So I decided to do a post about the Top Annual Match-ups in the ACC from 2013-2018. In order to qualify the contests must have been aired on ABC, ESPN, or ESPN2 at least 4 times in the 6 year period. I doubt any of the below will come as much of revelation but I post for the record. The match-up, the average number of viewers being at least 1.5 million viewers for the match-up, and the number of games shown in the 6-year span.


Florida State/Miami - 5.278 million viewers (6 games)
Florida State/Clemson - 5.166 million viewers (6 games)
Clemson/Louisville - 4.497 million viewers (4 games)
Florida State/Louisville - 3.535 million viewers (4 games)
Clemson/North Carolina State - 2.771 million viewers (5 games)
Clemson/Syracuse - 2.761 million viewers (5 games)

Virginia Tech/Virginia - 2.300 million viewers (4 games)
Florida State/North Carolina State - 2.141 million viewers (5 games)
Florida State/Syracuse - 2.103 million viewers (5 games)
Clemson/Boston College - 2.098 million viewers (4 games)

Virginia Tech/Georgia Tech - 1.986 million viewers (4 games)
Clemson/Georgia Tech - 1.938 million viewers (6 games)
Florida State/Boston College - 1.887 million viewers (6 games)
Miami-Pittsburgh - 1.836 million viewers (5 games)
Miami/North Carolina - 1.674 million viewers (4 games)
Miami/Virginia Tech - 1.671 million viewers (5 games)
Miami/Georgia Tech - 1.541 million viewers (4 games)


Cheers,
Neil

(12-18-2018 06:48 AM)OrangeDude Wrote:  So I decided to do a post about the Top Annual Match-ups in the ACC from 2013-2018. In order to qualify the contests must have been aired on ABC, ESPN, or ESPN2 at least 4 times in the 6 year period.

That bolded parameter ruled out all of the non-rivalry cross-overs, didn't it? I wonder how games like FSU/VT and Clemson/Miami compare? For that matter, VT/Syracuse and Pitt/Clemson? There might be some hidden gems in there!

(12-18-2018 07:17 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(12-18-2018 06:48 AM)OrangeDude Wrote:  So I decided to do a post about the Top Annual Match-ups in the ACC from 2013-2018. In order to qualify the contests must have been aired on ABC, ESPN, or ESPN2 at least 4 times in the 6 year period.

That bolded parameter ruled out all of the non-rivalry cross-overs, didn't it? I wonder how games like FSU/VT and Clemson/Miami compare? For that matter, VT/Syracuse and Pitt/Clemson? There might be some hidden gems in there!

Florida State/Virginia Tech - 5.576
Clemson/Pittsburgh - 4.926
Clemson/Virginia Tech - 4.693
Florida State/Pittsburgh - 4.470
Miami/Louisville - 3.610

Clemson/Miami - 2.634
Clemson/Duke - 2.452
Louisville/North Carolina - 2.263
Miami/Syracuse - 2.093

Florida State/Georgia Tech - 1.943
Florida State/Virginia - 1.910
Louisville/Duke - 1.881
Florida State/North Carolina - 1.743
Virginia Tech/North Carolina State - 1.523

Cheers,
Neil

Wake Forest absent from both lists. Duke is only on the 2nd list. Boston College is only on the 1st list.