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re: Georgia should pull a Notre Dame
Posted on 11/12/26 at 5:02 am to PrattvilleTiger
Posted on 11/12/26 at 5:02 am to PrattvilleTiger
You list places where casual football fans don’t exist in numbers.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 5:27 am to IT_Dawg
Alabama could be independent but the Bama admin doesn't have the deep thinking level to comprehend it.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 5:40 am to geauxbrown
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It’s amazing how many times a thread has zero to do with LSU, yet someone always brings them up.
Well, you should stop some of your own from actually talking about how you'd be better off as an independent if the SEC kicked you to the curb. That certainly was a topic a few weeks back.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 6:35 am to Shocco
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Alabama could be independent but the Bama admin doesn't have the deep thinking level to comprehend it.
Bama 8 years ago could have pulled it off. Today? It’s a reach. They have a much better dispersement of casual to serious fans than anyone else in the SEC but they are no longer growing that base.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 9:33 am to 3down10
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ABC also has streaming on ESPN that I'm assuming wasn't counted.
Nielsen does have a deal to track live streaming viewership for ESPN and ABC broadcasts so all of those are counted in the Neilson number for AL vs LSU.
NBC has Adobe Analytics exclusively tracking their live sports outside of the NFL and MLB playoff games (I assume NFL and MLB have a separate contract with Nielsen that requires that). Sounds like they got a better deal from Adobe than Nielsen offered.
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People are comparing the wrong games though. It's not about your most viewed games, which brings in viewership of other teams. It's about your viewership numbers when you aren't playing anyone.
I get that. Just that the original claim that UA vs LSU had more viewers doesn't appear to be correct.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 11:20 am to BamaBravesPackers
quote:Looking at the last 5 (just a random number so I wasn't only looking at this season) complete seasons and 2026 so far, here are the averages of regular season night games per team:
Wait, what??? OSU consistently gets noon games. The UT/UTx game was noon and the Red River Shootout was 2:30pm. And Bama’s only prime time night game against P4 competition was….wait for it…against UGA . LSU, UT, Kentucky, FSU, A&M were all 2:30 or 11am games.
You’re doing this wrong. UGA has had more primetime night games then Bama.
Ohio State: 3
UGA: 3.3
Bama: 4.3
Texas: 4.8
I was wrong about Ohio State for this particular stat, but Bama and Texas both average 1+ more night games per season than UGA does. That can impact overall viewership by itself, due to fewer games being played at the same time.
For this season, UGA has had 2 night games so far (Bama and Ole Miss) and Bama has also had 2 (UGA and South Carolina).
quote:Blowouts at halftime per team in 2026, where I'm defining a blowout as a game that is not close (1-2 score differential), potentially keeping viewers away for the 2nd half:
Bama blew out KY, MSU, SC, etc. UGA was up 1 score to Vandy at half and lost to AU. There are games like Ole Miss that you dominated, but let’s not pretend you’ve been up 4 scores at halftime of every game. I’ll give you OU, FL, and Ole Miss were less competitive than expected, though.
UGA: 6 (Ten St, W KY, Ark, OK, FL, OM)
Bama: 2 (ECU, SC)
Texas: 5 (Tx St, UTSA, OSU, OM, MST)
Ohio State: 5 (Ball St, TX, Kent St, Illinois, Maryland)
UGA has had 1 more blowout game compared to TX and OSU, and that's being generous since OSU was up convincingly against TX until they came back, and that game had massive viewership overall due to the hype and the comeback.
So, I stand by what I said: UGA consistently gets fewer night games compared to some of the highest-viewed teams, and they have blown out more teams early on this season than the others. That can certainly affect viewership.
This post was edited on 11/12/26 at 12:13 pm
Posted on 11/12/26 at 11:45 am to Smokeyone
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UGA doesn’t have a national following.
Wat? You one of them retards?
Posted on 11/12/26 at 11:59 am to IT_Dawg
Congrats to Georgia for winning the next championship this season. Drinkwitz hasn't been able to beat Georgia.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 1:52 pm to IT_Dawg
you guys might have a good team but you're not Bama Posted on 11/12/26 at 2:13 pm to PrattvilleTiger
quote:He liked Montogmery more than Tuscaloosa?
Yeah, I knew Alabama's student body is primarily from other states. I guy I used to work with (he's about 27, 28 years old), he went to UA and he said in his apartment complex, he was the only person from the state of Alabama. Everyone else was from California, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Maryland etc. He's diehard Alabama fan of course, but he didn't like that aspect of UA. He eventually left and finished his degree at AUM.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 4:50 pm to RT1941
He was from Millbrook originally. He has family in the area.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:13 pm to IT_Dawg
I tend to see an alternate color version of your logo all over Wisconsin…
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:38 pm to IT_Dawg
Sorry dude. UGA doesn’t have that kind of following to warrant its own stuff.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 8:19 pm to IT_Dawg
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Leave the SEC in football, just play your 6 games a year against the SEC “rivals,”and sign a lucrative contract as a solo school that still plays elite competition
How in the world are you gonna get a SEC school or "elite" schools to schedule a home and home with you?
You're home schedule is gonna be garbage...similar to
ND's OOC opponents and no national audience is gonna watch those games.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 8:27 pm to Shocco
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Alabama could be independent
No they couldn't.
Once again,who are they gonna play? Nobody from the BIG or SEC is gonna add them to their schedule and on the REMOTE chance they do they have to have a return game and obviously only home games will part of any TV deal .
Posted on 11/12/26 at 8:46 pm to Smokeyone
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Notre Dame could do it, originally because of the catholic followers and national exposure.
They have been the school with the most exposure in college football
Much of their ratings are like Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh. People from BOTH sides tune in.
Catholics tune in, along with non Catholics
Irish fans tune in, along with fans who hate the Irish
Probably the #1 college football team when it comes to print, radio, and TV exposure
Probably the #1 college football team when it comes to songs, movies, and books about them
Back if the day they probably had more exposure on Armed Forces Network for folks stationed around the world than several teams below them combined.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 9:06 pm to RD Dawg
Yes they could. Notre Dame gets big games all the time and Bama is a huge tv rankings pull.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 9:29 pm to IT_Dawg
Posted on 11/12/26 at 9:35 pm to PrattvilleTiger
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Granted, this happened to me in Manhattan, Canada and California. I
Why the frick would anyone go to Manhatten, Canada, or California? I went to Manhatten for an MD-11 repair... couldn't wait to leave.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 9:59 pm to IT_Dawg
It’ll be what streaming did to cable, which in the end has basically become a more expensive cable.
Everyone goes solo then you have to pay for everyone’s stream then teams start partnering to offer bundle deals and then we formalize them with conferences and on we got for infinite regression.
Everyone goes solo then you have to pay for everyone’s stream then teams start partnering to offer bundle deals and then we formalize them with conferences and on we got for infinite regression.
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