ESPN Might Have To Give Away $20 Mill In Free Ads Due To Horrible College Football Playoff Ratings

[Darth Nubian]

This will quietly be changed in the spring. The almighty dollar trumps all.

 

[Slim]

They got a rude awakening because one of the few things that trumps football in this country is debauchery

They could've moved it to the 2nd of January. I was drunk before I even knew a game was on tv.

 

[mozichrome]

I watched the games on NYE

 

[red222]

I watched the games on NYE

I was at work

 

[Savior]

I dont fukk with college football like that so obviously I didnt watch the games much outside the first half of Clemson OU. Viewers like me that only watch big games aint gonna go out of their way to watch the games on NYE. Thats their L to take

 

[the artist known az]

The matchups were horrible this year as well. MSU had no business in the playoff

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Put 2 playoff games on NYE brehs

Yeah, if it isn't your team then fukk it. The committee is a stupid for being adamant about NYE.

But I think the Rose Bowl refuses to move off New Years. A lot of fukkery.

 

[Leasy]

Expand the playoffs

 

[Easy-E]

ESPN is the biggest TV network by a wiiiiiidddddddeeeee margin and they are too greedy.

The downfall of this company will be expanding unnecessarily.

 

[Warren Moon]

I was fighting with my girl all night tryin to watch these games.

Even paid for tickets to skip the line for New Years. Thank god Alabama got up so much otherwise I probably wouldn't have a chick right now.

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

The thing is these old motherfukkers don't give a shyt about the ratings or ESPN losing money or anything.They got that Masters tournament mentality.If you don't want to air it they'll find someone who will.Kick rocks.

I didn't even watch the Bama game live.I was catching updates on the gamecast thing on espn.com from my girls phone.I've watched the replay about 4 times now though.Hope they change it but i bet they don't.

 

[The ADD]

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Slowly building.......

 

[Rekkapryde]

ESPN paid $5.64 billion for the right to air the playoffs until 2025....and they have no say in the scheduling of the games. Think about the sheer lunacy of that decision.

Then they followed up that amazing coup by paying more than a billion per year for the right to air NBA games whose ratings have been steadily declining in spite of (or perhaps because of) increased product.

All the money they "save" by firing on-air talent is a drop in the bucket compared to the massive avalanche of those two terrible decisions.

The NBA one was merely a case of if we don't keep the NBA then NBCSN or CBSSN or Fox Sports 1 will take it from us. They had to or their winter lineups would be more World Series of Poker and Strongman like back in the day.

 

[daemonova]

someone said it earlier, the Rose Bowl refuses to move off New Years Day, so it would have to be a permanent playoff game in order for you to get what you want

 

[Rekkapryde]

College will never play on Sundays. It's a bill or something. Either way you don't wanna piss off the nfl

Things change, especially when the NCAA is your free minor league

But nah, they won't do that. It's their unwritten handshake deal