Yeah definitely no perfect way to compare. Those comparisons are the ones that I find most interesting, but yeah definitely no true apples to apples. The non-conference games, I realize they're relevant to the networks but I just personally don't really find them very interesting in comparing the amount of eyeballs actual Sun Belt teams draw compared to actual AAC teams.

With the new AAC and new SBC I expect there'll be more opportunity for comparisons that are closer to apples to apples, and obviously as an SBC fan I hope I'm right.

We will see what happens in the future, but say a Temple-Tulsa game draws 600k viewers and 250k are Temple fans, 250k are Tulsa fans and 100k are AAC fans or football junkies. How is that impacted when it’s Tulsa-FAU? FAU really doesn’t have fans so their share of eyeball drops. You are losing 3 of the largest AAC fanbases and replacing them with 6 much smaller fanbases. And does the football junkie care as much about FAU as Temple?

Notre Dame at Navy skews the AAC numbers. It belongs and should be absolutely be counted, but that's a significant bump for them.

Here's the simple solution for raw numbers: get a P5 at home. When they play under our TV deal, it helps our numbers for this.

We need to continue to get better within the league. The middle of the East beat A&M, Notre Dame and Nebraska on the road at the same time. We didn't carry that momentum very far.

Updates

Week 13 numbers looked really strong for G5 teams on broadcast TV.

Just goes to show if a G5 gets the chance we can put up good numbers.

Week 13
1.72M ABC Cincinnati vs Tulane
1.4M CBS Boise State vs Utah State
329K ESPN2 USF vs UCF
260K FS1 Fresno State vs Wyoming
229K ESPNU Ohio vs Bowling Green
213K ESPN2 SMU vs Memphis

(11-30-2022 09:12 PM)rileylives Wrote:  Updates

Week 13 numbers looked really strong for G5 teams on broadcast TV.

Just goes to show if a G5 gets the chance we can put up good numbers.

Week 13
1.72M ABC Cincinnati vs Tulane
1.4M CBS Boise State vs Utah State
329K ESPN2 USF vs UCF
260K FS1 Fresno State vs Wyoming
229K ESPNU Ohio vs Bowling Green
213K ESPN2 SMU vs Memphis

No numbers on Coastal vs JMU on ESPNU?

(12-01-2022 12:09 AM)Dignan Wrote:  

(11-30-2022 09:12 PM)rileylives Wrote:  Updates

Week 13 numbers looked really strong for G5 teams on broadcast TV.

Just goes to show if a G5 gets the chance we can put up good numbers.

Week 13
1.72M ABC Cincinnati vs Tulane
1.4M CBS Boise State vs Utah State
329K ESPN2 USF vs UCF
260K FS1 Fresno State vs Wyoming
229K ESPNU Ohio vs Bowling Green
213K ESPN2 SMU vs Memphis

No numbers on Coastal vs JMU on ESPNU?

No

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college...v-ratings/

What this tells me is that we need to knock the AAC out of those national TV slots and put them on +. We have better games, especially next year once the 3 are gone. I think there are 3-4 team in the 'belt that will be making a run and we could get multiple rankings. When they play each other we need ESPN or 2. This was the experimental year. Next year they will know who we are.