College Football TV Ratings for Teams and Conferences: 2013

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BYU #57 We need to schedule better games to get on ESPN more to get a higher ranking. And of course win more games.

Disagree. Half the equation is based on winning and fan interest. Better teams, more losses. Watch this number go up this year, bc of more wins, better record, more national attention, more excitement, etc.

we certainly don't need a tougher schedule than last year.

Thanks for posting the article. Good stuff.

Cougs_Rule wrote:
Disagree. Half the equation is based on winning and fan interest. Better teams, more losses. Watch this number go up this year, bc of more wins, better record, more national attention, more excitement, etc.

we certainly don't need a tougher schedule than last year.

Thanks for posting the article. Good stuff.

I agree with DM that it will go up with winning. Bandwagon fans jump on. Other ranked team fans check BYU out even if only coming to critique. Gaudy numbers create star players. Media sensations. Then fans of other teams with stars check in to compare and critique.



It will not skyrocket, but it will move up.



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Look at the # of rated games. Many of the teams ahead of us only have 4 rated games. Those were likely their biggest games. We had 9 rated games. It's apples to oranges.

Also consider the channel it was on. ESPNU gets poor ratings. Time slots matter too. However I would feel better if we were top 40.



Did you see Big12 was 5th? BSU #55, USU #71, U #73. Northern Ill was #58 with their winning.

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Also consider the channel it was on. ESPNU gets poor ratings. Time slots matter too. However I would feel better if we were top 40.



Did you see Big12 was 5th? BSU #55, USU #71, U #73. Northern Ill was #58 with their winning.

This is a great point. It's seems like the number of rated games would factor in more for the final ranking.



For instance, #57 BYU was on national TV 9 times. Including BYU, there were 27 teams with 9 or more games with TV ratings. 11 teams ranked ahead of BYU only played 4-5 rated games.



Compare to #28 North Carolina, who was on national TV only 4 times. BYU averaged 1,129,444 TV viewers. Over 9 games, that's over 10 million. North Carolina averaged 2,244,500 TV viewers. Over 4 games, that's 8.9 million, fewer than BYU's total. And my hunch is that the best rating for UNC, by far, was against South Carolina on Thursday, August 29, the opening night for college football.



Isn't the very fact that BYU is broadcast twice as much UNC a strong indication that BYU has more value than UNC?



Am I overlooking something. Isn't BYU actually hurt in these rankings by having games broadcast on ESPNU and BYUTV? (Even though the actual effect is the opposite - more exposure for BYU).



Also, I'm pretty sure the Big 12's perceived value was diminished for the same reason. The Big 12 had more rated games that the Big 10, ACC, and PAC 12, but a lot of those games are on FS1, like Iowa St. v. Baylor and TCU v. Kansas. If you take those games out, the Big 12 score actually goes up. That's where the average ratings aren't the best indicator of actual value.



I would have thought the fact that the Big 12 had 149,520,332 total viewers over the course of the season would carry more weight. Compare that to the PAC 12, which only had 76 games and 133 million total viewers.

It said we had 9 games. They did not count the KBYUtv game. Which others did not get counted?

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It said we had 9 games. They did not count the KBYUtv game. Which others did not get counted?

Houston was on espn news. Nevada was on CBS College Sports or

whatever it is called now.



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