UM in 3 of 5 most watched college games this season.
This feels like old news, and I know the huge UM-tOSU ratings have been reported a lot, but I don't recall seeing that 3 of the 5 most watched college games were Michigan games. (Also, Iowa and, ugh, Staee.)
December 16th, 2021 at 4:30 PM ^
Let's hope we have two more games on this list before the season ends.
The loyal Michigan fanbase always tunes in.
#MichiganDifference
December 16th, 2021 at 4:41 PM ^
Michigan vs Georgia will likely be the new #1, and then Michigan vs Bama will beat that. Could end up being Michigan in the 3 most watched games, and 5 of the top 8, if Bama and Cincy beat out Michigan vs MSU.
December 17th, 2021 at 10:03 AM ^
It just feels like the national championship is supposed to be Alabama v Michigan. The ratings will be yuge.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:32 PM ^
Also, fuck the SEC while we are at it.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:40 PM ^
Would be great if we could add "beat the SEC's top two teams" to this year's already stellar round of accomplishments.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:36 PM ^
Which makes it all the more remarkable that the Big10 hasn't cracked down on biased officiating against Michigan (until possibly this year following the MSU shit show). Imagine if we won had won 1-2 more games per year over the past several years because the officiating was fair. Even more ratings!
December 16th, 2021 at 6:10 PM ^
I love Michigan. I hate when calls go against us. But I really hope people realize that every single fanbase has this same complaint.
"The officials are biased against us!"
I've seen Alabama fans with this complaint.
December 16th, 2021 at 6:26 PM ^
But they actually are biased against us...
Remember a few years ago when our incredibly talented D-line was drawing statistically significantly less holding calls than the rest of the Big10 and someone published a graph showing this and suddenly we started drawing call immediately after?
Remember 2016 OSU?
Remember MSU this year?
December 16th, 2021 at 9:52 PM ^
OSU 2016 was embarrassing. There is no logical explanation for what happened in that game except for intentionally biased/corrupt officials. I will never believe that wasn’t an intentional screw-job.
The MSU game this year was just incompetence. I don’t think the officials were out to get us. They just sucked. Bad officials tend to give more calls to the home team whoever that is.
December 16th, 2021 at 10:13 PM ^
It was actually the entire country. There was one team that was right with us in that graph and funny enough, it was Clemson. They had a really dominant line too and ACC officials were probably biased against them because of it.
Garbage if you ask me. Let the dominant dominate. Nobody should be penalized for being good.
December 16th, 2021 at 6:35 PM ^
Did the SEC apologize to Alabama when they lost to Texas A&M?
December 16th, 2021 at 7:17 PM ^
The B1G didn’t come out and say “Sorry you lost UM” that I remember seeing…Admitting errors isn’t the same as apologizing
December 16th, 2021 at 9:06 PM ^
You're right. They merely apologized for their shitty officiating that cost us 7 points minimum.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:03 PM ^
Probably because there is no biased officiating to crack down against
December 17th, 2021 at 9:37 AM ^
Agree. If you go to any B1G board, the biased officiating claims exist. As fans, we only remember the calls that go against us. Take a stroll through a PSU board after a loss if you have any doubts, PSU fans are constantly complaining about the darlings of the B1G (UM and OSU) getting every call and break. And of course, the most common complaint from every fan base is the "lack of OL holding calls" against the other team. Just the way it is
December 16th, 2021 at 4:46 PM ^
Nothing quite shows the appeal of UM like them pulling the #3 ratings game of the year out of a 7:30 matchup with Iowa.
December 16th, 2021 at 6:32 PM ^
You realize the evening slot is good for ratings, right?
December 16th, 2021 at 8:07 PM ^
Yes, and Iowa's brand of football is usually poison to ratings.
December 16th, 2021 at 5:04 PM ^
....and yet somewhere, someone is probably still saying we are not relevant and have not been in quite some time.
*looks at season's rating*
"I don't know....a lot of people seem interested in what's going on in Ann Arbor now. Irrelevancy would imply that there is indifference to us, but it doesn't seem so..."
December 16th, 2021 at 5:08 PM ^
Yes! Looking at the ratings list, Michigan obviously moves the needle, big games are what people want to see. Michigan, Alabama, Osu, Georgia all moved the ratings needle this year. Penn St, Oregon and Clemson were the others.. The Michigan Penn St game was the highest rated game that week in an otherwise ho-hum week of cf.
December 16th, 2021 at 5:11 PM ^
Perhaps tells you that the time of the game isn't as important as the matchup. Love the noon games!
December 16th, 2021 at 5:28 PM ^
Kevin Warren please take notice, because the great masturbater Delany did not when it came to running the conference.
December 16th, 2021 at 9:25 PM ^
What do you have against great masturbators? Please don’t associate us with the likes of Delaney.
December 16th, 2021 at 5:39 PM ^
So what does this say about "media markets," etcetera. Are we just special?
December 17th, 2021 at 12:00 PM ^
Idk about Media Markets but a ginormous alumni base and fan base is evident. That said when the team is playing well people tune in. When playing great and at a high level lots of cf fans tune in and in general football fans. Michigan has large fan bases in the obvious home state but also Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin.. and as well NY/NJ and Florida/California…. Places alumnus have moved for work or came from before going to UM.
December 16th, 2021 at 5:49 PM ^
Michigan continues to have coast to coast appeal... make that around the world appeal.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:01 PM ^
its cuz Michigan is fucking sweet and everyone else sucks nads
-My kids, probably-
December 16th, 2021 at 8:55 PM ^
Michigan rolls off the tongue like honey and the uniforms are easy on the eyes. What’s not to like?
December 16th, 2021 at 9:22 PM ^
Imagine what we could do if we had Oregon or USC level cheerleaders, or maybe those Texas chaps?
December 17th, 2021 at 3:19 AM ^
The Yay girl would argue with you there about Michigan cheerleaders!
December 17th, 2021 at 6:43 AM ^
Not bad in the background either
December 17th, 2021 at 10:10 AM ^
Yeah, the Event Staff guy has been working out
December 18th, 2021 at 1:59 AM ^
Yeah but that guy with his hands in his ass probably eats too many pizzas. To each their own!
December 17th, 2021 at 12:30 AM ^
We should have our own network just like Texas, The Wolverine Network, TWN.
And we could have ex-players host cooking shows. Or maybe "Dr Hutchison" could have guest like Phil do.