Houston vs. OU

[Dooley]

The most important thing to come out of Houston's win yesterday is the TV rating it drew. That's an astronomical local number, which is what UH is selling. Dallas-Fort Worth drew a huge local too.

Houston:
Okla-Hou: 4.0 overnight & 12.8 in Houston, market’s highest rating for an opening weekend cfb game across ESPN nets

Did a quick lookup. That Houston-OU 12.8 TV number in Houston bigger than any regular-season or New Year's Six CFB game last year in market.

DFW:
DFW Saturday Ratings:
Oklahoma/Houston 7.3
Alabama/USC 5.2
UCLA/Texas A&M 5.0
LSU/Wisconsin 5.0
Astros/Rangers 3.4
SDakSt/TCU 2.0

Houston’s triumph over OU a winner in the ratings, too

Point is: if you don't go to UConn football games, you have to at least turn your TVs/streaming devices to the game. 29K crowds and low TV ratings will not help our cause whatsoever when Houston posts up numbers like that (and yes, a large number of OU fans are certainly embedded in these numbers).

BYU also drew over 30K fans to Phoenix last night. They had so many fans there that it sounded like a home game for BYU...in Phoenix...against Arizona. I don't know the rating it drew but I imagine it will be 2nd behind UH/OU of the B12 candidates.

 

[Nostical]

If you don't go to UConn football games, you have to at least turn your TVs/streaming devices to the game. 29K crowds and low TV ratings will not help our cause whatsoever when Houston posts up numbers like that.
BYU had so many fans (in Phoenix) that it sounded like a home game for BYU against Arizona.

Amen, brother. As for BYU they can count on lots of local Mormons coming out in many western venues to watch the Cougars. That's one of their main attractions to networks.
We need to step up or we'll deserve exactly the unthinkable outcome we fear.