

I agree that fan travel would seem to be the major issue of all fans basically having to travel multiple times throughout a bowl playoff.. my question to that argument is... why not do like the FCS and have campus sites host? Higher seeds get the home games throughout the playoffs until the "Final Four" which could be at the major bowl sites. I understand that you'd still have some teams having to travel often if their lower seeded team made a run on the road but at least it's a more controlled situation and you understand what's at stake.

[ultracajun]

I'm not surprised. Other than the Nola bowl, I won't watch one second of this glut of bowls on national tv, except maybe the bcsncg.

The difference is, the Nola bowl had a great crowd and great atmosphere. It's a feather in our cap.

But it's still a "meaningless" game to the guy in Peoria, Illinois.

Whether or not the NCAA holds together, why not a 16 team BCS playoff, a separate 16 team "mid-major" playoff and do away with bowl games altogether? And of course, keep the playoff formats for FCS and Divs. II and III.

A mid major playoff would simply be div. 1-AA all over again. We should strive to be in the big dance.

[fanof71]

Here are the (overnight) numbers, I'm going to refrain comment at the moment, but I'll jump in later on my thoughts.

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2013...y-on-espn-abc/

That 1.4 rating (% of all ADS Households) viewing between 8:30p?? and 11:15am or so. That 1.4 is an average of all the quarter hour viewing between the beginning and end of the game. So, if the game is 3 and a half hours long, 14 quarter hours to be averaged. Some of you math heads may be able to figure out the high and low quarter hours to get that average.

A late in the year Thursday night game between Ga Tech and Clemson averaged the same HH Rating, and over 2 million HH's. Most of those 2 million came from the ATL area...home team and a school that's just 1.5 hours up I85. As I went through most of the weeks, games that performed at or near a 1.4 hh rating, delivered around or more that 2 million HH's viewing. Got to think big here guys, that 1.4 is a national overnight number.
Would love to see what the Overnights were in Nola. No overnight ratings available for the Lafayette area or BR.

The drop is as you say, last year was an early game against a more regional opponent in ECU, with a fan base in Raleigh and Charlotte markets. Both are top 25 markets, this year the interest was not as regional. ESPN probably knew that would happen, that's why they sent in A level announcers, hoping to squeeze a few tenths of a point out of that zulu coconut of a game. 2 million HH's ain't too shabby.

[31Ragin97]

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I agree!!!!!! Let them decide it on the field and in the classroom! Not decided by TV contracts or other bogus perceptions

[cjr3888]

One of the "random" bowls yesterday drew a 2.3
Big East basketball tournament final last year drew a 2.1

So even these smaller bowl games are getting better ratings than one of the biggest basketball conference tournament finals games.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Care to wonder what the rating is for ESPN when they run Sports Center, or any number of dead shows. If not a small bowl then what? Way too much is made of the WHO CARES about small bowls. Honestly I cannot recall any bowls that did not involve UL, the crystal ball winner, or a team I have some reason to pay attention to. I could not tell you who played in them, or who won them.

I recall things like USC being total jerks along with their _______ coach at the bowl in El Paso. I think Stanford beat some Big Ten team in the Rose. I mean come on folks do not fall into these desk jockeys view of there world. We went to the NOLA we concurred and it was GREAT. The whole bowl week was a walk in paradise.

For those who do not care to watch us, and the Lamers go do something else besides complaining about us, the Lamers and about thirty other bowls.

[ImperialCajun]

24 Teams.....All conference Champions and the remainder are at large bids. Use current bowl locations to host many of these games. Top 8 National Seeds would get byes. 9-24 would play each other, giving the higher seed a lower ranked team, 9 vs 24, 10 vs 23, 11 vs 21, etc etc. The higher ranked team would have the game played in a regional location (preferbaly a current bowl location) near their school. For instance if UL was playing a Big 10 team, it could be in Detroit, if they were playing a Big 12 team it could be in Houston or Dallas, etc. The Final Four games would be held at the current BCS locations on a rotating basis, Sugar, Rose, Orange and Fiesta, you could add possibly Dallas and another location and let them rotate the games periodically, with each loaction hosting the national championship game every 4th or 6 year, etc, but when they were not hosting that, they would have a high likelihood of hosting one of the semifinal games.

My suggestion......Thoughts.....

I have already stated this in the past. Just like in basketball but, 16 teams. The 24 takes too many weeks. Each conference gets there champ in, plus the best of the rest. They do not want this because it would put the Sunbelt on the same level as the others. Makes for a great recruiting statement. Ride pine and stay home at Ole Miss or come to UL and play in the national championship tournament. They are too chicken s--t to do this. The bowls can bid on the playoff games. Teams that do not make it in to the tournament can play in the bowls that are left. Seems simple and fair, so it will never happen!!!