CFP ratings down 36%

Total dumbass move to put the games on New Year's Eve.
 
I didn't watch one second of either game
 
Last year were awesome matchups, but still dumb as hell for New Year's Eve.
 
Most bowl games have been non-competitive and have been pretty boring anyways.
 
Everyone does this comparison but what about comparing the ratings of the bowls to bowls. If the New Year's Day bowls didn't suffer why does it matter?
 
BioJacket06 said:
This. It has been the worst bowl season I can remember.
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I'm afraid that sEcSPN has screwed up college football forever. It was much more fun when individual bowls invited schools and polls created talk and banter. Now, we're being forced to accept 4 teams. Michigan St. and Oklahoma both wet the bed.
 
Stolen from Reddit (in regards to how uncompetitive the games have been)

In the 18 bowl games that have been played since December 28th, only 4 have been one-possession games when they ended.

There have been 37 bowls so far this year. Of those, less than a third (13) ended being one-score games. More than a third (16) ended being THREE-score games.

There have been 18 bowls (to date) matching P5 teams. Average margin of victory? 18.6 points.

There have been as one many score games (6) among the P5 bowl matchups as there have been FOUR-SCORE games.
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There have definitely been some fun ones (more so in the earlier portion of bowl season), but this year has been pretty lackluster overall. Hopefully we get some good match ups down the stretch.
 
GBurdell said:
I'm afraid that sEcSPN has screwed up college football forever. It was much more fun when individual bowls invited schools and polls created talk and banter. Now, we're being forced to accept 4 teams. Michigan St. and Oklahoma both wet the bed.
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I prefer the playoffs vs playing bowls and vote for the champion old style. I used to think 4 teams was not enough but I've changed my mind. With one conference getting shut out every year, it makes a CFP season a very special and rare season for any team, exactly like a Final Four season should be. I may not like it once the ACC gets f***ed every year they have a one-loss champ though. We've been lucky to have undefeated teams the past two years but that doesn't happen very often.
 
Got to watch the first half of one of them only. Would have watched all of both of them if they were on New Year's Day; instead I didn't watch anything on NYD.

Hopefully they can work something out with the Rose Bowl in the future.

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Yes I expected this coming based on my own habits of late. The problem is putting the bowls after the semifinals. In the past, everything was a build up to the big games. Even then the Orange Bowl suffered if the national championship had already been decided.

The Chick Filet Bowl used to be a good one. If they moved one semifinal to NYE night and the other to the following evening, bowl season would have kept intact.
 
ScionOfSouthland said:
ESPN only, back to back on NYE. What bone head decided that was a good idea? Blazer as Larry Culpepper?
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The problem is ESPN negiatiated with conference and bowl partners of the Rose and Sugar independently from the CFP broadcast.

ESPN can hopefully just move the CFP games to New Years and compete against themselves with the Rose/Sugar, when they're not in rotation for the CFP.

Rose ABC 4:00
CFP #1 ESPN 4:00

Sugar ESPN 8:30
CFP #2 ABC 8:30

Why wouldn't that work?
 
ElCidBUZZingFAN said:
The problem is ESPN negiatiated with conference and bowl partners of the Rose and Sugar independently from the CFP broadcast.

ESPN can hopefully just move the CFP games to New Years and compete against themselves with the Rose/Sugar, when they're not in rotation for the CFP.

Rose ABC 4:00
CFP #1 ESPN 4:00

Sugar ESPN 8:30
CFP #2 ABC 8:30

Why wouldn't that work?
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The rose bowl and sugar bowl partners, as well as the playoff partners are the same people. The rose bowl and sugar bowl would have no leverage if not for the fact that the Pac/B1G want to protect their "granddaddy" bowl and that the SEC/Big12 want to create their own grand mommy.

In fact, this year the dates gave the conferences an awesome out, since NYD fell on a Friday, ESPN strongly suggested that the playoffs games be played on Saturday Jan 2nd, but the conferences refused. I'm pretty sure ESPN saw the massive damage to the ratings by holding the games on NYE a mile away and would have done anything to have the games moved. It's the NCAA being stupid as it almost always is that screwed things up.
 
ElCidBUZZingFAN said:
The problem is ESPN negiatiated with conference and bowl partners of the Rose and Sugar independently from the CFP broadcast.

ESPN can hopefully just move the CFP games to New Years and compete against themselves with the Rose/Sugar, when they're not in rotation for the CFP.

Rose ABC 4:00
CFP #1 ESPN 4:00

Sugar ESPN 8:30
CFP #2 ABC 8:30

Why wouldn't that work?
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Why in the world would ESPN want to compete against themselves? That would result in even less total viewership for them than having the CFP games on NYE did.

rghoae said:
It's the NCAA being stupid as it almost always is that screwed things up.
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NCAA doesn't have any say in the bowl games, do they? I mean, I'm sure they have some influence just by knowing the people involved, but I don't think they are in any way the primary decision makers.
 
andrew said:
Why in the world would ESPN want to compete against themselves? That would result in even less total viewership for them than having the CFP games on NYE did.



NCAA doesn't have any say in the bowl games, do they? I mean, I'm sure they have some influence just by knowing the people involved, but I don't think they are in any way the primary decision makers.
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You are right, the NCAA doesn't have any say. It was a typo (partly because it's really the same people running the NCAA which is usually nothing more than a convenient scapegoat).
 
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