re: Teams with the best television ratings . . . Bama at 1

Alabama 2.60
Florida 1.92
LSU 1.81
Georgia 1.76
Texas A&M 1.28
South Carolina 1.27
Arkansas 0.99
Tennessee 0.78
Auburn 0.75
Missouri 0.56
Kentucky 0.54
Mississippi 0.43
Mississippi State 0.36
Vanderbilt 0.25

**** insert lots of schools here ****

Duke 0.02
Idaho 0.01



For all those Duke to the SEC folks

my point was us comparing ourselves to USCe is ridiculous because that isn't the same type of program. get mad but you know if a school is actually gonna be doing any form of comparable analysis UGA wouldn't start of with USCe. higher population, more tradition, more riding our games later in the season, you could even say network bias. it's just an apples oranges deal.

but yea, i'm not gonna let an opportunity to make fun of yall go to waste. i've missed most of a 17 page thread of pissing contests so this is my way of getting in on it. big whoop, wanna fight about it?

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How does Southern Miss have better TV ratings than OM and State? Something is flawed here

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there are quite a few flaws honestly

1) the averages are only of games televised. An SEC team that would mean all but 1. For USM that may mean 1 game. Many schools averages are inflated by their weaker games not being on tv.

2) Most games are regional, not national. A national rating of 2 <> a regional rating of 2. This is incredibly tricky when you split the nation 3 ways with 3 regional games (like is normally done by ABC). All 3 games end up with high ratings but they do not equal a national broadcast on CBS that might have lower ratings in California dragging down it's rating.

3) Cable. It does not appear that any games on cable that were not broadcast on the ESPN family (not including LHN) are included. That takes all the low rated games out of the averages.

Because of these, the entire exercise is retarded honestly and you can't readily compare anyone except schools in the same conference.

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there are quite a few flaws honestly

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Yes, there are flaws. But based on the limited information given from the site, the person who put it together did pretty well.

America's Team

:rivalry:

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Georgia 1.76
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South Carolina 1.27

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LET'S GO!

Population of GA, 9.8 Million
Population of SC, 4.6 Million
Difference of 5.2 Million, or 47%.

8 Games UGA, 9 games for USC.were on that spreadsheet.

UGA's Ratings
2.0
2.7
2.2
2.8
1.5
.5
1.2
3.3 (SECCG)
avg of 2.025

USC's Ratings
1.5
2.4
1.2
2.2
3.3
3.1
2.3
1.6
1.5
avg of 2.122

So why is it that the flagship university from Georgia with a state population twice as large as South Carolina's can't average as high a rating as USC? THREE TIMES the amount of people tuned in for our western rival game with Ark than watched UGA play Auburn.

UGA has also had higher enrollment numbers than USC for decades. So I know they got more fans in theory, right?

Good job trying to think of a way to make the results subjective, but I think it makes more sense to take the results on what they are and just stick to the ratings or number of viewers.

With that being said, USC's avg rating is higher than UGA's even though their state is twice as populated and they have 10's of thousands of more alum.

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So why is it that the flagship university from Georgia with a state population twice as large as South Carolina's can't average as high a rating as USC? THREE TIMES the amount of people tuned in for our western rival game with Ark than watched UGA play Auburn.

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Because there isn't anything else better to do in that shite hole state.

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Arkansas 0.99

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Worst season in a long time

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Florida State 0.89

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still better than these clowns

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Virginia Tech 0.96 Oklahoma State 0.95 Kansas State 0.95

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and even these guys.