The four most-viewed non-CFP bowls ALL featured an SEC school – the Citrus Bowl (LSU), Outback Bowl (South Carolina), Music City Bowl (Kentucky) and Gator Bowl (Mississippi State).
The most-viewed non-CFP bowl that didn’t feature an SEC school was the Alamo Bowl (No. 15 TCU vs. No. 13 Stanford), Thursday, Dec. 28 on ESPN, 4.368 million viewers.
The three non-ESPN/ABC bowl listed all drew fewer than 2.3 million viewers, putting them in the bottom 35% of the rankings despite the fact that they each featured a Power vs. Power matchup.
http://www.fbschedules.com/2018/01/which-bowl-games-were-watched-most/
The bottom line is – except for in extreme cases where top ten teams are squaring off for a chance at a title, FBS programs draw additional viewers during bowl season. Additionally, meaningful games generally outdraw those without any true consequences. Finally, if you’re out shopping your bowl game to a television network, a deal with a member of the ESPN/ABC family will pay off, big time, in viewership.
I only watched about half the bowls and then just had the game on in the background. As the writer says if the game was meaningless I tuned out. But I did the same in the regular season too. I did not watch meaningless games unless an upset alert caught my attention -- Troy ahead of LSU late in the game.
The most-viewed non-CFP bowl that didn’t feature an SEC school was the Alamo Bowl (No. 15 TCU vs. No. 13 Stanford), Thursday, Dec. 28 on ESPN, 4.368 million viewers.
The three non-ESPN/ABC bowl listed all drew fewer than 2.3 million viewers, putting them in the bottom 35% of the rankings despite the fact that they each featured a Power vs. Power matchup.
http://www.fbschedules.com/2018/01/which-bowl-games-were-watched-most/
The bottom line is – except for in extreme cases where top ten teams are squaring off for a chance at a title, FBS programs draw additional viewers during bowl season. Additionally, meaningful games generally outdraw those without any true consequences. Finally, if you’re out shopping your bowl game to a television network, a deal with a member of the ESPN/ABC family will pay off, big time, in viewership.
I only watched about half the bowls and then just had the game on in the background. As the writer says if the game was meaningless I tuned out. But I did the same in the regular season too. I did not watch meaningless games unless an upset alert caught my attention -- Troy ahead of LSU late in the game.
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