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re: What would be an absolute ratings disaster of a national championship?
Posted on 12/23/25 at 10:23 pm to HailFreezusOver
Posted on 12/23/25 at 10:23 pm to HailFreezusOver
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best out Come
Ohio State (They have band Wagon fans across the nation Big 10)
vs
Ole Miss ( America's Underdog, lower seed, lost head coach SEC)
Big 10 vs SEC
Actually, Ohio State vs Alabama would probably be the best
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 10:24 pm to 19
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Nobody wants to watch fricking bama
So far, that is demonstrably an absurd position to take.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 10:28 pm to SidewalkTiger
I do wonder how an Oregon vs Bama game would rate in the semis
Posted on 12/23/25 at 10:37 pm to Vulcan Materials
Alabama vs uga
Posted on 12/23/25 at 10:42 pm to bamabonners
Top 4 per AI:
Alabama vs Ohio State
Alabama vs Georgia
Oregon vs Ohio State
Oregon vs Georgia
Alabama vs Ohio State
Alabama vs Georgia
Oregon vs Ohio State
Oregon vs Georgia
Posted on 12/23/25 at 10:48 pm to UAinSOUTHAL
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Wrong. ESPN would kill for Bama to make it. It is well known the Tide bring in the most viewers on average to CFB. You have all the Fans that love the Tide and then the whole rest of the country that would tune in to see if we lose.
You are delusional and trying to imagine some national fascination with Alabama football.
There really isn't a lot of disparity. The only reasons why Bama was number 1 this year is because they played so many ranked teams. Also, if they would've opened up against an FCS team and so many people hadn't tuned in to watch them get their arse beat by Florida State, the numbers would've been different.
Also, fans tuning in to watch Alabama in this year's CFP will be watching a plucky underdog that barely made the playoffs. You may or may not be stuck in the last decade.
2025
Alabama — 7.01M
Georgia — 6.17M
Texas — 5.78M
Ohio State — 5.68M
Oklahoma — 4.91M
2024
Georgia — 5.97M
Alabama — 5.44M
Ohio State — 5.16M
Texas — 4.63M
Michigan — 4.01M
2023
Ohio State — 5.55M
Alabama — 5.08M
Michigan — 4.78M
Colorado — 4.50M
Georgia — 3.95M
2022
Ohio State — 5.80M
Alabama — 5.11M
Michigan — 4.37M
Tennessee — 4.13M
Georgia — 3.50M
2021
Ohio State — 5.22M
Michigan — 4.74M
Alabama — 4.64M
Penn State — 3.87M
Georgia — 3.61M
2015-2019
Ohio State (5.19M)
Alabama (5.09M)
Michigan (4.18M)
Notre Dame (3.61M)
LSU (3.22M)
[embed]https://medium.com/run-it-back-with-zach/which-college-football-programs-bring-in-the-most-tv-viewers-efc03c689e50[/embed]
Posted on 12/23/25 at 10:52 pm to tide06
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Half the country tunes in to watch us win.
The other half tunes in hoping we’ll lose.
On average, out of every 50 people in America, 49 of them were not watching Alabama play football on Saturdays this season.
Some of you frickers really need to get out of your state more often and realize that everywhere is not Alabama
This post was edited on 12/23/25 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 12/23/25 at 11:01 pm to Vulcan Materials
Meh. It'll be on ESPN. We don't get that on my tv.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 11:01 pm to Vulcan Materials
Texas Tech vs Ole Miss would be the worst. Most of that probably falling on Texas Tech rather than Ole Miss. Ole Miss is just in the same bracket with Ohio St, Georgia and Miami.
If it was just any 2 remaining playoff teams it would be Texas Tech vs Indiana, but they are on the same side.
If it was just any 2 remaining playoff teams it would be Texas Tech vs Indiana, but they are on the same side.
This post was edited on 12/23/25 at 11:02 pm
Posted on 12/23/25 at 11:04 pm to Vulcan Materials
The third game between UGA and Alabama would draw a huge audience wanting to see if Alabama could crack -3 yards rushing.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 11:31 pm to 3down10
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Million viewers on average. #1 Alabama 8.49 #2 Texas 7.55 #3 Georgia 7.48 #4 Ohio St 6.57 #5 Oklahoma 6.47 #6 LSU 6.42 #7 Tennessee 6.21 #8 Auburn 5.255 #9 Michigan 5.08 #10 Texas A&M 4.99
Interesting that a state like Alabama with its minimum population (relatively speaking) can split a state and both be in the top 10 nationally. Just really goes to show how much (or used to) college football means to the state.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 11:43 pm to Vulcan Materials
18.3 million people watched the Big 10 championship game. Last season it was 10.5 million. It was the first time since 2019 that the game had topped 12 million viewers. Another 10-12 million watched the Indiana thing on 60 Minutes.
