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CU Buffs Viewership Watch
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Curious what the CU-Stanford viewership will be vs. the top 10 UO/UW Gameday showdown. I mean, you'd expect at least triple the viewers for one of the most hyped games of the year between the Pac 12's two "top brands". Especially considering the respective time slots and the relatively low interest, low stakes Stanford match. Right?
Difficult comparison. Colorado Football is still a major sports story. It’s also the only bettable major American sporting event televised tonight.
What’s the model like tonight?
Easily
Stanford
3.3m for Stanford. That’s still a pretty good considering 4m is kind of the standard for a high viewed game
It was the sixth most watched college football game last weekend. All other games were big matchups in desirable time slots on Saturday.
The original tweet to which Mandel is responding is so ****ing stupid that it makes my head hurt.
As I noted in the Stanford game thread, the only Friday night game this season with even 2M viewers was KSU/OSU, which kicked off at 7 ET and had 2.25M viewers. The only game to kick off at 9 ET or later on a Friday with more than 1M viewers this season was Utah/Oregon State (a ranked matchup), which had 1.34M viewers.
CU/Stanford had roughly the same viewership as those COMBINED.
Going to last season, the only Friday night game with higher viewership was Florida/FSU. That game was on the Friday after Thanksgiving and was a 7:30 kickoff, with a solid lead-in from NC State/UNC and Mizzou/Arky. The game with a 9:00 or later kickoff that did the best was UCLA/Washington (a ranked matchup), which kicked off at 10:30 ET and got 1.70M viewers.
In fact, I went back 5 seasons, and only a handful of Friday night games has done this well- nearly all of them were Pac12 Championship games. However, no games from the Friday night late kickoff (9:00 ET or later) have even come within a million of this game.
You don't understand, though. The goalposts moved, and even though that kick would have been good from 57 yards, it would have missed from 73 yards. Therefore we should be embarrassed.