Even a few non-P4 matchups had better numbers than our game.

Georgia at Texas tops Week 8 college football viewership https://t.co/kTMEWLzHP4 pic.twitter.com/6YaS85Eba4

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) October 24, 2024

No love for the BU/TT Bowl

I'm surprised that many watched.

Some pretty tough competition in that 3:30/4:00 ET time slot.

Let's face reality…the big 12 is mostly the short bus of college football.

I watched. Can you count me more than once???

ESPN2 and FS1 games always do bad numbers. It's just a fact of life.

When you're on either network, you're going to do between 300K and 550K, tops.

ESPN is the only cable network that gives you a chance to do well, depending on the matchup and timeslot.

BellCountyBear said:

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Let's face reality…the big 12 is mostly the short bus of college football.

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Reality is that below the top four or five games every week, TV ratings are influenced extremely heavily by timeslot and network.

Put the Big 12 on network TV or ESPN and it will usually do between 1 and 2.5 million. That's a really good number. It's just not as good as what those networks could do with the bigger brands of the Big Ten and SEC. As a result, those two leagues get most of the prime slots, which adds to the ratings gap.

The Big 12's top two games almost always finish in the top 10 on a given a week. But when your third and fourth games are either in weird time slots or on ESPN2 and FS1, there's a pretty hard cap on what your league will draw.

ESPN2 may not get the best ratings, but Baylor v Tech as still #4 on the channel.

Watch Miami's numbers week to week and it makes sense why they will eventually get in one of the P2 conferences or a Super League.

Aberzombie1892 said:

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ESPN2 may not get the best ratings, but Baylor v Tech as still #4 on the channel.

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But the gap is marginal. The only game that even reached 400K was the primetime game.

And as pointed out above, the 3 p.m. kickoff, which is a weird timeslot to begin with because most afternoon games kick off a half-hour earlier, had by far the stiffest competition. We were up against Alabama-Tennessee, Michigan-Illinois and Notre Dame (among others).

Big12Fan2024 said:

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Watch Miami's numbers week to week and it makes sense why they will eventually get in one of the P2 conferences or a Super League.

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Miami is winning this year, which helps. But they have managed to keep a national TV audience through decades of relative mediocrity, which is interesting, because their local fan base kind of sucks. They draw flies when they're struggling.

bear2be2 said:

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Big12Fan2024 said:

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Watch Miami's numbers week to week and it makes sense why they will eventually get in one of the P2 conferences or a Super League.

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Miami is winning this year, which helps. But they have managed to keep a national TV audience through decades of relative mediocrity, which is interesting, because their local fan base kind of sucks. They draw flies when they're struggling.

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Yep. They draw the key demographic of the passive fan searching for a game on Saturday afternoon. There's a whole generation of fans who are now middle aged who grew up watching the championship teams of the late 80s through mid-90s and still associate the brand as big time college football whether they liked the Canes or not. That age group tends to be more sedentary and prone to be one of the biggest demographics of Sat afternoon college football so as they flip the channel looking for game they wander on the Canes game and stay. But if the Canes don't get something going they could pay the price here in a few years because the next generation has seen nothing but marginal football from the U and won't be as likely to stick with watching them.

Miami had some "bad dudes" in the 80s and 90s. That rep still draws eyeballs in 2024. Baylor could've had that if not for a ruhtarded board of regents.

bear2be2 said:

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Aberzombie1892 said:

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ESPN2 may not get the best ratings, but Baylor v Tech as still #4 on the channel.

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But the gap is marginal. The only game that even reached 400K was the primetime game.

And as pointed out above, the 3 p.m. kickoff, which is a weird timeslot to begin with because most afternoon games kick off a half-hour earlier, had by far the stiffest competition. We were up against Alabama-Tennessee, Michigan-Illinois and Notre Dame (among others).

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The gap is marginal…to 3 games solely involving G5 teams.

BellCountyBear said:

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Miami had some "bad dudes" in the 80s and 90s. That rep still draws eyeballs in 2024. Baylor could've had that if not for a ruhtarded board of regents.

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Don't leave off the admin folks who had primary responsibility for university management.