http://www.bcsfootball.org/news/story?id=4819384

Because of the importance of TV ratings on our deals with ESPN and likelihood of getting at-large bowl games, I found this interesting:

2010

GoDaddy.com, Miami (Ohio)-Mid. Tenn State, 2.03, 38,168
Little Caesars , Fla. International-Toledo, 1.63, 32,431
New Orleans, Troy-Ohio, 1.53, 29,159

2009

GMAC, Central Michigan-Troy, 2.73, 34,486
New Orleans, Southern Miss-Middle Tenn., 0.76, 30,228

2008

Motor City, Florida Atlantic-Cent. Michigan, 2.50, 41,399
New Orleans, Southern Miss.-Troy, 0.80, 30,197

2007

New Orleans , Fla. Atlantic-Memphis, 1.63, 25,146

2006

New Orleans , Rice-Troy, 1.32, 24,791

2005

New Orleans, Southern Miss-Arkansas State, 1.71, 18,338

2004

New Orleans, Southern Miss-North Texas, 1.4, 27,253

2003

Silicon Valley Classic, Troy-N. Illinois, 0.6, 21,456

2002

New Orleans, Memphis-University of North Texas, 1.54, 5,184

2001

New Orleans, North Texas-Cincinnati, 1.4, NA

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I wish I had "share" numbers instead of just "rating" numbers.

Troy has the best bowl game rating since 2001 with 2.73% of all TV households watching the 2009 GMAC bowl.

ASU has the best New Orleans bowl game rating since 2001 with 1.71% of all TV households watching the 2005 New Orleans Bowl

FAU has the most attended bowl since 2001 with FAU-CMU in the Motor City Bowl.

you for got one

Motor City 2006


Middle Tenn.-C. Michigan


2.11


54,113

you for got one

Motor City 2006


Middle Tenn.-C. Michigan


2.11


54,113

And that changes the attendance breakdown. Good catch.

that GMAC Bowl game we faced CMU in was one of the best games I've ever seen...let alone witnessed.

damn I wish we could have won that one.

Wow...don't play USM if you can help it! That Troy vs CMU game was a good rating for us. A couple of the others weren't too bad being above 2.0 and all...at least for us right now.

(07-24-2011 09:04 PM)marlonfield Wrote:  you for got one

Motor City 2006


Middle Tenn.-C. Michigan


2.11


54,113

Make that he missed 2,

New Orleans 2003

Memphis-University of North Texas

1.54

25,184

I only noticed because you only have Troy as a bowl team in 2003, and they didnt win the conference that year, and they went to the silicon valley. That was the first year that the belt had 2 teams in a bowl game.

Another good catch.

(07-24-2011 09:30 PM)Burn the Horse Wrote:  that GMAC Bowl game we faced CMU in was one of the best games I've ever seen...let alone witnessed.

damn I wish we could have won that one.

Agree; that was a fantastic game . . back and forth . . wish Troy had pulled it out also.