re: 1-7 scheduling model gaining momentum per SI’s Ross Dellinger

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To be fair not many people outside of Alabama or Tennessee are interested in that game at all

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Alabama/Tennessee hits cable season-high, tops week eight

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Last Saturday’s Tennessee-Alabama college football game averaged a 2.6 rating and 4.68 million viewers on ESPN, marking the highest rated and most-watched game of the season on cable. The Crimson Tide’s win also ranked as the top game of the weekend, the first time since Week 2 in 2018 that a cable game topped the charts.*

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And yet, people watch it. More than people watch most other Alabama games, and almost as many as a lot of Alabama games on braodcast (so it isn't an "Alabama thing" only).

1. Alabama/Auburn (10.4M) (CBS)
2. Alabama/A&M (8.3M) (CBS)
3. Alabama/Florida (7.9M) (CBS)
4. Alabama/Miami (5.7M) (ABC)
5. Alabama/Arkansas (5.5M) (CBS)
6. Alabama/LSU (5.1M) (ESPN)
7. Alabama/Ole Miss (4.8M) (CBS)
8. Alabama/Tennessee (4.7M) (ESPN)

1. LSU/Alabama (5.0M) (ESPN)
2.Tennessee/Alabama (4.7M) (ESPN)
3. Arkansas/Georgia (3.85M) (ESPN)
4. Auburn/LSU (3.79M) (ESPN)
5. Alabama/Miss St (3.5M) (ESPN)
6. Texas/Arkansas (3.4M) (ESPN)
7. Tennessee/Florida (3.2M) (ESPN)
8. Louisville/Ole Miss (3.1M) (ESPN)
9. Kentucky/Florida (3.1M) (ESPN)
10. Florida/LSU (2.9M) (ESPN)

It was the 2nd highest rated game on cable last season