The W/L ratio was kinda blah... But how did we do with viewership?

Texas St vs Rice - 2.8 Million viewers - Up 27% from last year - Largest viewership ever for bowl
Troy vs Duke: 2.67 Million viewers - +9% from last year
JMU vs Air Force: 2.4 Million - +23% from last year
App State vs Miami (OH) - 1.95 Million - Up 33% from last year
stAte vs NIU: 1.57 MIllion - Up 2% from last year
GaSo vs. Ohio - 1.2 MIllion - Up 33% from last year
GaSt vs Utah St: 1.15 Million - up 4% from last year
UL vs. JaxSt - 1.1 Million viewers
Marshall vs UTSA - 988k viewers
CCU vs SJSU - 950k viewers - Down 15% from last year
USA vs EMU - 765k viewers - Down 37% from last year
ODU vs WKU - 684k viewrss - Down 17% from last year



Notable:

Same date as TxStvRice - UNLV vs P5 Kansas - 2.6 Mill / BGSU vs P5 Minnesota 2.2 Million
USF vs Syracuse - 1.05 Million
SMU vs Boston College - 1.46 Million - Down 26% from last year
Tulane vs VT - 2.26 Million - up 4% from last year
UCF vs GaTech - 2.35 Million - Down 33% from last year
Celebration Bowl - 1.51 MIllion viewers - Smallest in History of the bowl





18,227,000 viewers with an average of 1,518,916 viewers per bowl.

Yeh, AAC teams got more P5 teams but... Viewership was more blah than our w/l ratio.

Our game was in Hawaii at 10:30p ET. I thought only Coastal and SJSU fans would be watching.

(01-01-2024 12:33 PM)TealNation Wrote:  Our game was in Hawaii at 10:30p ET. I thought only Coastal and SJSU fans would be watching.

The SICKO committee were tuned in and enjoying themselves.

SBC total viewership - 18.23 million
AAC total viewership - 8.55 Million (pending Memphis game)

(01-01-2024 12:28 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  The W/L ratio was kinda blah... But how did we do with viewership?

Texas St vs Rice - 2.8 Million viewers - Up 27% from last year - Largest viewership ever for bowl
Troy vs Duke: 2.67 Million viewers - +9% from last year
JMU vs Air Force: 2.4 Million - +23% from last year
App State vs Miami (OH) - 1.95 Million - Up 33% from last year
stAte vs NIU: 1.57 MIllion - Up 2% from last year
GaSo vs. Ohio - 1.2 MIllion - Up 33% from last year
GaSt vs Utah St: 1.15 Million - up 4% from last year
UL vs. JaxSt - 1.1 Million viewers
Marshall vs UTSA - 988k viewers
CCU vs SJSU - 950k viewers - Down 15% from last year
USA vs EMU - 765k viewers - Down 37% from last year
ODU vs WKU - 684k viewrss - Down 17% from last year



Notable:

Same date as TxStvRice - UNLV vs P5 Kansas - 2.6 Mill / BGSU vs P5 Minnesota 2.2 Million
USF vs Syracuse - 1.05 Million
SMU vs Boston College - 1.46 Million - Down 26% from last year
Tulane vs VT - 2.26 Million - up 4% from last year
UCF vs GaTech - 2.35 Million - Down 33% from last year
Celebration Bowl - 1.51 MIllion viewers - Smallest in History of the bowl





18,227,000 viewers with an average of 1,518,916 viewers per bowl.

Hell Yeah! Showin’ out in Style.

. . . and Drank the Stadium Dry Too. Cats know how to PAR TAY.

Yeh, it was a great game for the Bobcats and the SBC. Congrats again!

No one saw us lose to Ohio, right? Right? Everyone didn't know that bowl season had started that early I bet.

(01-01-2024 01:35 PM)Polish Hammer Wrote:  

Meanwhile FCS fans always hating on bowls lmao

(01-01-2024 02:40 PM)Bobcat2013 Wrote:  Meanwhile FCS fans always hating on bowls lmao

The best rated FCS games usually are the Celebration Bowl and the championship game. The championship game has never really garnered what the FCS accolades want... In contrast the Celebration Bowl usually brings in good crowds and viewers.

The HBCU has been the most viewed part of FCS for the last decade... And it still doesn't bring in the viewers the most medium level bowls bring in.

(01-01-2024 02:40 PM)Bobcat2013 Wrote:  Meanwhile FCS fans always hating on bowls lmao

But at least they still have an actual, bona-fide, playoff system and I enjoyed it while we were there.

Sure, but if a tree falls.....

(01-01-2024 04:16 PM)Bobcat2013 Wrote:  Sure, but if a tree falls.....

Squirrels would hear it . . . .. jus’ sayin’

I think the WKU vs ODU game ended up topping out at 900k+ on ESPN2. Not too bad given the timeslot and channel change.

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2023/12...nion-bowl/

Texas State vs Rice ratings were fairly jarring considering how Rice has basically no fans. Potentially it benefitted from being the only sporting event on during a day that most people were off work....still though, impressive.

(01-01-2024 12:58 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  SBC total viewership - 18.23 million
AAC total viewership - 8.55 Million (pending Memphis game)

Liberty Bowl drew 3.6 million. Full list up to NY6 here:

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

(01-03-2024 01:45 PM)HarborPointe Wrote:  

(01-01-2024 12:58 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  SBC total viewership - 18.23 million
AAC total viewership - 8.55 Million (pending Memphis game)

Liberty Bowl drew 3.6 million. Full list up to NY6 here:

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

And going back to previous thread...

(12-12-2023 12:36 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

(12-04-2023 10:53 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  One thing I've been thinking is the ratings for the three Saturday SBC bowl games on ABC are going to be so much higher than the midweek P5 ESPN games the AAC got stuck with.

Three ABC Saturday slots are great. I mean, great ooc performance all year, twelve teams bowling is great, and National Sun Belt Saturday on the 23rd also. Three games on OTA might be my favorite on that list of great.

The four AAC midweek games vs autonomy conference teams will probably average about 2.3 million viewers.

The first Saturday ABC slot typically gets around 2.4 million viewers. There aren't comps for second-bowl-Saturday ABC slots, but I think the JMU-AF game will do 3 million and Troy-Duke, somewhere in between, say 2.6 million.

Three Saturday ABC bowls for Sun Belt:
2,666,000 - 2,443,000 - 1,950,000 Total 7,059,000 - Avg 2,353,000
Four midweek ESPN autonomy opponent bowls for AAC:
3,595,000 - 2,259,000 - 1,456,000 - 1,050,000 Total 8,360,000 - Avg 2,090,000


Thread already had Sun Belt Total 18,236,000 - Average 1,519,667
AAC Total 12,144,000 - Average 2,024,000

I have stats that show you guys we're better in here somewhere, give me a minute.
- slh circa 2023 season

(01-03-2024 04:53 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  I have stats that show you guys we're better in here somewhere, give me a minute.
- slh circa 2023 season

You serious?
.
There was an earlier discussion and I came back to make sure I was accountable for that.

I specifically left it at just the facts and avoided any comment/analysis because of how sensitive little kiddies here will say any compliments are "back-handed"

I feel lke I was fulsome in praise in the earlier post, which I copied in full.