Posted on 01/02/2016 7:29:44 AM PST by C19fan
The college football public has spoken loudly: New Years Eve is not a popular choice for the College Football Playoff semifinals.
ESPN drew 18,552,000 viewers for its Cotton Bowl broadcast of Alabama’s 38–0 win over Michigan State, while the Orange Bowl matchup featuring Clemson’s 37–17 victory over Oklahoma drew 15,640,000 viewers. Both playoff games last year drew just over 28 million viewers. The first playoff semifinal was down 45% in viewership versus last year; the late semifinal was down 34.4%.
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The Beautiful People Division, which serves a similar purpose (generally sans the violence) is currently headed by some Armenian American Princess named Kim Kardashian. She is known for the substantial size of her gluteus maximus muscles, so large they have been assigned their own zip code and are believed to have an independent weather system. As is the case with the Heavyweight Division, watching and reading about the comings and goings of the members of this division is also believed to enhance the lives of the average citizen.
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Tell espn: I......DON’T......CARE.
There, I fell better.
What was wrong with New Year’s Day? I was out at a party on NYE, and put the games on DVR, although the 2nd one was over before the half. I am a big time CF fan, but I am not going to change social plans to stay home for it. ONLY the Super Bowl deserves that — it IS a social occasion.
Yeah, the games were uninteresting.
The commentators could have helped if they were outstanding, but they were far from that.
...heres YOUR courage award.
Bingo.
ESPN is the most PC liberal sports broadcaster possible. The evil empire of sports will do its best to ruin football and any other contact sport. They’ll have michael Sams kissing other players between plays as they adjust their balloon suits and flags! When they kicked off a commentater for telling a basic truths about muslims, that’s all I need to know.
Bingo.
I can't disagree. I've been a fan all my life, but have grown bored with it lately for the reasons you posted.
I agree, I do not understand why they scheduled the games for NYE. I remember seeing an article last summer where they were trying to reschedule the games but the BCS committee would not allow it.
“, but move up the start time slightly earlier than 5 pm EST. “
That’s not going to happen. An earlier start would interfere with that little parade that is Pasadena’s other main attraction. Traffic is tough enough without a breather between the two.
Flow here attributing this to everything from Brice Jenner to decline of football to cable cutting, but this is simply stupidity on display putting two critical games on a night when people are doing things other than sitting on the couch. Many are working at 4pm central on NYE or getting ready for parties, nights out, early events with kids, etc. on a year where New Years was a Friday and with an open day on Saturday, this was simply terrible, terrible planning by college football. They could have had two full days of nonstop big games yesterday and today.
‘Flow’ equals ‘folks’ above. Damn autocorrect.
Really?? I thought the Rose Bowl would be on Monday January 2nd in years where New Year’s Day in a Sunday? Interesting scheduling.
So did I but when I did a search that’s what I found.
Bob Cost as works for NBC dumbass.
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