From the very article you quoted.

1. Alabama vs. Texas A&M
2. Alabama vs. Florida (SEC title game)
3. Alabama vs. LSU
4. Oklahoma vs. Texas
5. Houston vs. Temple (AAC title game)
6. Alabama vs. Auburn
7. Baylor vs. TCU
8. Arkansas vs. Texas A&M
9. Houston vs. Navy
10. Alabama vs. Tennessee
11. Ole Miss vs. Texas A&M
12. Michigan vs. Ohio State
13. LSU vs. Florida
14. Michigan State vs. Iowa (Big Ten title game)
15. Oklahoma vs. Baylor
16. Texas A&M vs. Arizona State
17. Oklahoma State vs. Baylor
18. Texas vs. Notre Dame
19. Oklahoma State vs. Texas
20. Texas vs. TCU

Analyzing this further, removing the championship games from the group, you get the following teams in the 17 other top rated games.

Alabama - 4
Texas A&M - 4
Texas - 4
Baylor - 3
LSU - 2
Oklahoma - 2
Oklahoma State - 2
TCU - 2
Arkansas - 1
Florida - 1
Houston - 1
Michigan - 1
Navy - 1
Ohio State - 1
Ole Miss - 1
Tennessee - 1

Going even further in depth, let's examine games on this list that took place on the same date (or even at the same time):

September 5th, 2015:

16 - Texas A&M/Arizona State vs. 18 - Texas/Notre Dame (same timeslot)

September 26th, 2015:

8-Arkansas/Texas A&M vs. 19-Oklahoma State/Texas

October 3rd, 2015: 20-Texas/TCU outperformed every other game that week in the Houston area.

October 10th, 2015: 4-Oklahoma/Texas outperformed every other game that week in the Houston area. (Texas A&M had a bye that week)

October 17th, 2015: 1-Alabama/Texas A&M vs. 13-LSU/Florida

October 24th, 2015: 10-Alabama/Tennessee vs. 11-Texas A&M/Ole Miss

November 7th, 2015: 3-Alabama/LSU outperformed every other game in the Houston area

November 14th, 2015: 15-Oklahoma/Baylor outperformed every other game in the Houston area

November 21st, 2015: 17-Oklahoma State/Baylor outperformed every other game in the Houston area

November 27-28, 2015: 6-Alabama/Auburn vs. 7-Baylor/TCU (Friday) vs. 9-Houston/Navy (Friday) vs. 12-Michigan/Ohio State

It goes without saying that Alabama/Florida was the highest rated game during championship weekend.

So what does that mean?

In every instance in which one of the top 20 games in the Houston area was an SEC game, that game outperformed every other conference in the Houston area that weekend. The most telling? A&M outperforming Texas in Houston in the same timeslot

So, if you remove all the games that were outmatched during that weekend, the CORRECT top games in the Houston area would look like this:

1 - Alabama/Texas A&M
2 - Alabama/Florida
3 - Alabama/LSU
4 - Oklahoma/Texas
5 - Alabama/Auburn
6 - Arkansas/Texas A&M
7 - Alabama/Tennessee
8 - Oklahoma/Baylor
9 - Texas A&M/Arizona State
10 - Oklahoma State/Baylor
11 - Texas/TCU

One final point: SEC Network won't release ratings until year 3 (2016 season). As a result, we don't know how those games performed in the Houston market.

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Posted by texashorn

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Posted on 7/21/16 at 7:04 pm to CGSC Lobotomy

So, I see Col. Aggie Lobotomy has worn out another government-provided Blackberry keyboard with his furious typing, while on government time, while in the comforts of a government office, to restate what the foremost expert on Houston sports television wrote:

There is parity right now between the SEC and Big 12 in Houston television ratings.

He also leaves this out for his drive-by aggy fanboys:

quote:
Also of interest is the breakdown based on individual schools that participated in the 83 games with at least a 2.0 rating. That indicates where the viewing loyalties of Houston viewers reside.

Here are the leaders, including both cable and over the air games: Alabama 10, Texas 9, LSU 8, Notre Dame 8, Baylor 7, Houston 7, Oklahoma 7, TCU 6, Oklahoma State 5, Ole Miss 5, Auburn 4, Michigan 4, Michigan State 4, Ohio State 4, Texas A&M 4, Texas Tech 4, USC 4. That gives us six Big 12 schools, five SEC schools, three from the Big Ten and one each from the American (UH), Pac-12 and independent Notre Dame.

So... aggy is hiding behind the skirt of the SEC to claim their sliver of parity. The BIG BAD SEC and all those aggy eyeballs translates to parity with a very down Longhorn team and what aggy considers the worst group of football schools ever assembled.