First TV ratings for the College World Series are out

I don't know how anyone could watch and enjoy a Women's college basketball game... That's just tough to wrap my mind around.

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What was the LSU game?

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Innings 1-3,,,,,, a bunch
Innings 4-9,,,,,, probly not as much..

So what did that Cincinnati Purdue game translate into actual viewers for the game? Was it on the BTN or on a channel the rest of the country actually watches?

You never got approval from your dad when you were little, did you?

Yes, the average person doesn't watch college baseball. Why would they? There are MLB games on if you want to watch some baseball.

College football even gets lower ratings than NFL games when they are both played at the same time.

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Yes, the average person doesn't watch college baseball. Why would they? There are MLB games on if you want to watch some baseball. College football even gets lower ratings than NFL games when they are both played at the same time.

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March Madness beats the NBA so this comparison doesn't work

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So you are saying 2 non football schools with limited CWS history drew a 1 - 2 rating?

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1.07, 1.0, 1.17

That can be good or bad depending on your standards

By comparison the Women's World Cup game the other night did a 3

Team USA was involved in that, but even the non-team USA matches are hovering around a 0.8

Link for your data or bullshite.

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goldennugget

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Basically 12.2x as many people watched the first round NCAA tournament game between Cincinnati and Purdue than the Virginia-Arkansas College World Series game last Saturday 2.74x as many people watched the Women's Final Four Game between UConn and Maryland than Virginia-Arkansas 5.46x as many people watched a first round NCAA tourney game between UC Irvine and Louisville that tipped off on TNT around 4:30pm on a Friday Afternoon than the Virginia-Arkansas game Looks like college baseball has a long way to go. But it disproves the South Carolina fan theory that "baseball is second only to football season" when first round NCAA games in the middle of a weekday afternoon and Women's Final Four games are spanking the college baseball premiere event in television viewership.

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NCAA Tournament is most heavily bet on (legally) sporting event on the Earth. Literally. They use the terms BILLIONS. As far as unofficial office pools, estimates are that it's far, far greater than we can peg an official dollar amount on.

To compare that to the NCAA Baseball Tournament, which has only recently gotten the type of exposure and coverage from ESPN that other sports have, is really kinda silly.

The guys in Vegas talk about betting odds as they relate to public interest and mention that the first really big NCAA Hoops action they took was in 1979 for Michigan State/Indiana State with Magic/Bird.

That was 36 years ago. So with that much time and focus dedicated to the sport versus what's been given to collegiate baseball...are you really expecting something different?

This is nothing more than statistics which present an opportunity for your confirmation bias. But I can assure you where this sport has been given a priority-LSU, MSU, South Carolina and the SEC as a whole-its been proven that interest-and profit-will flow into and out of it, respectively.