robinreed wrote:I for one did not bother to watch the college football championship last night. There was a good British adventure movie on GET TV which I watched instead. However in this age of decreasing sports TV viewership an important piece of information and a viewership record was set. This quote has been going around the internet and twitter this morning:
"Buckeyes' win drew a higher overnight than every MLB game since 2004, every NBA game since 1998 and every CBB game since at least '97."
If true then the P5 has once again struck gold.
NJRedman wrote:It's not strange at all. If anyone has been paying attention the last 40 years they would know that Football rules the sports landscape in the US. NFL is #1 and CFB is #2.
billyjack wrote:I caught a couple of minutes in the 4th. I don't dislike either team, so that was cool. However, the telecast reminded me of why i dislike ESPN. Oregon had a key holding call on a kickoff return that they took to the 40 (down either 28-20 or 35-20... either way, it was a critica penalty)... the hold pulled the ball back to their own 10. ESPN decided to not show us a replay of the hold.
Soon after, a Buckeye slammed Mariota to the turf late, causing him to sit out a critical play or two with a sore shoulder... no flag for a late hit, and ESPN (Herbstreit?) defended the hit. Then a Duck got called for unsportsmanlike conduct, putting the ball at around the Oregon 5... again, ESPN decided to not show us the penalty.
Generally, too, ESPN was anointing OSU the champs, even though 5 minutes still remained in a 2 TD game, vs a team with a lighting fast offense... no game strategy discussion, just blabbing on about nothing... oh yeah, ESPN worked in tweets from LeBron James, like regular updates... unbelievable... i was wondering where Tebow was...
Penalties, commercials, watching the gameclock tick down from 40 to 10 seconds as players look over at the sidelines, each play, listening to the low hum of Chris Fowler and Herbstreit below the crowd noise... i was quickly reminded of how little college football keeps my attention, and how much i dislike ESPN... between plays, I found myself switching over to Rick Steves Europe on PBS, who was in Paris, and which was more appealing than watching 11 Ducks looking at their coaches for 30 seconds...
After the game, i saw around 45 seconds of Stephen Smith yapping like a nut about the OSU absolutely dominating, and criticizing Mariota... ok... game was 21-20 late 3rd, and Mariota threw for 2 TD's and 300+ yards and no interceptions til the final pass as time ran out. Ohio State was the better team and controlled the line of scrimmage during the time i watched, but again, it was a 1 pt game in the late 3rd. Anyway, Smith was ranting like a crazy man, and Skip Bayless blabbed on about something or other. ESPN is awful.
Mercifully, i tuned into FS1, and watched a sensible, pretty insightful discussion of the game with 5 guys in the studio... Leinhart, Brady Quinn, and their regular crew. Thankfully the BE is on the big boy sports network.
College football is extremely popular, i get that... it just isn't for me anymore. I'm kind of a fan without a team these days. I grew up following Notre Dame (for 30+ years), but since they bailed on us for the ACC, I've lost interest in them. I guess Navy and Army and Southern Cal and UCLA (USC for the Song Girls) keep my interest a bit.
What teams do the rest of you guys follow? A Marquette fan can't root for Wisconsin, right? I can't root for BC. Creighton fans can't root for the Huskers, right?
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