CFP ratings down bad for championship

[Whips-n-Chains]

Another ratings thread from our Coli digital marketing and brand partnership team

CFB is dying

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

8 might be the number fellas.

Anyone with a functioning brain knows this and has been saying so since the beginning. They're gonna kill off interests in the sport in the way the NBA (at worse) or the MLB (at best) where no one cares about the overall product and only tunes in for their team only.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Anyone with a functioning brain knows this and has been saying so since the beginning. They're gonna kill off interests in the sport in the way the NBA (at worse) or the MLB (at best) where no one cares about the overall product and only tunes in for their team only.

Yea...it'll go to 16 before it goes to 8, unfortunately.

 

[Soldier]

It's not the brands or game....it's timing.

Playing the Natty on January 20th is dumb. You got MLK Day hoops. Plus, most people have mentally moved on from CFB by the end of the first week in January.

They gotta start the season a little earlier and make it so the Natty takes place between Jan 1 and maybe Jan 7th. Once you get past that, it's all about NFL playoffs and people checking on on college and NBA hoops.

NFL playoffs, NBA’s regular season, college basketball, NHL hockey regular season.

There is too much sports competition for CFB in January. It’s really Bad timing.

 

[Piff Perkins]

It's not the brands or game....it's timing.

Playing the Natty on January 20th is dumb. You got MLK Day hoops. Plus, most people have mentally moved on from CFB by the end of the first week in January.

They gotta start the season a little earlier and make it so the Natty takes place between Jan 1 and maybe Jan 7th. Once you get past that, it's all about NFL playoffs and people checking on on college and NBA hoops.

While I agree the problem is that the expanded playoffs demand a longer schedule for games, and most of the games were not engaging. And I don't think the ehhh ratings really matter to the committee in the context of more games = more advertisement = more money.

The bye week teams had was ridiculous. PSU played in the first round on December 21st, then didn't play their next game until December 31st. Ten days. Why lol.

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

The South/SEC fans said fukk it

Nah,break it down the south’s TVs always on football.

 

[tremonthustler1]

While I agree the problem is that the expanded playoffs demand a longer schedule for games, and most of the games were not engaging. And I don't think the ehhh ratings really matter to the committee in the context of more games = more advertisement = more money.

The bye week teams had was ridiculous. PSU played in the first round on December 21st, then didn't play their next game until December 31st. Ten days. Why lol.

They struggled with wanting weekend games for TV but also with trying to schedule the games on New Year's Eve/Day where a game like the Rose Bowl is set in stone.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

They struggled with wanting weekend games for TV but also with trying to schedule the games on New Year's Eve/Day where a game like the Rose Bowl is set in stone.

There were times when the Rose Bowl wasn't played on the 1st back in the BCS era (2006), or if it falls on a Sunday... but ya the rose going to pitch a fit if it has to be worked around.

 

[KingsnBucs1987]

We gotta move on from wasting an entire saturday with Army/Navy. Not only does no one give a fukk about that game, but it can potentially have playoff implications. Like you said, they should start with the first round, that weekend right after CCG, and then the winner of the conference won't have some stupid long layoff before they have to play again, b/c that was clearly no benefit as all the teams with a bye, lost.

Why not just have Army/Navy play to kick off the season, that way it opens up that last week for playoffs to start.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Both teams got no motion if we being honest

If only Ohio State had the motion USC had this season

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Why not just have Army/Navy play to kick off the season, that way it opens up that last week for playoffs to start.

Move it where ever...I won't be watching regardless

Make it week 0 so it it gets the full attention if they want, but where it is now is just a pure waste of time.

 

[KingsnBucs1987]

Move it where ever...I won't be watching regardless

Make it week 0 so it it gets the full attention if they want, but where it is now is just a pure waste of time.

I'm honestly surprised they don't have it week 0, ain't like there's any other big game that week. Have all the patriotic shyt at the beginning of the season so the the playoffs end the week of New Year's

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

I'm honestly surprised they don't have it week 0, ain't like there's any other big game that week. Have all the patriotic shyt at the beginning of the season so the the playoffs end the week of New Year's

It's b/c that game has been played late Nov/early Dec for a 130+ years. They might not want to change it being played late in the season, which is on them, but it 100% doesn't need its own weekend.

If they need their own weekend, make it week 0

If they want to keep the traditional date range (this year was the latest start in that game's history), then make it the same weekend as conf cg and deal with the fact no one will be watching.

CFP was dragging on when it was 4 teams...but now it's getting absurd with the season going this late into Jan.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I know all you wolverine fans in here watched the game, so y'all need to shut the fúck up about some ratings


When Ohio State destroyed Oregon, who many felt was the best team in the nation, and rightfully so, it was a forgone conclusion that Ohio State was going to win it all.

USC needs to be good. Imagine a Buckeye/Trojan title game

 

[Trav]

If only Ohio State had the motion USC had this season

Live look at SC motion: