Fiesta Bowl tv ratings

[Fiyero]

Higher than Texas/OSU last year. Considerably higher than Florida/Cincy.
Yesterday's ratings
Last week's BCS ratings
All-time BCS ratings

Also note that Oregon/OSU was a bigger draw than last year's USC/PSU.

[TripletDaddy]

These rankings seem to confirm that Utah is a drag on TV ratings.

I wonder what the ratings would be in a game between Utah and Hawaii?

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Higher than Texas/OSU last year. Considerably higher than Florida/Cincy.
Yesterday's ratings
Last week's BCS ratings
All-time BCS ratings

Also note that Oregon/OSU was a bigger draw than last year's USC/PSU.

I could be reading this wrong but it looks like the Fiesta Bowl bombed as in it received the worst ratings ever for a BCS bowl. They got a 4.5 rating and an 11 share compared to an 8.5 rating for Florida v. Cincy and a 15 share. The lowest rated BCS bowl ever was Va. Tech vs. Cincy and that got a 5.4 rating.

[Fiyero]

I could be reading this wrong but it looks like the Fiesta Bowl bombed as in it received the worst ratings ever for a BCS bowl. They got a 4.5 rating and an 11 share compared to an 8.5 rating for Florida v. Cincy and a 15 share. The lowest rated BCS bowl ever was Va. Tech vs. Cincy and that got a 5.4 rating.

The 4.5 rating was from only one demographic. The total rating of 11 yielded 13 million viewers.

[I.J. Reilly]

The 4.5 rating was from only one demographic. The total rating of 11 yielded 13 million viewers.

I think you are confusing rating and share. From 8:30 - 11:00 there was an average of 4.4 rating with an 11 share yielding 13.1 million viewers.

The Florida game got an 8.5 rating, nearly double what the game last night yielded. Their shares compare more favorably, 11 to 15.

Edit: The rating from the game last night is given only with the 18-49 demographic, the most important demographic for just about anything outside of Fox News and CBS' drama shows. The site you gave does not give overall totals for the whole range of demographics, but you can bet that it was lower among the under 18 crowd and comparable to lower with the 50+ crowd.

The site for the Florida game does not give a demographic, so it can be supposed that it is across all demographics.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

The 4.5 rating was from only one demographic. The total rating of 11 yielded 13 million viewers.

EDIT: A decent, but unspectacular rating. Clearly the game received more attention than what the Orange Bowl disaster has been producing lately.

What's interesting about the links you provided was the dropoff in ratings after the January 2006 bowls when they put another bowl into the mix. Utah vs. Pitt was by far the lowest rated bowl from the inception of the BCS through the January 2006 bowls. Now there has been a bowl every year (I'm counting on the shitty Orange Bowl to pull through again), that's been rated lower than the Utah v. Pitt game. and in one case there was one lower and one tied.

Now in the first four years of the new 5-game system, the game involving the non-BCS team has only been the lowest rated game once (Georgia v. Hawaii which was a blowout and undoubtedly lowered the ratings over the course of the night). The other two (so far) were the 2007 Orange Bowl and 2009 Orange Bowl. I think the Orange Bowl will get the honor again with the Georgia Tech v. Iowa poo-poo platter.

The problem with the new 5 game system isn't so much the non-BCS schools, it's the fact that the additional spot and selection process has repeatedly created the situation where the Orange Bowl gets hosed. The Orange Bowl already has one strike against it due to the alignment with the ACC. It HAS to get a compelling at-large opponent to be watchable because the ACC has put forth so many average champions the last several years. Due to the fact that the Rose, Sugar and Fiesta Bowls have first dibs on the runner-ups from the four other power conferences (I'm not counting the Big East here), the ACC gets screwed over and over again with either the Big East Champ or the second place team from the conference that didn't place a team in the national title game. It also can't choose one of the non-BCS teams always come from out west- Miami is just too far away. They may have gone for TCU this year, but TCU got picked up by the Fiesta before the Orange Bowl was able to select it's second team.

[Fiyero]

It is confusing, the way they split ratings. That's because of advertising, and 18 to 49 year old men spend the most money, so advertising rates are higher with programs that draw us in.

Here's another article about last night's viewership, that is more clear:

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethe...in-monday.html

[Color Me Badd Fan]

The Orange Bowl got a 6.1 overall rating last night, it barely beat out The Biggest Loser, lol. The problem isn't so much the non-BCS getting in, the real problem is including the ACC and Big East champs in the mix.

EDIT: Actually the Biggest Loser DID beat the Orange Bowl during its time slot. NBC with the Jay Leno show narrowly lost to Fox over the entire prime time. Anyway, I hope Fox didn't pay too much for right to broadcast the BCS games.

[TripletDaddy]

I forgot that the Orange Bowl was even on tv last night. I have already checked out of the bowl games.

If anyone is wondering, having the championship game on a Thursday during a work week is a fantastic idea. Lots of awesome buzz around a huge city as people go to work and move on with their daily lives.

[Fiyero]

6.1? That can't be right. That would be roughly 55% of what the Fiesta pulled in, a game featuring two mid-major nobodies? I don't believe it. The Orange featured two BCS teams! The champion of the ACC, who is also a former SEC member! And a Big 10 team! The Big 10!

Nope, don't believe it one bit. That's an even lower number than last year's Sug, which featured a team that nobody had any interest in.

[LiveCoug]

6.1? That can't be right. That would be just over half of what the Fiesta pulled in, a game featuring two mid-major nobodies? I don't believe it. The Orange featured two BCS teams! The champion of the ACC, who is also a former SEC member! And a Big 10 team! The Big 10!

Nope, don't believe it one bit. That's an even lower number than last year's Sug, which featured a team that nobody had any interest in.

I thought the Fiesta pulled a 7.4, no?

[Fiyero]

I thought the Fiesta pulled in an 11? I don't know. One says rating, another says share, another says millions, it's number-crunching nerd anarchy.

Regardless, the Orange remains in last place, just like last year's eastern seaboard ACC/Big East matchup.

[TripletDaddy]

I thought the Fiesta pulled in an 11? I don't know. One says rating, another says share, another says millions, it's number-crunching nerd anarchy.

Regardless, the Orange remains in last place, just like last year's eastern seaboard ACC/Big East matchup.

well, this should make everyone feel better about Utah being in second to last place. once again, Utah finishes second.

[LiveCoug]

8.2


http://www.idahostatesman.com/boises...y/1031320.html

Also, it looks like DFW area truly tuned in for TCU! Nicely done! Hopefully more people out there will start paying attention to TCU football.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

I thought the Fiesta pulled in an 11? I don't know. One says rating, another says share, another says millions, it's number-crunching nerd anarchy.

Regardless, the Orange remains in last place, just like last year's eastern seaboard ACC/Big East matchup.

I think it was a 7.6 for the Fiesta and, yes, it was a much stronger rating than the Orange Bowl. The Orange Bowl is hating life right now because of its alliance with the ACC. The Orange Bowl was THE BOWL in the 80s and 90s and look what's happened to it now. The ACC thing worked out well in the late 90s when FSU was a top 3 program.

How did the Fiesta ever wrestle the Big 8/Big 12 champ away from the Orange Bowl? Or did the Orange turn its back on the Big 12 so they could get FSU every year?