At least we get ratings for our bowl games

Submitted by iawolve on

 

Not sure how many of you noticed this in the back section of the Wall Street Journal today where they listed best teams to have for a bowl game based on effect on viewership. The ranking took into effect whether the team in the game exceeded or fell short of the projected viewership based on that particular bowl game’s average audience size. They only went back to 1998 and your opponent surely affects the audience draw so I am not sure how scientific the analysis really is. However, at least we made the top 5. I am sure this did not hurt our chances of getting our draw into the Gator instead of the Insight Bowl.

 

Team

Effect on Viewship

USC

+29%

Florida State

+23%

Notre Dame

+21%

Miami

+16%

Michigan

+12%
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BlueDragon

December 27th, 2010 at 9:59 PM ^

I'm sure the bowl selection committees has little tables like this made up when they get together to pick teams for their bowls.  That said, I'm still proud that we're numerous and loyal enough to bump up our ratings so much (even more than tOSU or YTMSU, among others).

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Tater

December 28th, 2010 at 7:25 AM ^

MSU does not travel well, nor are they ratings-relevant outside of the midwest.  That is why they are going to the Crap-it-all One Bowl for the second time in three years this year.  It certainly doesn't help that they laid down in the second half to a mediocre UGA team two years ago which featured an offense that may have well been Matthew Stafford and ten intramural players. 

Does anyone here think that an 11-1 University of Michigan team would ever get stuck in the Capitol One Bowl, no matter how many 11-1 teams there were in the conference that year?  Didn't think so.

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