(06-02-2020 04:49 PM)jedclampett Wrote: (06-02-2020 10:03 AM)slhNavy91 Wrote: (06-02-2020 12:19 AM)jedclampett Wrote: I. Boise State:
I get the argument about Boise, but in reply, no other FB program in the country except BYU has had better TV ratings than Boise State.
(06-02-2020 01:28 AM)jedclampett Wrote: Those are pretty good arguments, but I think that Boise FB has had the top viewership numbers among non-P5 teams over the past 5 years.
This is the opposite of true.
2019
Boise: 5,175,000 regular season viewers home and away. Las Vegas Bowl 2,640,000
Memphis: 11,666,000 reg.season viewers, all in AAC-controlled games. Cotton Bowl 6,220,000
Cincinnati: 12,020,000 all season, 9,080,000 in AAC controlled games
Navy: 11, 163,000 all season, but over nine million in Army/ND (2020 ND game will be AAC inventory). Navy's bowl viewership bigger than Boise's at 3,330,000
Houston: 11,009,000. 5,569,000 in AAC controlled games bigger than Boise's total.
UCF: 9,432,000 reg season, 6,289,000 AAC controlled
Boise's Fiesta Bowl ranks third of six NY6 bowl games involving non-contract-bowl-conference teams in the CFP era.
Those data are informative - - but for 2019 only.
What I had written was that I thought that "Boise FB has had the top viewership numbers among non-P5 teams over the past 5 years," not in 2019.
Perhaps I should be more precise: I think that Boise FB may have had the top average viewership numbers among non-P5 teams over the past 5 years (not just 2019, but across 2015 to 2019).
You. Thought. Wrong.
I'll do one more year for you, because I have the data at my fingertips for 2018 as well.
But here is a good source going farther back. Seriously, do the work crunching the numbers yourself.
https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college...v-ratings/
And I say that from a "teach a man to fish" perspective -- you will get a much better appreciation for the data when you have rolled up your sleeves and gotten into it.
2018
Boise 6,004,000 reg season viewers. Only 4,566,000 in mwc controlled games
UCF 14,373,000 all AAC controlled games
Navy 10,882,000 although over 8 million A-N alone (ND@Navy games part of the AAC contract starting in 2020)
Memphis 8,803,000 reg season viewers, all AAC-controlled games
USF 7,453,000 reg season viewers, all AAC controlled games
Houston 7,287,000 reg season viewers, 6,208,000 w/o the @TCU game
Boise's bowl game garnered 1,445,000 viewers before getting called. Memphis, Cincinnati, UCF, Houston, and USF all outdrew it. I'll mention UCF in the Fiesta - outdrew Boise's 2014 Fiesta, because Boise is not a better TV draw.
2019
Boise: 5,175,000 regular season viewers home and away. Las Vegas Bowl 2,640,000
Memphis: 11,666,000 reg.season viewers, all in AAC-controlled games. Cotton Bowl 6,220,000
Cincinnati: 12,020,000 all season, 9,080,000 in AAC controlled games
Navy: 11, 163,000 all season, but over nine million in Army/ND (2020 ND game will be AAC inventory). Navy's bowl viewership bigger than Boise's at 3,330,000
Houston: 11,009,000. 5,569,000 in AAC controlled games bigger than Boise's total.
UCF: 9,432,000 reg season, 6,289,000 AAC controlled
Again - you really should get into the numbers at sportsmediawatch yourself.
Here is a CONFERENCE-centric discussion of the bigger numbers, greater than a million viewers. You can drill down into the thread for Boise specifically, but the conference level view from '15-'18:
'15-'18 total games over 3 million viewers: AAC 26, mwc 4, MAC 3
'15-'18 total games over 2 million viewers: AAC 49, CUSA 6, MAC 10, mwc 12, SBC 2
'15-'18 total games over 1 million viewers: AAC 79, CUSA 29, MAC 26, mwc 38, SBC 6
'15-'18 non-bowl games over 3 million viewers: AAC 19. MAC 2
'15-'18 non-bowl games over 2 million viewers: AAC 33, CUSA 3, MAC 1, mwc 5
'15-'18 non-bowl games over 1 million viewers: AAC 54, CUSA 6, MAC 10, mwc 17, SBC 2
'15-'18 conference controlled games over 3 million viewers: AAC 11, G4s 0
'15-'18 conference controlled games over 2 million viewers: AAC 20, mwc 1
'15-'18 conference controlled games over 1 million viewers: AAC 35, CUSA 1, MAC 2, mwc 5
'15-'18 intra-conference games over 3 million viewers: AAC 7, G4s 0
'15-'18 intra-conference games over 2 million viewers: AAC 11, G4s 0
'15-'18 intra-conference games over 1 million viewers: AAC 13, MAC 2 (CCGs), mwc 3 (2 reg season, 1 CCG)
Those million-plus viewer AAC vs AAC games included ten of the twelve teams.
https://csnbbs.com/thread-867843.html