2008 Bowl Game ratings

[Fiyero]

15.8 BCS Championship Florida-Oklahoma
11.7 Rose Southern Cal-Penn State
10.4 Fiesta Texas-Ohio State
7.8 Sugar Utah-Alabama
6.4 Capital One Georgia-Michigan State
5.4 Orange Va. Tech-Cincinnati
5.2 Champs Sports Florida State-Wisconsin
4.6 Alamo Missouri-Northwestern
4.6 Emerald Cal-Miami (Fla.)
4.6 Holiday Oregon-Oklahoma State
4.5 Meineke Car Care West Virginia-North Carolina
4.4 Cotton Ole Miss-Texas Tech
4.1 Gator Nebraska-Clemson
3.9 Chick-fil-A LSU-Georgia Tech
3.7 Poinsettia Texas Christian-Boise State
3.1 Outback Iowa-South Carolina
3.0 Hawaii Notre Dame-Hawaii
2.8 Music City Vanderbilt-Boston College
2.7 Liberty Kentucky-East Carolina
2.6 New Mexico Colorado State-Fresno State
2.5 Las Vegas Arizona-BYU
2.5 Motor City Florida Atlantic-Central Michigan
2.4 Humanitarian Maryland-Nevada
2.2 EagleBank Wake Forest-Navy
2.2 GMAC Tulsa-Ball State
2.2 Sun Oregon State-Pitt
2.1 International UConn-Buffalo
2.0 Papajohns.com Rutgers-North Carolina State
1.7 Armed Forces Houston-Air Force
1.3 St. Petersburg South Florida-Memphis
1.2 Insight Kansas-Minnesota
1.0 Independence La. Tech-Northern Illinois
0.8 New Orleans Southern Miss.-Troy
0.3 Texas Rice-Western Michigan

[il Padrino Ute]

That's quite a drop from the Fiesta to the Sugar Bowl. I'm guessing that had a BCS team played rather than Utah, the numbers would have been higher, which would tell me that my belief that the BCS is about tv revenue and not football would be correct.

[LiveCoug]

And the Las Vegas bowl was the 4th highest rated bowl with a MWC team. Even the NM bowl beat the Vegas bowl. Wow.

[Fiyero]

That's quite a drop from the Fiesta to the Sugar Bowl. I'm guessing that had a BCS team played rather than Utah, the numbers would have been higher, which would tell me that my belief that the BCS is about tv revenue and not football would be correct.

Oh I don't know, the Sug's 7.8 is higher than three of last year's BCS ratings:

17.4 BCS Championship LSU-Ohio St.
11.1 Rose Southern Cal-Illinois
7.7 Fiesta W. Virginia-Oklahoma
7.4 Orange Kansas-Va. Tech
7.0 Sugar Georgia-Hawaii

Texas has a large following.

[il Padrino Ute]

Oh I don't know, the Sug's 7.8 is higher than three of last year's BCS ratings:

17.4 BCS Championship LSU-Ohio St.
11.1 Rose Southern Cal-Illinois
7.7 Fiesta W. Virginia-Oklahoma
7.4 Orange Kansas-Va. Tech
7.0 Sugar Georgia-Hawaii

Texas has a large following.

Interesting.

Perhaps the Nielsen boxes turned on after the first quarter and folks saw that three touchdown lead by Utah and decided the game was essentially over?