re: Least watched NC ever

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NBA Finals ratings plummet to 5.6M, lowest on record World Series ratings at record low for second straight game NFL WildCard Weekend Lowest Total Viewership Since 2014 Wow its almost like ratings dropped across the board

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Yes, covid turned all major sports seasons into a joke this year. The fact is, most sports fans did not take the 2020 seasons seriously.

Most already knew this, but lack of viewership proves it.

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Glorious


Wow its almost like ratings dropped across the board

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True. One minor note for the NCAA football championship is that it is exclusively on ESPN and no longer available over broadcast air. Even with cable proliferation, this does cost millions of viewers from those who don't have access or who have simply cut the cable cord.

I think you can certainly place a good bit of the blame on COVID-19 and the fact that fewer people are watching sports on television for whatever reason.

But the fact that BOTH Semifinal games drew bigger audiences this year despite neither being particularly competitive shows that viewers are also suffering from Bama fatigue or at least the fact that the same few teams seem to always be playing and there just isn't any intrigue anymore.

In the previous six years of the Playoff, the Championship Game has always attracted more viewers than the average of the two semifinal games.... by between 4.2 and 9.1 million viewers each and every time. The average has been +6.5 million viewers. But this year, for the first time ever, not only the average but both Semifinal individually attracted more viewers than the Championship.... you can't blame that on COVID.