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re: Highest Rated National Title Games for Television
Posted on 1/9/19 at 12:13 pm to Bankshot
Posted on 1/9/19 at 12:13 pm to Bankshot
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I'm not shocked that the Miami-Nebraska 2001 game is just about the lowest. Everyone knew Nebraska was going to get absolutely thrashed.
Yes. It also hurts that Nebraska probably has the smallest "largest in-state television market" of any of the state's that have produced a National Championship participant.
Omaha is just the #74 largest market. So even if it had a massive rating, it would hardly move the needle nationally.
That's why the Alabama-Georgia game in 2017 actually pulled a decent rating considered it was two SEC teams. When a Top 10 market like Atlanta has a participant, it goes a long way to producing a bigger rating.
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Posted on 1/9/19 at 12:19 pm to BHMKyle
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Yes. It also hurts that Nebraska probably has the smallest "largest in-state television market" of any of the state's that have produced a National Championship participant.
Good point, but Nebraska was a national power at the time. I just remember that game having absolutely no appeal to me and pretty much everyone I knew since Nebraska was exposed against Colorado and clearly didn't deserve to be in the game. I remember checking the score right before the half and it was 28-0 or something.
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