Running CFB playoff thread

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/20...ball,predecessor the Bowl Championship Series.

"Per Sports TV Ratings, viewership for the game peaked at 22.37 million from 8:30-8:45 PM ET, dropped below 20 million at 9:15 and dwindled to just 10.3 million in the final quarter-hour (10:45-11 PM).

They gave a shit from 8:30-8:45, it seems.

BTW, Alabama vs. Georgia in 2018 had 28.4 million viewers, 3.3 million MORE than Michigan-Washington.
But 3 subsequent Alabama appearances and two by Georgia gave fans a little Tide-Dawg fatigue.

 

So, even at peak viewership a game involving a Texas team other than UT or A&M attracted three million fewer eyeballs than the average of Washington-Michigan. Like I said, nobody anywhere cares much about TCU.

 

Same thing explains why it just occurred to me that the committee met near Dallas and considered its toughest call to be whether to invite or exclude a Dallas team.

 

Because 30 angry SMU fans would have ubered to the site of the selection show and protested had the Ponies not been included?

Pretty simple reason to keep Alabama out. You can lose to Vandy, or Oklahoma, but not both.

 

Ultimately, the committee had to decide whom to punish and why.
Option 1: Punish SMU for having no wins vs. Top 25.
Option 2: Punish SMU for qualifying for and losing its conference championship game by three on a 56-yard FG on the last play.
Option 3: Punish Alabama for having two bad losses — one of them really bad.
In choosing the third, it was consistent with the philosophy that has governed college football rankings for decades: losses hurt more than wins help.

 

oh please. If this was last year all the fighting would be which 11-2 team gets in or left out. To say nothing of the fact that an 11-1 Indiana would be totally dismissed.

16 is coming — ranked in total regardless of conference finish and top 8 host first round

 

I was really glad they found a way to have Indiana play Notre Dame. Hoosiers v. Rudy.

 

You may be right. College football will be the worse for it. And I have no problem with leaving an 11-2 team out.

 

Is this the first Notre Dame home game not on NBC since that contract got signed?

 

CBS, especially after ESPN scooped them on the brackets one year, gets into bracketology quickly. The WWL does the same on the reveals for baseball and softball. I guess with this being so new, they felt a need to explain it all a couple of times, then show off the eye candy outside the war rooms, before getting into it.

 

They did. They left out Miami. They also left out an 11-1 team whose only loss is to their No. 6 seed.

my point is: if it was just four again it’s Oregon and then which three? The same issues come up