CFP ratings down 36%

RamblinWreck92

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Coincides with two teams from Midwest and two teams from the south. NO teams from a huge population center. Put ND, USC/UCLA, Texas, and Ohio St/PennSt in there and the ratings would skyrocket no matter when it was played.
I disagree - no one was gonna tune in at 4pm on NY Eve to watch Penn St, Ohio St or USC/UCLA either.

Just a dumbass move by ESPN. öööö 'em - I avoided both games too.
 

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New Year's Day is ingrained in the public mindset as a day to watch football. New Year's Eve is a time for parties, dinner dates, and family gatherings. Play the first semi-final at 1 after the Rose Parade, then the Rose Bowl when it is not a playoff game, then the 2nd semi- final.
 

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New Year's Day is ingrained in the public mindset as a day to watch football. New Year's Eve is a time for parties, dinner dates, and family gatherings. Play the first semi-final at 1 after the Rose Parade, then the Rose Bowl when it is not a playoff game, then the 2nd semi- final.

When has the CFP ever used logic?
 

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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.
at least 2 of the 4 teams "chosen" arguably should have not been in the playoff.
 

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New Year's Day is ingrained in the public mindset as a day to watch football. New Year's Eve is a time for parties, dinner dates, and family gatherings. Play the first semi-final at 1 after the Rose Parade, then the Rose Bowl when it is not a playoff game, then the 2nd semi- final.
So where does the sugar bowl land? Jan 2nd or nye? Either way, I think this is the best solution I've heard
 

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I blame it on fallout 4.


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The Rose Bowl wouldn't move their parade. Seriously.
The Rose Bowl parade should be on New Year's Day; but who cares. The Parade really has nothing to do with the game at this point anyway, it has become a separate entity.

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.
Should have called the conferences bluff. If P5 didn't want the pay day and declined the invite, then maybe some of the other conferences would be willing to play. What they ended up doing was idiotic. Playing the playoff first is the equivalent of having the under card after the main event. I didn't watch the Rose or Sugar bowl; both because the games were boring and they didn't matter at that point.
 

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stolen from reddit (in regards to how uncompetitive the games have been)

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 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.
12.3>13.0?
 

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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 want to make sure I understand this: You want the CFB playoffs to start with 4 teams instead of more so it can be special like the final four... which takes place after the 60 other starting teams have been eliminated?
 

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I'm fine with a 4 team playoff.

Putting the games on ESPN is a ratings killer. But they are ratings bonanza for ESPN, so they don't care.

GT carries 85% of my bowl watching interest, so ratings from me were down significantly.
 

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So where does the sugar bowl land? Jan 2nd or nye? Either way, I think this is the best solution I've heard
This year the Sugar, Fiesta and Peach would have been scheduled differently if you had played the Orange Bowl Friday before the Rose Bowl and the Cotton Bowl after the Rose. You could have gone with the Peach on New Year's Eve, late afternoon or evening, then perhaps the Fiesta late afternoon today and the Sugar tonight. Or, you could have let one of those bowls be as late as Monday night.
 

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Dumbass move to put them on NYE, if they wanted to preserve the rose bowl on Jan 1 then the cfp should have been played jan 2, Saturday night.

Instead the year ends with the Motel 6, tax slayer, and Alamo bowls in the better time slots. Woo!
 

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Dumbass move to put them on NYE, if they wanted to preserve the rose bowl on Jan 1 then the cfp should have been played jan 2, Saturday night.

Instead the year ends with the Motel 6, tax slayer, and Alamo bowls in the better time slots. Woo!
Which were great football games.
Perhaps the best games of the bowl season and the Cactus Bowl
 

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At least last night's game between TCU and Oregon was interesting. Otherwise this has been by far the worst bowl season that I remember
 
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