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I forgot it was on and had other things to do. But one also needs, in fairness, to note that this was a game between two southeastern schools. So the base for this game was concentrated in one region. A Big 10 or Pac 10 team in the mix would have had a bigger audience, even if the other school was Bama.
 
The game just appealed to SEC fans. I look at Clemson as a pseudo-SEC team. I bet there was low interest for this game for anyone west of the Mississippi or north of the Mason-Dixon line.

Clemson ought to consider moving to the SEC. They are too good for the putrid ACC.
 
kgilbert78 said:
I forgot it was on and had other things to do. But one also needs, in fairness, to note that this was a game between two southeastern schools. So the base for this game was concentrated in one region. A Big 10 or Pac 10 team in the mix would have had a bigger audience, even if the other school was Bama.
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Good point. Also worth noting the playoff games were down significantly as well (no doubt due to the poor decision to have them on NYE). Still, I didn't miss it one bit but may have tuned in if there were a more compelling story-line than Nick Saban winning with the best players in college football....again.
 
C'mon, didn't everyone want to watch Bama win another one? If only to see whether the corners of Saban's mouth might turn up just a little at the end of the game? What a great spot for Lane Kiffin and Tosh Lupoi to coach. Too bad a lightning strike did not occur.
 
I watched the first half; started dozing listening to the announcing duo. Describe the game; forget the other nonsense.
 
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Midnighter said:
I didn't watch one minute of the game, and actually agree with Cowherd on this - the Bama dynasty is boring. Anyone else?

http://www.espnpgh.com/onair/producer-sean-56219/ratings-down-for-college-football-playoff-14268295/

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.@ColinCowherd: The #NationalChampionship rating shows the country is tired of Alabama's dominance. #HerdHere
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TV and the sponsors get their way. Period the end. This is not the only time a big event like this ends well past midnight.
How anything after 11pm EST sells I don't know. East coast has the most viewership.
That's why they cater sports to this time zone.
What they need to do is get the pomp and pageantry and pregame stuff out of the way between 7:30 and say 7:50.
Kick off has to be right at 8pm.
Don't know how pushing all that back 40 minutes helps sponsors.
Sunday, Monday and Thursday night NFL football the last 5 minutes take 30 minutes real time just to fit a sponsor in at 11:30pm.
Even if the game has been decided say 27-7 with 5 minutes left.
It behooves me why the NBA finals start at 9pm.

In all this you have lost a large segment of the audience. The kids.
 
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So that explains the trails of melted copper between Burbank and Bristol.
 
[QUOTE="RTLH, post: 1138371, member: 1866"]TV and the sponsors get their way. Period the end. This is not the only time a big event like this ends well past midnight.
How anything after 11pm EST sells I don't know. East coast has the most viewership.
That's why they cater sports to this time zone.
What they need to do is get the pomp and pageantry and pregame stuff out of the way between 7:30 and say 7:50.
Kick off has to be right at 8pm.
Don't know how pushing all that back 40 minutes helps sponsors.
Sunday, Monday and Thursday night NFL football the last 5 minutes take 30 minutes real time just to fit a sponsor in at 11:30pm.
Even if the game has been decided say 27-7 with 5 minutes left.
It behooves me why the NBA finals start at 9pm.

In all this you have lost a large segment of the audience. The kids.[/QUOTE]

TV and sponsors want declining ratings? That's some ground-breaking insight there, Kenneth.
 
psu1969a said:
I watched the first half; started dozing listening to the announcing duo. Describe the game; forget the other nonsense.
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Makes two of us. Painful to listen to Fowler when he become over-animated and Herbie is beginning to suffer (or make us suffer) from Tim McCarver Syndrome.
 
kgilbert78 said:
I forgot it was on and had other things to do. But one also needs, in fairness, to note that this was a game between two southeastern schools. So the base for this game was concentrated in one region. A Big 10 or Pac 10 team in the mix would have had a bigger audience, even if the other school was Bama.
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Bingo!

Need more than ONE region of the country with interest to have a large audience. U$C, Texa$, UM, tO$U etc.

Just wait until the finals involves TWO teams from the same conference in the finals! That will be the ultimate snooze-fest!
 
Midnighter said:
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because it was a great game played by two teams that showed how good college football can be

I could play homer and say it wasn't, or that they weren't both better than any team we've put on the field in years- but that wouldn't make it true

I hope and expect that a Penn State team will rise to that level before too many more years have passed
 
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I watch no games but ours and that is only out of loyalty. If I want to follow the activities of a corrupt organization like the NCAA, I would rather it be politics where the stakes are higher.
 