Indiana has a chance to be one of those transcendent teams if they win the national championship this season.
Indiana has a chance to be one of those transcendent teams if they win the national championship this season.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 12:10 am to Vulcan Materials
I think this is missing the point a bit, at least in my case.
I can only speak for myself, but when I faded away from the NFL in the early 90's, I can remember just not caring anymore. If my team wasn't involved in the playoffs or the Super Bowl, I no longer watched.
Whereas before, I would always watch out of love of the game. Even playoff games between two teams I hated. But over time, that changed. It happened slowly, then all at once. And then one day i realized it was a Monday morning and I was checking the score to see who won a game on Sunday. For MY team. I had not even watched the game
By that time, I was only watching college football.
But now, I can draw parallels to that and how I feel about college football today. I watch every UF game. If we ever made the playoffs (haha yes I know) I would watch. But I feel myself starting to...not care again. Just as it happened for me with the NFL.
Am I alone? Maybe so. But I havent watched a playoff game yet this year. And who knows, maybe I'll watch the championship game, If I'm not busy doing something else. But it won't depend on WHO is in the game.
I can only speak for myself, but when I faded away from the NFL in the early 90's, I can remember just not caring anymore. If my team wasn't involved in the playoffs or the Super Bowl, I no longer watched.
Whereas before, I would always watch out of love of the game. Even playoff games between two teams I hated. But over time, that changed. It happened slowly, then all at once. And then one day i realized it was a Monday morning and I was checking the score to see who won a game on Sunday. For MY team. I had not even watched the game
By that time, I was only watching college football.
But now, I can draw parallels to that and how I feel about college football today. I watch every UF game. If we ever made the playoffs (haha yes I know) I would watch. But I feel myself starting to...not care again. Just as it happened for me with the NFL.
Am I alone? Maybe so. But I havent watched a playoff game yet this year. And who knows, maybe I'll watch the championship game, If I'm not busy doing something else. But it won't depend on WHO is in the game.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 12:31 am to Slums_Alum
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I am skeptical of the NFL numbers at times
10m+ smart tvs in bars, restaurants, hotels, and gyms set to NFL games every week.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 12:44 am to Violent Hip Swivel
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On average, out of every 50 people in America, 49 of them were not watching Alabama play football on Saturdays this season.
Are we on a message board specifically related to college football?
Are we in a thread about college football ratings?
If you aren’t interested in discussing either maybe you should see yourself out?
If not, maybe check into the ratings before going on an angry rant.
Want to guess who the #1 team in CFB is as far as TV ratings is?
On3 - TV ratings by team 2025
Want to guess who had the most weeks on top of the CFB ratings with 4?
Want to guess how many weeks they had a top 5 rating? 8
Sportsmediawatch - CFB ratings by week
Posted on 12/24/25 at 1:18 am to threedog79
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Interesting that a state like Alabama with its minimum population (relatively speaking) can split a state and both be in the top 10 nationally. Just really goes to show how much (or used to) college football means to the state.
Well that is definitely true to some degree and has been shown in the past in terms of % of people in Alabama who watch the games.
However, the biggest reasons why Alabama is #1 in the metric is because Alabama played the 4th toughest schedule in football this year, the toughest schedule by some metrics. That means Alabama played in many top tier games landing them on ABC almost every week.
In fact, Alabama only had 2 games all year long that weren't cast on ABC. ULM and the FCS game. Which was nice, because they are all free to watch.
On top of that, all the games were fairly close and interesting, or Alabama losing which people love.
ABC > CBS. I hear people complain about missing CBS, but 3 ABC games a day is why the SEC dominated that list. We did not have games cast on ABC at all until a few years ago. Only CBS and ESPN.
This post was edited on 12/24/25 at 1:19 am
Posted on 12/24/25 at 1:52 am to Pimphand
It’s ratings not stadium attendance. While poor at selling out gsmes Miami carries a very strong tv following
Posted on 12/24/25 at 1:54 am to bisonduck
I’d say tech or Indy would be the worst but who knows. if tech can get all the atm/horn viewers that’d be strong viewership
This post was edited on 12/24/25 at 1:56 am
Posted on 12/24/25 at 2:06 am to HailFreezusOver
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Ole Miss ( America's Underdog, lower seed, lost head coach SEC)
Posted on 12/24/25 at 2:12 am to Vulcan Materials
Indiana winning the title would be the equivalent of 1984 BYU winning today just on name alone. Indiana would be a worthy champion because of who they beat en route to the title. They would be the first ever 16-0 national champion.
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