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Originally Posted by Bambi
Of course the college football games are going to be rated higher during the regular season. THERE ARE 12 OF THEM.
You're not spreading a team around playing as much as 3-4 times in a week like they do for college basketball. If Kansas, Duke, UNC, Kentucky, etc all played on Saturday only 12 times the numbers would be much, much higher.
March rating are higher of course just like the NFL playoffs are higher than their regular season. Not to mention that CBB playoffs have to go against better weather in the spring which makes it more difficult to keep people inside watching games.
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Outside of tournament time to begin the season, CBB teams play twice a week. CFB teams play once a week. I understand the difference in number of games, but don't pretend that the numbers don't support CFB being a better draw by casting off scheduling as an exuse. The numbers for weekend basketball games, even prime ones against ranked opponents still PALE in comparison to the TV sets watching football. And weather? Seriously? You're reaching, little doe.
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College Football has all the benefits of prime TV viewing. Fact is that a few programs in both sports command big numbers. Otherwise 0-2.0 ratings are very common for everything. Just look at this years college football postseason.
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You must have missed the part where 80% of CBB games register under 600k viewers or less, a 0.0-0.4 rating. Don't expand that number to 2.0, because a 2.0 rating is a pretty decent rating. It's a number that college basketball surpassed only 9 times in the entire season this year.
So again, show me some numbers that support that people care about CBB before the 3rd weekend in March.