Is that a good rating? Isn’t that rating draw along the lines of a soon-to-be cancelled Fox primetime show? This season sucked big time, and the bowls have yielded little interest as well. I’m only excited about the game tonite because every car in town has a Bama or Texas flag on it and it’s kind of exciting to be hosting the BCS championship game. I hope Texas kills ’em. But of course they won’t.
Hopefully next season will be better. Although the ESPN talking dorks are already projecting an Ohio St. vs. VaTech BCS championship, which would have “real sucky season” written all over that headline.
Brendan Loy
SweaterVest vs. BeamerBall??? Good lord, I hope not. Hopefully Boise State will knock that down early on…
Brendan Loy
P.S. Compared to other BCS bowls’ ratings, 8.2 is middling — not awful, not great. Certainly not some sort of a disaster that proves you should never, ever match up two mid-major teams.
Looking at the prior three years, going back to 2006-07, when the BCS went to the double-hosting format, it’s below all the Championship Games and Rose Bowls, which are always above 10, and also below last year’s Texas-Ohio State Fiesta Bowl (10.4), 2007’s Notre Dame-LSU Sugar Bowl (9.3), and 2007’s Boise-Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl (8.4). But it’s ahead of all the Orange Bowls (5.4, 7.0, 7.4), which have been either ACC vs. BE or ACC vs. B12; ahead of the Alabama-Utah and Georgia-Hawaii Sugar Bowls (7.8 and 7.0, respectively); and ahead of the 2008 WVU-Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl (7.7).
So basically, a game between two undefeated mid-majors ranked in the Top 6 is a better ratings draw than any game involving an ACC or Big East team, and better than most major vs. mid-major matchups, but worse than any matchup involving two teams from the SEC, Big 12, Pac-10, Big Ten or Notre Dame. Sounds like about what I’d have expected.
More simply, it’s worse than 9 bowls from the prior three years (8 not including the almost-tied Boise ’07 game) and better than 6 bowls. Again, not great, but not some unspeakable disaster that will assure such a matchup never happens again.
Brendan Loy
P.P.S. This year’s Florida-Cincinnati Sugar Bowl had an 8.7, the highest ever rating for a game involving a Big East team, and a somewhat better rating than TCU-Boise’s 8.2. The 8.7 is pretty impressive considering how lopsided the game was. I’m thinking the Tim Tebow Effect (OMG IT’S JESUS’ LAST GAME), along with the intrigue surrounding the resignation/un-resignation of Urban Meyer, and (to a lesser extent) the departure of Brian Kelly, had a lot to do with that. I also think Florida-Boise or Florida-TCU would almost certainly have drawn as good, or better, ratings (and would have been a better game). It’s primarily Florida that was driving that rating.
Orange Bowl rating: 6.8. Fiesta Bowl rating: 8.2. http://bit.ly/7WOQ3C
Is that a good rating? Isn’t that rating draw along the lines of a soon-to-be cancelled Fox primetime show? This season sucked big time, and the bowls have yielded little interest as well. I’m only excited about the game tonite because every car in town has a Bama or Texas flag on it and it’s kind of exciting to be hosting the BCS championship game. I hope Texas kills ’em. But of course they won’t.
Hopefully next season will be better. Although the ESPN talking dorks are already projecting an Ohio St. vs. VaTech BCS championship, which would have “real sucky season” written all over that headline.
SweaterVest vs. BeamerBall??? Good lord, I hope not. Hopefully Boise State will knock that down early on…
P.S. Compared to other BCS bowls’ ratings, 8.2 is middling — not awful, not great. Certainly not some sort of a disaster that proves you should never, ever match up two mid-major teams.
Looking at the prior three years, going back to 2006-07, when the BCS went to the double-hosting format, it’s below all the Championship Games and Rose Bowls, which are always above 10, and also below last year’s Texas-Ohio State Fiesta Bowl (10.4), 2007’s Notre Dame-LSU Sugar Bowl (9.3), and 2007’s Boise-Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl (8.4). But it’s ahead of all the Orange Bowls (5.4, 7.0, 7.4), which have been either ACC vs. BE or ACC vs. B12; ahead of the Alabama-Utah and Georgia-Hawaii Sugar Bowls (7.8 and 7.0, respectively); and ahead of the 2008 WVU-Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl (7.7).
So basically, a game between two undefeated mid-majors ranked in the Top 6 is a better ratings draw than any game involving an ACC or Big East team, and better than most major vs. mid-major matchups, but worse than any matchup involving two teams from the SEC, Big 12, Pac-10, Big Ten or Notre Dame. Sounds like about what I’d have expected.
More simply, it’s worse than 9 bowls from the prior three years (8 not including the almost-tied Boise ’07 game) and better than 6 bowls. Again, not great, but not some unspeakable disaster that will assure such a matchup never happens again.
P.P.S. This year’s Florida-Cincinnati Sugar Bowl had an 8.7, the highest ever rating for a game involving a Big East team, and a somewhat better rating than TCU-Boise’s 8.2. The 8.7 is pretty impressive considering how lopsided the game was. I’m thinking the Tim Tebow Effect (OMG IT’S JESUS’ LAST GAME), along with the intrigue surrounding the resignation/un-resignation of Urban Meyer, and (to a lesser extent) the departure of Brian Kelly, had a lot to do with that. I also think Florida-Boise or Florida-TCU would almost certainly have drawn as good, or better, ratings (and would have been a better game). It’s primarily Florida that was driving that rating.