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Official CU vs. Baylor Game Thread

Buffnik said:
Yeah. On the merits of "unranked Baylor vs unranked Colorado on network tv", that game should have pulled about 1.5M and, honestly, should not have been network while being lucky to draw 1M.
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I'm not sure where 3.6M for CU/Baylor will rank among other week 4 contests, but for context:
  • CU/CSU was 3.25M and the 5th most viewed game that week
  • CU/Neb was 5.67M and the 2nd most viewed game that week
  • CU/NDSU was 4.67M and the 4th most viewed game that week (5th if you include Week 0 with Week 1)
Other teams that have finished in the top 5 every week so far: None

Notre Dame was close; they were top 5 week 1 and 2 and got 7th in week 3 for their matchup with Purdue. Georgia probably has more overall viewers, as does LSU.

Examples of games with ~1.5M viewership so far this season: TCU/Stanford, Virginia Tech v. Vanderbilt, Temple v. Oklahoma, Western Michigan v. Ohio State, UTSA v. Texas, FSU v. Memphis, Tulane v. Oklahoma.
 
Denver_sc said:
I'm not sure where 3.6M for CU/Baylor will rank among other week 4 contests, but for context:
  • CU/CSU was 3.25M and the 5th most viewed game that week
  • CU/Neb was 5.67M and the 2nd most viewed game that week
  • CU/NDSU was 4.67M and the 4th most viewed game that week (5th if you include Week 0 with Week 1)
Other teams that have finished in the top 5 every week so far: None

Notre Dame was close; they were top 5 week 1 and 2 and got 7th in week 3 for their matchup with Purdue. Georgia probably has more overall viewers, as does LSU.

Examples of games with ~1.5M viewership so far this season: TCU/Stanford, Virginia Tech v. Vanderbilt, Temple v. Oklahoma, Western Michigan v. Ohio State, UTSA v. Texas, FSU v. Memphis, Tulane v. Oklahoma.
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I'd guess that Michigan is probably #1 right now. Its game vs UT drew almost 10M and the USC game had to have also pulled a big number.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
Another top 5 viewed game and 1.5m viewers more than ranked Big 12 matchup between Oklahoma State and Utah

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1838722497568501763
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I also see B1G numbers looking stronger than SEC numbers. Makes me think that the SEC, which only has 14 teams and has consistently looked to broaden footprint when expanding, might come calling if CU keeps delivering high ratings. I know they want UNC and UVA. After that, the dividing line of B1G vs SEC territory really points to KU, CU, Utah and ASU/UA.
 
Buffnik said:
I also see B1G numbers looking stronger than SEC numbers. Makes me think that the SEC, which only has 14 teams and has consistently looked to broaden footprint when expanding, might come calling if CU keeps delivering high ratings. I know they want UNC and UVA. After that, the dividing line of B1G vs SEC territory really points to KU, CU, Utah and ASU/UA.
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I really, really hope the conferences just stop getting bigger. Can we just go back to thinking it was trying for a 16 team conference that doomed the WAC?
 
Robert Sorell said:
I really, really hope the conferences just stop getting bigger. Can we just go back to thinking it was trying for a 16 team conference that doomed the WAC?
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Little different with an elite national conference that networks put their resources behind. They love CFB becoming a national sport instead of a regional sport. Oregon vs Penn State draws a bigger audience than Oregon vs Washington despite the latter being a more intense matchup.
 
Buffnik said:
I also see B1G numbers looking stronger than SEC numbers. Makes me think that the SEC, which only has 14 teams and has consistently looked to broaden footprint when expanding, might come calling if CU keeps delivering high ratings. I know they want UNC and UVA. After that, the dividing line of B1G vs SEC territory really points to KU, CU, Utah and ASU/UA.
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We have to have a 3-5 year plan in place right now to keep Prime and get to either the SEC or B1G. The Big12 is too weak for us to remain at the higher numbers. A really good CU team led by Prime vs the big boys would pull monster numbers. Without that plan, we will be back to the PAC12
 
4BienemyTDs said:
We have to have a 3-5 year plan in place right now to keep Prime and get to either the SEC or B1G. The Big12 is too weak for us to remain at the higher numbers. A really good CU team led by Prime vs the big boys would pull monster numbers. Without that plan, we will be back to the PAC12
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He’s had a new contract on his desk for many months now.
 
