Playoff ratings drop

[VolsSportsFan]

New Year's Eve semis are inconvenient and insulting; better get used to it | FOX Sports

Not really a surprise they dropped but they dropped well more than hoped.

 

[Notorious B.E.N]

Was a terrible time to have them. Should have been today.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Was a terrible time to have them. Should have been today.

Blame the Rose Bowl.

 

[Ernest T. Vol]

Was a terrible time to have them. Should have been today.

That's right. Dumb scheduling.

 

[spankadelphia]

I bet they never do it again.

 

[bamawriter]

I bet they never do it again.

The current contract runs for another ten years. They may not have much of a choice.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

I bet they never do it again.

How much?

 

[vols-1]

Bad matchups. Oklahoma and MSU both lost to teams with losing records. Ohio St. and Stanford just look like they are notch ahead.

 

[VolNExile]

Needs to be matched up to the calendar. When NYD is on Friday, the playoffs could easily have been on Saturday.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Bad matchups. Oklahoma and MSU both lost to teams with losing records. Ohio St. and Stanford just look like they are notch ahead.

The date/time had much more to do with it.

 

[WarDamnVols]

you mean General Hospital didn't help get more viewers?

Disney InundatesÂ*General Hospital Episode With References To New Year's Eve College Football Playoff Games

shocking.

 

[Volatility]

I can't believe this happened. No one works on New Years Eve and they stay in that night.

 

[volfanhill]

The rose bowl needs to be told to get in line

 

[LibertyVol]

Nobody wanted to watch the Gumps play a scrimmage game. The Big 10 is pathetic. The only people who thought that game would be worth watching lived north of the Mason-Dixon line.

 

[UTCVol]

They should have just been scheduled for tomorrow.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

They should have just been scheduled for tomorrow.

ESPN proposed it and it was denied.

 

[TrueOrange]

New Year's Eve semis are inconvenient and insulting; better get used to it | FOX Sports

Not really a surprise they dropped but they dropped well more than hoped.

That's what happens when you play something on New Year's Eve.

 

[TrueOrange]

Was a terrible time to have them. Should have been today.

Blame the Rose Bowl.

And the Sugar Bowl.

Both by contract have to be on Jan 1st.

 

[TrueOrange]

I bet they never do it again.

At the moment, they kind of have to.

 

[TrueOrange]

Needs to be matched up to the calendar. When NYD is on Friday, the playoffs could easily have been on Saturday.

The Rose and Sugar bowls would have to share time slots.


That or traditional New Year's Day bowls (outback, capital one, etc) would need to be played on the 2nd in that situation.

 

[alexbond45]

As said previously, it's the damn Rose Bowl. The Playoffs should threaten to hold a game in the Rose Bowl EVERY year if they don't give their crap together.

 

[LSU-SIU]

Good,

 

[UTK]

The Nation is simply tired of seeing stupid ass Bama in the post season. Go crawl under a rock somewhere Saban

 

[bamawriter]

The Nation is simply tired of seeing stupid ass Bama in the post season. Go crawl under a rock somewhere Saban

That must be why Bama's game got higher ratings.

 

[VolFootballnut]

As said previously, it's the damn Rose Bowl. The Playoffs should threaten to hold a game in the Rose Bowl EVERY year if they don't give their crap together.

Too much tradition with the Granddaddy of bowl games for them to move it from New Years Day.