P5 conference to see how many conference games each conference drew for 4 million viewers or more

 

Since 2012, college football viewership has already been "operating" in a P2 world. The SEC and Big Ten dominate college football for conference games that draw 4 million viewers or more.

THAT is why the Big Ten and SEC get paid the big dollars and nobody else

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— Big Ten information. College football fan (@Genetics56) May 29, 2023

Since 2012, college football viewership has already been "operating" in a P2 world. The SEC and Big Ten dominate college football for conference games that draw 4 million viewers or more. THAT is why the Big Ten and SEC get paid the big dollars and nobody else As part of the university evaluations study that I am doing, I ran the data for all conference games for each P5 conference to see how many conference games each conference drew for 4 million viewers or more. Final results: SEC: 128 Big Ten: 120 ACC: 24 Big 12: 24 Pac 12: 17 The Pac-12, without USC, they don't reach double digits for games that reach 4 million viewers or more. If you want to know why the Pac-12 can't get a tv deal done, that is why. That is your answer. For the ACC, I pulled each conference game that drew 4 million viewers or more to see how often each ACC team appears in a conference game that draws in that viewership number. The results: Georgia Tech: 1 Virginia Tech: 1 Clemson: 13 Florida State: 15 Miami: 5 Pitt: 3 Syracuse: 5 BC: 1 NC State: 3 Lou: 1 UNC: 1 No other ACC teams. If you are wondering how many games for BC, Syra, and others that were involved in a game with 4 million viewers or more that were games against Florida State and Clemson, most of them were. I did not include ACC games that involved Notre Dame. Since ND classifies as an independent, I wanted to keep this study apples-to-apples. If ND were included in the ACC numbers, the number jumps to over 35.

ND's TV ratings for the past ten years

Here are ND's TV ratings for the past ten years (Covid year removed). ND's ratings versus ACC schools are in bold. There are a cluster of them near the bottom.

(Taken from a Big Ten homer on Twitter whose thesis is that playing ACC schools hurts ND's ratings and that those would increase if ND played Big Ten schools instead.)

Here is the link to his tweet: https://twitter.com/Genetics56/status/16...3955528709

13.25MND vs FSU

10.945M ND vs Texas
10.53M ND vs OSU

9.29M ND vs UGA

8.65M NDvs Michigan
8.091MMICH-ND

7.83MND-USC
7.75M ND vs FSU
7.64MNotre Dame vs Clemson
7.31MNotre Dame vs Stanford

6.75M ND vs MICH
6.75M ND vs MICH
6.737M Notre Dame vs Miami
6.68 ND vs USC
6.36 WI vs ND

5.97MNotre Dame vs Temple
5.69M Notre Dame vs USC
5.60M ND vs LOU
5.26M Notre Dame Stanford

4.987M ND vs Michigan State
4.79M Michigan State vs Notre Dame
4.79M Notre Dame vs Purdue
4.73M Michigan vs Notre Dame
4.67M Notre Dame/A rizona State
4.47M ND-VT
4.08M Georgia Notre Dame
4.06M Texas Notre Dame
4.05M Notre Dame/Syracuse

3.95MUSC Notre Dame
3.89MNotre Dame/Navy
3.89M OklahomaNotre Dame
3.84MNotre Dame Pittsburgh
3.80M Cincy vs ND
3.72MNotre Dame N.C. State
3.70M Georgia Tech Notre Dame
3.68MArizona StateNotre Dame
3.46M USCNotre Dame
3.46MNotre Dame Michigan St.
3.46 ND vs NC
3.44MSTAN-ND
3.40MND vs Stanford
3.33M Stanford/Notre Dame
3.29MND-NWSTN
3.22M Clem vs ND
3.27M ND vs VA
3.21M ND vs STAN
3.20MNavy Notre Dame
3.17MFSU-ND
3.16M USC-ND
3.13M Purdue/Notre Dame
3.09M Louisville/Notre Dame
3.03M Notre DamePittsburgh

2.98MUSC Notre Dame
2.96MNorthwestern/Notre Dame
2.95M VT-ND
2.91M Cal vs ND
2.87MStanford Notre Dame
2.87MSYR-ND
2.86 USC vs ND
2.82MPITT-ND
2.82M UVA-Nd
2.74 ND vs Stan
2.63M Navy Notre Dame
2.63M Miami Notre Dame
2,62M N.C. State Notre Dame
2.62MDuke vs ND
2.58 Pur vs ND
2.56M Navy vs Notre Dame
2.53 BYU vs ND
2.50M Temple vs Notre Dame
2.50MNotre Dame UNC
2.48 Marshall vs ND
2.45MBALL-ND
2.45MNevada vs Notre Dame
2.44M ND vs Va. Tech
2.44M ND-Navy
2.43MND-Wake
2.42MNotre Dame vs Navy
2.34M UNC vs ND
2.34M ND vs Syra
2.29M BYUNotre Dame
2.15 Stan vs ND
2.108MVANDY-ND
2.10M Rice/Notre Dame
2.10M Notre Dame vs Syracuse
2.07 ND vs Navy
2.00M Notre Dame/USC

1.98MBoston Col. Notre Dame
1.94MWake Forest Notre Dame
1.96MUMass Notre Dame
1.90MWake Forest Notre Dame
1.86 Navy vs ND
1.779M Notre Dame Boston College
1.580MTemple Notre Dame
1.56M NAVY-ND
1.515MArmy vs Notre Dame
1.50MMiami (Oh.) Notre Dame
1.45 ND vs GA Tech
1.28M BGSU-ND
1.27M BC vs ND
1.11M BC-ND

798K NM-ND