Shambo said:
*when 😉
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Stop It Neil Patrick Harris GIF
 
Buffnik said:
I'd guess that Michigan is probably #1 right now. Its game vs UT drew almost 10M and the USC game had to have also pulled a big number.
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With the most recent numbers, Michigan is probably number 1 (I'm not going to look at every team) with about 19M total viewers.

LSU has about 16M total.

Notre Dame also has about 16M total.

Texas is probably up there with about 13M.

CU has about 17M. It will be interesting to see what happens this weekend; Michigan /Minnesota is the lead-in to CU/UCF on Fox.
 
Buffnik said:
Little different with an elite national conference that networks put their resources behind. They love CFB becoming a national sport instead of a regional sport. Oregon vs Penn State draws a bigger audience than Oregon vs Washington despite the latter being a more intense matchup.
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Greed is good?
 
Robert Sorell said:
Greed is good?
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It's the reality.

Universities care about money and prestige. That's going to drive every decision. So when the networks inevitably offer models which convey an "elite" status to the universities that join while offering a financial package that's in-line with the ratings college football, M&W basketball and other college sports programming relative to pro sports leagues... those offered will jump on it and there will be a bloodbath for the "bubble" spots.
 
14er said:
Cinematic replay

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I remember the team trying to sing the fight song last year - very awkward with all the new players not really knowing it, including Prime. Much different in this clip. Not trying to put too much meaning into this, but as a fan, I like seeing more cohesiveness in the team, hopefully reflected in more appreciation for CU tradition.

edit: the good kind of tradition. Recent tradition for CU has been extremely lousy.
 
Buffnik said:
It's the reality.

Universities care about money and prestige. That's going to drive every decision. So when the networks inevitably offer models which convey an "elite" status to the universities that join while offering a financial package that's in-line with the ratings college football, M&W basketball and other college sports programming relative to pro sports leagues... those offered will jump on it and there will be a bloodbath for the "bubble" spots.
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Definitely agree that it's reality.

I think it's a long term bad play to have these 16+ team conferences but I could be wrong.

I think the right move is to split FBS into two divisions, there's just not a feasible way to have that many reasonably comparable football teams play for one league. I think that's where this is ultimately headed, but doing it s some sort of game of musical chairs where there are semi-random handicaps in the form of grant of rights, buyouts, TV rights etc. is messy and will leave some deserving schools out in the cold and let some undeserving schools in.

So, it feels like we're getting conference reshuffling with the viable conferences trying to get bigger, at the expense of traditional rivalries, and sensible logistical considerations.

I think the West coast teams in the B1G and ACC are going to suffer, and the sport will suffer from having those programs diminished.

But, the shot callers cashing bonus checks for the next 3 years will be long gone from the game before any of those chickens come home to roost.

What a time to be alive.
 
Robert Sorell said:
Definitely agree that it's reality.

I think it's a long term bad play to have these 16+ team conferences but I could be wrong.

I think the right move is to split FBS into two divisions, there's just not a feasible way to have that many reasonably comparable football teams play for one league. I think that's where this is ultimately headed, but doing it s some sort of game of musical chairs where there are semi-random handicaps in the form of grant of rights, buyouts, TV rights etc. is messy and will leave some deserving schools out in the cold and let some undeserving schools in.

So, it feels like we're getting conference reshuffling with the viable conferences trying to get bigger, at the expense of traditional rivalries, and sensible logistical considerations.

I think the West coast teams in the B1G and ACC are going to suffer, and the sport will suffer from having those programs diminished.

But, the shot callers cashing bonus checks for the next 3 years will be long gone from the game before any of those chickens come home to roost.

What a time to be alive.
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Conferences need to go away. There needs to be a single league everyone is under with the same rules, legal authority to negotiate media and sponsorship deals, and both investigative & enforcement authority.
 
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