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Strange but impressive college football note.

Postby robinreed » Tue Jan 13, 2015 2:38 pm

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.
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Re: Strange but impressive college football note.

Postby HoosierPal » Tue Jan 13, 2015 2:46 pm

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.



I was glued to the game. I heard on the radio today that the game had the highest viewer ship of any ESPN event, ever. Elliott was a beast! And winning the National Championship with the third string quarterback, what a story. If the BCS was still running the show, it would have had Alabama v Florida State in the game.
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Re: Strange but impressive college football note.

Postby DudeAnon » Tue Jan 13, 2015 3:32 pm

I watched it, seemed like I would be missing out if I didn't.

That being said, it was about 1/10th as exciting as a CBB game. I just don't get it. Just didn't seem to have the same spirit CBB does. But I am pretty biased as a lifelong X fan.
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Re: Strange but impressive college football note.

Postby NJRedman » Tue Jan 13, 2015 3:38 pm

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.
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Re: Strange but impressive college football note.

Postby FormulaX » Tue Jan 13, 2015 3:44 pm

I watched "the Bachelor" instead. I'm weary of the P5, Ohio State, and football reviewing every play.
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Re: Strange but impressive college football note.

Postby stever20 » Tue Jan 13, 2015 3:47 pm

the thing that the BCS and now the CFB has done is made college football much more of a national sport. Much more of a national sport now in a lot of ways than college basketball is. For one, the number of spots is so limited that it really fuels debate. Before the BCS- a SEC fan didn't give a rip about anything the Big Ten did. Now- totally opposite.

Also- if you are weary of football reviewing every play(which just isn't true- think there was 1 or 2 reviews the entire game last night)- basketball has become 100 times worse with their reviews of every play.
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Re: Strange but impressive college football note.

Postby FormulaX » Tue Jan 13, 2015 3:49 pm

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.

I'm not surprised on the ratings. The first True CFB championship! Big 10 vs Pac 12 (monday night) There wasn't much competition from other shows, nba or nhl was limited in games. *cold weather across the country.
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Re: Strange but impressive college football note.

Postby billyjack » Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:00 pm

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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Re: Strange but impressive college football note.

Postby stever20 » Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:32 pm

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?

Frankly when you started watching at 35-20 it was over. A lot of networks(not just ESPN don't show holding penalties on kickoffs because they happen so often). Oregon really never stopped Ohio St the entire game. Ohio St had 13 drives the entire game. 6 TD. 4 turnovers- a couple of which were lucky type bounces for Oregon. 1 3 and out the entire game. I watched the game with an Oregon fan and he was after the 1 70 yd pass play generally despondent the entire game because he knew they had no chance. Ohio St did dominate the game. 2nd half- Oregon outside of the 1 long play gained 75 yards in 23 plays. Think about that. Meanwhile- Ohio St had 45 plays and gained 216 yards on those plays. I get what you're saying about Oregon normally- just last night- it wasn't the case at all.

The key was end 3rd/early 4th. Oregon had come back to get within 1 at 21-20. Ohio St got the ball with 6:43 to go in the 3rd. They went down methodically and scored last play of the 3rd. Then Oregon came and had a 4 play drive end in a punt. Ohio St took 4 minutes and got another TD with about 10 minutes to go. 2 drives, 21 plays, 151 yards, 10:52 off the clock, 14 pts. Oregon had the drive that you saw end in a punt, and at that point, it was game over.
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Re: Strange but impressive college football note.

Postby BEwannabe » Tue Jan 13, 2015 5:03 pm

Apparently you (robinreed) weren't paying attention when I outlined ESPN's semifinal success in the thread about parents/guardian pay for travel. ESPN set records and WSJ article documented the success and ESPN would be charging Super Bowl like rates for Championship. ESPN will use this to build momentum for 6 or 8 team playoff. ESPN knows playoff football sells, it's captivating but it hurts college basketball tv because viewers don't get interested in hoops until football is over. ESPN will lure and the big schools will find a way to say yes because the $'s are huge and ESPN has the thing locked up until 2025.
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