Top 50 TV Viewers Reg Season Conf Games for 2025 CFB Season

These chickens will come home to roost. I made a big post about this a few years ago, and I still maintain the premises: as we transition into a streaming era driven by high caliber match-ups and football-crazed fanbases, the SEC will pull ahead of the B1G. Sankey shot us in the foot a bit with the last tv contract, but I think he and Slive do deserve credit (despite what you hooligans think) for keeping the SEC competitive with a giant, national B1G, while still maintaining some sense of cultural/regional footprint that pins a bunch of football-crazed fanbases against each other.

Eventually it will all work out when CFB becomes the AFC(SEC) vs. the NFC (B1G)

Simplifying this word salad and adding a few more games to the batch to analyze...

Top 50 regular games of last season:

28- SEC conference games
11- Big 10 conference games
1- ACC conference game
10- non-conference matchups (8 of 10 involved an SEC team

Of the top 50 regular season games, here are how many participated in by school:

9- Alabama
8- Oklahoma
7- Georgia, LSU
5- Ohio St, Ole Miss, Texas
4- Michigan, Oregon, Texas A&M
3- Auburn, Florida, Miami, Missouri, Penn St, Tennessee
2- Florida St, Indiana, Notre Dame, S Carolina, USC, Vandy
1- Arkansas, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Miss St, N Carolina, Nebraska, TCU, Virginia Tech, Washington

All 16 SEC schools played in a Top 50 regular season game and the SEC made up 64% of all teams playing in a Top 50 game... Big 10 24%... ACC 9%... Notre Dame 2%... Big 12 1%

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8- Oklahoma

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This is why I wanted LSU to have a permanent game with OU, since we didn’t get Ala/Aub/Fla.

More Eyes on the final game.

But the sec opted differently.

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7- Georgia, LSU

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That’s surprising given how crap LSU’s season was last year.

I just think people in the Big 10 have normal lives. They put college football in perspective. People in the south do care more. They live for college football, whether that's good or bad. Just my perspective.