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re: College Football's Biggest TV Draws
Posted on 9/24/21 at 1:17 pm to lsufball19
Posted on 9/24/21 at 1:17 pm to lsufball19
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The game has had high rating like that because it's in November and generally a lot is riding on the outcome. I imagine last year's game didn't have a great rating because there was nothing riding on the game. Basically, when two good teams play, people watch. LSU/Alabama was a nationally relevant game almost every year from 2013-2020.
All of this is true, however evidence suggests the high ratings for both Alabama-LSU and the Iron Bowl have more to do with Alabama than the opponent.
Like I showed earlier, LSU's Top 6 highest rated regular season games since 2013 have all been against Alabama. Auburn's Top 7 rated regular season games since 2013 have all come against Alabama. Meanwhile, Alabama's Top 6 rated games have come against 4 different opponents.
Obviously the common denominator is Alabama.
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Posted on 9/24/21 at 2:53 pm to BHMKyle
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LSU's Top 6 highest rated regular season games since 2013 have all been against Alabama.
And what were the two teams ranked during those 6 games? That's pretty relevant. Also relevant is how much the ratings dropped when both weren't top ranked teams. Also relevant is what were Alabama's ratings prior to Saban's run. Like I said, ratings are very much predicated upon how good the two teams playing are. Notre Dame is probably the only program that can still draw pretty good ratings even when they suck or are mediocre.
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Alabama's Top 6 rated games have come against 4 different opponents.
I'm going to guess they were all top 10 matchups too: LSU, Auburn, Georgia, and A&M
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Obviously the common denominator is Alabama.
The common denominator is Alabama is basically always a top 5 team. When they play another team in the top 5 or 10, the game will get high ratings. When they play someone like Miss State, they don't because there is no interest in a matchup like that. And when they werent a perennial top 5 team, they weren't dominating the TV ratings
This post was edited on 9/24/21 at 2:57 pm
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