Midnighter said:
I didn't watch one minute of the game, and actually agree with Cowherd on this - the Bama dynasty is boring. Anyone else?

http://www.espnpgh.com/onair/producer-sean-56219/ratings-down-for-college-football-playoff-14268295/

Herd w/Colin Cowherd

✔@TheHerd
.@ColinCowherd: The #NationalChampionship rating shows the country is tired of Alabama's dominance. #HerdHere
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I watched about 3 minutes of game time (mid/late first half I think)... And was so bored with it I turned "Cops" on as background, picked up my laptop, and started doing work.

I don't think my boredom had anything to do with 'bama, specifically. I think, until we're a player, I just don't care who the college football national champion is anymore.
 
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I actually forgot about it until yesterday afternoon, still not used to the new championship schedule. Agree with the notion that another school from a different region would have increased viewership. Ohio State vs Alabama would have been a home run (oops wrong sport).

That being said, I am glad I watched the game, It was a good one and what the big game should be. Disappointed that Bama won, I thought Clemson was going to start pouring it on and then Watson threw that INT and suddenly its a tie game.
 
thecoolestfish said:
I watched about 3 minutes of game time (mid/late first half I think)... And was so bored with it I turned "Cops" on as background, picked up my laptop, and started doing work.

I don't think my boredom had anything to do with 'bama, specifically. I think, until we're a player, I just don't care who the college football national champion is anymore.
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Then you missed a really great game. Not sure why you would only give it 3 minutes.
 
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I watched it but could there have been two teams that fewer people outside of their own states cared about? I watched with a large group of people and no one cared who won. I've never talked to so many people about a big game where the response was that they really didn't like or dislike either team. It was a great game but it was tough to get excited about either team.
 
It's basically Pro Football. They can call it whatever they want. Nothing special to see leads to nothing special ratings. When the NFL is forced to develop their own minor league system and the ncaa is forced back into managing actual student athletes, maybe I'll care. Maybe there will be some good story lines then.
 
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Then you missed a really great game. Not sure why you would only give it 3 minutes.
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I actually think I'm losing interest in the game (football) itself. Unless the Steelers (who I actually watched very very little of this year, until this most recent playoff game), Penn State, or VT (where my wife went to school) is playing, I just don't seem to care anymore.

It's not a boycott -- I actually watched a decent amount of the two semi-final games, though they were just kinda background noise.

It might have been a fantastic game, but as fairgambit has been saying about himself, I'm just finding myself more interested in doing other things these days. As I said to him, it's a strange feeling that is hard to explain. I still really enjoy watching PSU football -- and Steeler and VT football to a lesser extent -- but other football games aren't much more interesting to me any more so than the Bravo shows that my wife watches.
 
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MtNittany said:
It's basically Pro Football. They can call it whatever they want. Nothing special to see leads to nothing special ratings. When the NFL is forced to develop their own minor league system and the ncaa is forced back into managing actual student athletes, maybe I'll care. Maybe there will be some good story lines then.
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That's not going to happen, I don't think. Unless a bunch of college athletic programs go bankrupt. The Ivys tried--and no one followed.
 
It obviously was a great game, specifically half two, which I missed due to sleeping to go to work the next day. If PSU or another team I was interested in was in the game, I would have stayed up longer. Ad dollars do lead to a later start time, but so does the fact that its in AZ. A lack of national team to play bama hurt too, Clemson in only SC area. Add in all those things and thats why the ratings are down.
 
thecoolestfish said:
I actually think I'm losing interest in the game (football) itself. Unless the Steelers (who I actually watched very very little of this year, until this most recent playoff game), Penn State, or VT (where my wife went to school) is playing, I just don't seem to care anymore.

It's not a boycott -- I actually watched a decent amount of the two semi-final games, though they were just kinda background noise.

It might have been a fantastic game, but as fairgambit has been saying about himself, I'm just finding myself more interested in doing other things these days. As I said to him, it's a strange feeling that is hard to explain. I still really enjoy watching PSU football -- and Steeler and VT football to a lesser extent -- but other football games aren't much more interesting to me any more so than the Bravo shows that my wife watches.
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Fair enough.
Try "Making a Murderer" on netflix. Way better than that Bravo crap and your wife may enjoy it. It's not a blood and guts show like you may gather from the title.
 
Nitt1300 said:
It was a great game. Anyone who pretends to be a football fan should have watched it.
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Maybe that's my problem. At one time I was a football fan. Now I am just a Penn State football fan. If I had been given 2 free tickets to the game on the 50, I would given them away. When I look back on all the Toledo/Bowling Green, or Kansas/Missouri type games I watched over 40 years, it makes me sick. So much wasted time for what? At one time football dominated my life. No longer. That said, I don't look down my nose at those who watch as often as I once did. Life is all about choices. If someone enjoys the sport, who am I to judge?
 
