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NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
Not sure it's an accurate comparison.
Add the total viewers for the first round and then check against the minor bowls. Better yet, the Sweet 16 is a better comparison of rating against the minor bowls.
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
These are such stupid comparisons. The bowls usually have no competition or very little and occur when a lot of people are off work. How many 1st round games are on at one time? 3, 4 or 5? A lot of them occur during the middle of the work day.
When did we stop teaching critical thinking skills?
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
(03-26-2015 05:14 PM)blunderbuss Wrote: When did we stop teaching critical thinking skills?
A better question might be if anyone has ever taught it.
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
One reason why I don't think Bowls are going anywhere or the CFP will expand any time soon.
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
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NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
(03-26-2015 05:14 PM)blunderbuss Wrote: These are such stupid comparisons. The bowls usually have no competition or very little and occur when a lot of people are off work. How many 1st round games are on at one time? 3, 4 or 5? A lot of them occur during the middle of the work day.
When did we stop teaching critical thinking skills?
Completely agree.
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
Odd- I don't remember my entire workplace talking about their picks for the Camelia bowl...
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
(03-27-2015 08:41 AM)Frog in the Kitchen Sink Wrote: Odd- I don't remember my entire workplace talking about their picks for the Camelia bowl...
Wait....
What's the Camelia Bowl?
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
(03-26-2015 05:01 PM)MWC Tex Wrote: Not sure it's an accurate comparison.
Add the total viewers for the first round and then check against the minor bowls. Better yet, the Sweet 16 is a better comparison of rating against the minor bowls.
For reference I put together these numbers a few years ago. This is from the 2012-13 season where I had the full ratings for all games. Here is how the NCAA tournament stacked up
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Round Games Viewers average By weekend
First Four 4 4,400,000 1,100,000 4,400,000
1st round 32 65,360,000 2,042,500 -
2nd round 16 81,200,000 5,075,000 146,560,000
sweet 16 8 47,100,000 5,887,500 -
Elite Eight 4 43,900,000 10,975,000 91,000,000
Final Four 2 31,600,000 15,800,000 -
National Championship 1 23,400,000 23,400,000 55,000,000
In total the NCAA tournament drew 297 million viewers over all 67 games that year. That same year the entire football bowl season drew 193 million fans. Ratings for both are up this year over 2013, so we shall see how it holds up. But there wasn't a big enough jump in the CFP viewership, to make up 100 million viewers.
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
(03-27-2015 08:41 AM)Frog in the Kitchen Sink Wrote: Odd- I don't remember my entire workplace talking about their picks for the Camelia bowl...
I never even heard of it !
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
(03-26-2015 04:21 PM)quo vadis Wrote: Even the lowly Camelia Bowl drew 1 million viewers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/sports...ports&_r=0
This is not good news for the small conference schools that get automatic bids. Sort of defeats the argument that people watch the basketball tournament games because of the cinderella type teams.
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
(03-26-2015 07:01 PM)msm96wolf Wrote: One reason why I don't think Bowls are going anywhere or the CFP will expand any time soon.
The next CFP would do very well to pull completely out of the bowls, let traditional bowl tie-ins rule the day as the "first round" and then rank the top four for a playoff at independent sites. A "Plus 4", if you will.
If I were in control, I'd convert the current CFP to this as well. Just have a "Plus 2" championship game, though. And give the Orange Bowl the first pick of At-large teams so as to fairly pair up the ACC champion with someone at that caliber from the remaining P5 leagues.
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
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RE: NY Times: Meaningless Bowl games trump many first-round NCAA Tournament TV Ratings
What? The Super Bowl gets better ratings than an IUPUI vs. UMKC basketball game in November?
That's proof football is more popular.
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