Crappy Championship Game Ratings Help UConn

[methodology]

Actually, no they don't. Nielsen is household based. So your point that the ratings were somehow bolstered by people watching in bars (see below) is wrong.

Ok I was under the impression they were unable to differentiate.

Can you explain how they count streaming online phone tablet etc. Cause I'm pretty sure they can't calculate those numbers effectively and there has been a huge increase in people using those options to watch games compared to 2010 when there wasn't even an option to watch any espn telecast on your phone tablet or computer

 

[CL82]

Ok I was under the impression they were unable to differentiate.

Can you explain how they count streaming online phone tablet etc. Cause I'm pretty sure they can't calculate those numbers effectively and there has been a huge increase in people using those options to watch games compared to 2010 when there wasn't even an option to watch any espn telecast on your phone tablet or computer

You can find pretty much all your answers here

 

[Nostical]

Those numbers tell me that the center of the college football universe is Atlanta

Hence the attraction of Ga Tech to the B1G.

 

[upstater]

Hence the attraction of Ga Tech to the B1G.

Maybe, but what I think it means is that Atlanta is the business center of the southeast. It attracts grads from all the southeastern states.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Those numbers tell me that the center of the college football universe is Atlanta and parts of Tennessee. You can draw a 250 mile triangle from Atlanta to Nashville then over to Knoxville, or heck, Birmingham is even closer to Atlanta. Draw a square. SW corner Birmingham-Tuscaloosa. NW Nashville. NE Knoxville. SE Atlanta. And there you have more viewers per square foot than anywhere else.

Right. That was the analysis given (not my analysis. The analysis I linked). The South will watch in heavy numbers regardless of teams. The Northeast Midwest, Southwest and Left Coast need a reason to watch. A double Bubba strategy worked for Clinton/Gore in 1992 but it's not the oath forward for TV viewership. Markets matter. FSU to SEC type scenarios or Houston to Big12 fly in the face of college football market strategy.