Lots of SEC games, especially bama.

So not many people saw us beat down LSU or beat ND

So yer saying Bama's a playoff lock regardless?

waco_aggie05 said:

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And now the polls make so much more sense

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There is only one answer in all of college football. It does not matter the question.

Money.

Tex117 said:

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waco_aggie05 said:

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And now the polls make so much more sense

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There is only one answer in all of college football. It does not matter the question.

Money.

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And how much more money could college football make if the "powers that be" pushed more schools in order for them to become more popular instead of pushing the same 5 teams over and over again?

It's the same with MLB, the mouth breathers in the booths constantly pimping the Yankees and Dodgers and claiming it's "good for baseball" if only those 2 teams played in the World Series every year instead of trying to expand the viewership by marketing other franchises.

Most watched teams

ESPN reported that Texas A&M vs Texas had 13 million viewers and peaked at 14.3 million. That's a big difference compared to the OP graphic.

Yeah I've seen several different graphics out there. Hard to tell what is actual

Here's another one

South Carolina at 4.15 million per game sticks out but that is a reflection of who they played this year. A good schedule = more viewers.

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Tex117 said:

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waco_aggie05 said:

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And now the polls make so much more sense

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There is only one answer in all of college football. It does not matter the question.

Money.

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And how much more money could college football make if the "powers that be" pushed more schools in order for them to become more popular instead of pushing the same 5 teams over and over again?

It's the same with MLB, the mouth breathers in the booths constantly pimping the Yankees and Dodgers and claiming it's "good for baseball" if only those 2 teams played in the World Series every year instead of trying to expand the viewership by marketing other franchises.

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This is exactly what the powers that be are doing and it's working. See the playoff rankings-the committee bending over backwards to "push" Oregon(not even top 20 most watched), Tech(nobody watches), Indiana(nobody watches), others AND the overall viewership numbers are up dramatically over the past 3 years. THIS is their bias-to achieve variety across the country and conferences. If you want to know why we are being screwed with 1 loss teams ranked ahead of us? It's because the CFP will move heaven and earth to cater to the little guy pretending that their schedule is just as tough as an SEC schedule.

no LSU vs TAMU?

Jbob is putting this all on here so we can all see how popular his longhorns are.

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BTKAG97 said:

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Tex117 said:

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waco_aggie05 said:

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And now the polls make so much more sense

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There is only one answer in all of college football. It does not matter the question.

Money.

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And how much more money could college football make if the "powers that be" pushed more schools in order for them to become more popular instead of pushing the same 5 teams over and over again?

It's the same with MLB, the mouth breathers in the booths constantly pimping the Yankees and Dodgers and claiming it's "good for baseball" if only those 2 teams played in the World Series every year instead of trying to expand the viewership by marketing other franchises.

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This is exactly what the powers that be are doing and it's working. See the playoff rankings-the committee bending over backwards to "push" Oregon(not even top 20 most watched), Tech(nobody watches), Indiana(nobody watches), others AND the overall viewership numbers are up dramatically over the past 3 years. THIS is their bias-to achieve variety across the country and conferences. If you want to know why we are being screwed with 1 loss teams ranked ahead of us? It's because the CFP will move heaven and earth to cater to the little guy pretending that their schedule is just as tough as an SEC schedule.

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Ding ding ding.

These numbers depend on a few factors other than just who is playing.

They depend on time slot and other competing big games.

The B1G tends to skew their numbers by having a lot of their "big" games played in the Big Noon time slot. Most SEC teams consider the noon/11 am time slot to be a punishment.

If you have a bunch of night games and there are multiple big night games each weekend, your numbers will get split.

It would be interesting to check to see what other games were on at the same time as the biggest viewership games. My guess is those games were far and away the biggest games on at that time so the numbers didn't get split up.

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And how much more money could college football make if the "powers that be" pushed more schools in order for them to become more popular instead of pushing the same 5 teams over and over again?

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It's like the music industry now: they know what is selling so instead of taking risks pushing out new, different music , they already know that x,y and z sell so they just keeping pumping out and promoting the same type of music.

So next time someone says ESPN hates us, just know that's not true. ESPN doesn't hate anyone. They just really, really, really love the teams at the top of these lists.

Regarding A&M at Notre Dame, keep in mind the other games going on at the same time. ESPN had Arkansas at Ole Miss and ABC had Florida at LSU. By comparison, other major network games going at the same time as Texas-Ohio State were Syracuse vs. Tennessee (ABC) and Mississippi State at Southern Miss (ESPN).

the more coolest guy said:

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Jbob is putting this all on here so we can all see how popular his longhorns are.

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I've been called a lot of things but not a longhorn. You are the only one who has brought the steers up

Do Nielsen Ratings catch streaming services? Or is OTA/cable networks only?

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So not many people saw us beat down LSU or beat ND

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Texas has four that list and we have one…playing Texas…tells you ALL you need to know about why ESPN prefers them in the playoffs over us.

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Here's another one

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Basically just depends on how many of your games are on ABC for SEC teams. Sips got more than a couple of their bad games on ABC, which triples ones' viewership numbers.

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So not many people saw us beat down LSU or beat ND

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Texas has four that list and we have one…playing Texas…tells you ALL you need to know about why ESPN prefers them in the playoffs over us.

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eh, it's about who is playing on ABC and how close the game is. Like we demolished LSU too badly in that one by mid 3Q.

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South Carolina at 4.15 million per game sticks out but that is a reflection of who they played this year. A good schedule = more viewers.

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Their fans are intensely loyal. Read an article several years ago about how they are a consistently .500 team with that as their average at the time. They always have great crowds at their games which likely translates to loyal viewers as well.

Do y'all have any word on Moss playing? He's a game changer from what I saw earlier in the year. I hope he is even though, obviously, I won't be pulling for y'all to win.