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Maybe that's my problem. At one time I was a football fan. Now I am just a Penn State football fan. If I had been given 2 free tickets to the game on the 50, I would given them away. When I look back on all the Toledo/Bowling Green, or Kansas/Missouri type games I watched over 40 years, it makes me sick. So much wasted time for what? At one time football dominated my life. No longer. That said, I don't look down my nose at those who watch as often as I once did. Life is all about choices. If someone enjoys the sport, who am I to judge?
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I'm right there with you (and thecoolestfish). Wouldn't call it a "problem" so much as a re-prioritization, and not even a conscious one speaking for myself. In recent years the only NFL game I've watched in its entirety is the Super Bowl and even then because it was more of a social event and not a complete waste of time. 10-15 years ago if Penn State lost a game, any game, I would be down for the rest of the weekend and lived or died by how the team played. What a terrible thing to give sway over your happiness.
I still want PSU football to succeed, and I still follow the team, recruiting, this god-forsaken message board, and I catch all the games at least in part (thank you DVR), it just seems to have found its proper equilibrium in my life. Well all except this board. :D
 
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I think the game happens too late in the season. By Jan 11, everyone is at least a week removed from paying attention to college football because their season is over, except for the 2 remaining teams. I think the NCAA might benefit from moving the semifinals to earlier in the bowl season, and moving the final to sometime closer to Jan 1. I pretty much stop getting excited for games after the Jan 1 bowl games. Obviously if I were a Bama or Clemson fan it would be different, but for the casual fan waiting an extra 10+ days (far more days if your team isn't in a bowl, or plays an early one), is just too much time to sustain interest unless you have a personal stake in the game.
 
Art said:
[QUOTE="RTLH, post: 1138371, member: 1866"]TV and the sponsors get their way. Period the end. This is not the only time a big event like this ends well past midnight.
How anything after 11pm EST sells I don't know. East coast has the most viewership.
That's why they cater sports to this time zone.
What they need to do is get the pomp and pageantry and pregame stuff out of the way between 7:30 and say 7:50.
Kick off has to be right at 8pm.
Don't know how pushing all that back 40 minutes helps sponsors.
Sunday, Monday and Thursday night NFL football the last 5 minutes take 30 minutes real time just to fit a sponsor in at 11:30pm.
Even if the game has been decided say 27-7 with 5 minutes left.
It behooves me why the NBA finals start at 9pm.

In all this you have lost a large segment of the audience. The kids.
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TV and sponsors want declining ratings? That's some ground-breaking insight there, Kenneth.[/QUOTE]
Their getting it weather they want it or not.
 
MtNittany said:
It's basically Pro Football. They can call it whatever they want. Nothing special to see leads to nothing special ratings. When the NFL is forced to develop their own minor league system and the ncaa is forced back into managing actual student athletes, maybe I'll care. Maybe there will be some good story lines then.
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I think you are exactly right. This is the NFL. College football ??????? Who , What , Where ?
The game was NOT fun.
 
Sviatoslav said:
I'm right there with you (and thecoolestfish). Wouldn't call it a "problem" so much as a re-prioritization, and not even a conscious one speaking for myself. In recent years the only NFL game I've watched in its entirety is the Super Bowl and even then because it was more of a social event and not a complete waste of time. 10-15 years ago if Penn State lost a game, any game, I would be down for the rest of the weekend and lived or died by how the team played. What a terrible thing to give sway over your happiness.
I still want PSU football to succeed, and I still follow the team, recruiting, this god-forsaken message board, and I catch all the games at least in part (thank you DVR), it just seems to have found its proper equilibrium in my life. Well all except this board. :D
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I thought you were describing me :)
 
Midnighter said:
I didn't watch one minute of the game, and actually agree with Cowherd on this - the Bama dynasty is boring. Anyone else?

http://www.espnpgh.com/onair/producer-sean-56219/ratings-down-for-college-football-playoff-14268295/

Herd w/Colin Cowherd

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.@ColinCowherd: The #NationalChampionship rating shows the country is tired of Alabama's dominance. #HerdHere
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That's the thing with dynasties...great if you are a fan of that team...boring for everyone else.
 
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I wonder if some of it is due to cord cutters. I got rid of cable in 2014. After I got back into town from visiting family this Christmas, near the end of Dec 2015, I didn't watch a single down of college football. It wasn't because I was avoiding it. I just didn't see any on the major networks and I don't have cable. If I had cable I would have had games on constantly, whether I was watching them or whether I was doing other stuff around the house while looking in now and then to see what's happening. But instead I didn't watch a down and furthermore I didn't miss it.

If the only option to watch these games is to use lousy ESPN provided by an even lousier cable monopoly, I can live without it. And the thing that those providing their programs mainly via cable need to realize is that, once you start living without watching a program it can become a habit.

I did get Sling TV purposely just for college football season (ESPN, ESPN2 and about 15 other channels for $20 per month) but it worked terribly, constantly getting hung up and lagging so I got rid of it after two months.
 
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