(01-08-2020 10:41 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(01-07-2020 06:29 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(01-07-2020 06:07 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-07-2020 01:37 PM)bullet Wrote:  Note that Alabama-Michigan was #4, ahead of 3 NY6 games.
#8 was Texas-Utah, #9 Texas A&M-Oklahoma St., #10 Notre Dame-Iowa St. and #11 the other NYD game-Auburn-Minnesota.

Auburn / Minnesota would have been more highly rated but it was going head to head with Michigan / Alabama which admittedly was a much more compelling match up. That's the problem with viewing numbers in the noon slot on New Year's day. Right now 3 bowls are played in that time slot.

ND/Iowa State went up against Memphis/Penn State as well, I believe.

Yes, the Cotton Bowl and Camping Bowl were both on at 1 PM EST. The Camping Bowl was on ABC, the Cotton Bowl on ESPN.

To me New Year's day is an extremely frustrating and mismanaged day. You are coming off of two weeks worth of lesser bowl games strung out to tease their way to New Year's day with every bowl carefully spaced not to overlap and when you get to the day where the match ups involve better teams and the bowls still have a semblance of consequence to them you get 3 key games at once, an overlap of the Rose with the Sugar. Quite frankly that pisses me off! I know none of them want to give up New Year's day, but it seems to me if they actually made those games more accessible that all of their ratings would go up and that should make them more profitable. But 3 key games year after year at the same time is just stupid.