Blue Blood - does Florida qualify?

[auror]

College Basketball TV Ratings: Tracking the most-watched men's teams of the 2025-26 season

On3 is tracking the most-watched teams in college basketball during the 2025-26 season, according to data compiled by Nielsen.

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MSU is #1 due to their schedule

Interesting, thanks for the link. Obviously the top 4 are teams that played games with holiday NFL lead-ins (but bigger brands on their own), but a great list to be on.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

That would be why now? And are you doing that for every sport? Just want to understand how to tell Yankee fans that the 1927 yanks don’t really count.

Do I really have to explain why any World Series title before Jackie Robinson deserves an asterisk?

Old college basketball titles, as I mentioned above, have the following issues:

1) Prior to the early 60’s many conferences had “gentlemen’s agreements” about how many black players teams could have.

2) the NCAA tournament had many structural issues prior to the mid 70s that made it not really a true national championship.

3) prior to the latter half of the 60s, the best eastern and independent teams often preferred the NIT because of the New York media. Marquette, in 1970, was the last team to turn down an NCAA bid to play in the NIT.

 

[Lafayette]

Do I really have to explain why any World Series title before Jackie Robinson deserves an asterisk?

Old college basketball titles, as I mentioned above, have the following issues:

1) Prior to the early 60’s many conferences had “gentlemen’s agreements” about how many black players teams could have.

2) the NCAA tournament had many structural issues prior to the mid 70s that made it not really a true national championship.

3) prior to the latter half of the 60s, the best eastern and independent teams often preferred the NIT because of the New York media. Marquette, in 1970, was the last team to turn down an NCAA bid to play in the NIT.

Baseball has many ghosts but the expansion of teams added more rounds and thus more postseason stat records so as amazing as the 1927 Yankees were they don’t hold many postseason records for the lack of rounds.

For college hoops the NIT has faded and the NCAA has expanded but winning with 4 games played is the equiv of UConn getting a bye until the Elite 8. Kinda silly to hold 1968 and prior NCAA titles with the same merit as today. Plus UCLA had byes so were always in the dance.

But as said the Morrill act gave land to many blue bloods and their sustained attendance, alums, boosters and money lend to chalk and talk of exclusion of others (e.g. us) while holding onto whatever “blue blood” definition they want.

Reeks of the same stuff of privilege and many other names.

 

[twiceahusky]

Yesterday on KY’s fan board under the title:

The five blue blood programs and their current head coaching career winning percentages (no surprise, Pope is dead last).​

I guess poster Son_Of_Saul has spoken … we are NOT a blue blood!

 

[storrsroars]

Yesterday only KY’s fan board under the title:

The five blue blood programs and their current head coaching career winning percentages (no surprise, Pope is dead last).​

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I guess poster Son_Of_Saul has spoken … we are NOT a blue blood!

We're Larry Ellison.

 

[uconnfan68]

We didn’t have espn pimping us 24/7 and we weren’t giving jobs and big houses to the parents of 5*’s.

And didn’t get multiple home games every tournament.

 

[Devland]

I hate this whole blue blood thing. Maybe because I hate history. I don't even watch game replays. I just want to win the next one.

 

[twiceahusky]

I hate this whole blue blood thing. Maybe because I hate history. I don't even watch game replays. I just want to win the next one.