ViejoLoco574

Public Educator. Zero tolerance for fools. I drink beer & know things. #Buckeyes, #Guardians. #F1 #CFB #DogDad. Bottom Line: My dog is just better than yours...

[Ralph D. Russo @ralphDrussoATH]

Little more context to today’s discourse on college football viewership.

[ViejoLoco574 @ViejoLoco574]

@ESisson7 @EricQuiz2096 I always thought if 16 was MARKETED correctly, it was the sweet spot. Select 16 teams, market the first 8 games (on campus, seeded, replacing CCG weekend in December) as "play in" games, for an 8 team CFP. Heck, let the 8 losing teams (and fan bases) still go to Bowl games.

[John Massingale @JohnMassingale4]

“One play could derail the season” and “they live and die with every play for 3 straight months” don’t reconcile.

In previous formats, the regular season had no stakes for most of the top 25 by the end of September because most teams had suffered a loss or two.

Now, in a 12 or 24 team format, instead of removing the stakes for the rest of the season…losing a game in September increases the stakes for the rest of the season.

The losses still matter because they raise the stakes for the rest of the games.

[Bud Elliott @BudElliott3]

The old bowl system did not provide broad championship access. It provided broad postseason validation. It allowed a large number of programs — not five or six, not 12, but 30-plus in a given year — to plausibly end the season believing they had accomplished something meaningful.

The modern playoff system has taken much of that meaning and concentrated it into one event.

So when I say the postseason format needs some reasonable relationship to the size of the group actually investing and trying to matter, I do not mean the old system was a clean title-access machine. It obviously was not. I mean the old system had enough meaningful postseason outcomes to support the number of programs trying to define themselves as successful.

Now that the playoff has swallowed so much of that meaning, playoff access has to carry more of the burden.

You cannot devalue the bowls, weaken conference-title games, centralize the entire sport around the CFP, and then tell 30 or 40 serious programs that 12 spots is enough because the rest of the postseason technically still exists while simultaneously telling them making a bowl doesn’t matter.

[ViejoLoco574 @ViejoLoco574]

@GTRecruitBuzz @SportsEpreneur Check the feed of Michael Mulvihill. He's President, Analytics, with Fox Sports. In terms of actual viewing time, numbers are slightly up. That's a data point that actually makes sense, IMO. The down 11% is nonsense.

[ViejoLoco574 @ViejoLoco574]

@AriWasserman He was more happy to talk about it, during his rounds with the podcast crowd. He's choosing to be a tool with the beat folks.

[ViejoLoco574 @ViejoLoco574]

@ironfbstats Check the feed of Michael Mulivihill. Viewership time, is actually up, a tad. It's just spread over a larger volume of options.

[ViejoLoco574 @ViejoLoco574]

This has always seemed like the obvious counterpoint, to the expanded CFP. If you lose in the first round, on (what used to be) CCG weekend....why not still reward the losing teams & fans, with a nice bowl game trip? Maybe even first 2 rounds?

[Bob Thompson @rltsports]

Anyone hear from the “Football Bowl Association”? Maybe you let first round CFP losers play bowl games later in December? 🤔

[John Massingale @JohnMassingale4]

Still only 12 guaranteed opportunities to watch your team play.

Scarcity, not stakes, is still the reason we tune in.

Saturday slates like we’ll have on 11/7 will still be must-see TV.

Actually…expanding the playoff will make for more meaningful games for more teams later into the season.

[ViejoLoco574 @ViejoLoco574]

@cacoo24_24 @BigTenTed Not just the students going home. These aren't pro stadiums. On campus stadiums are staffed by local, PT, seasonal workers. After about 12/20, they're just not going to find enough folks to staff these games over the holidays. The schools know this, of course.

[ViejoLoco574 @ViejoLoco574]

@BudElliott3 I remember a 2015 defending national champion Ohio State team, losing a hard fought 3 point game to a 12-1 MSU team & essentially having their season ended. That, IMHO, was NOT a better system.

[ViejoLoco574 @ViejoLoco574]

@SportyMcSports It'll end up being 4/4/2/2 from the P4, one G6 & a target rank for ND. But you're likely on the correct track.

[Michael Mulvihill @mulvihill79]

I’ve seen at least one story saying average CFB viewership is down -11%, and it is

But the number of games on national networks is up, so the higher volume negates the lower average viewership

To me total viewing time is the most correct way to look at a sport’s overall trend

[Michael Mulvihill @mulvihill79]

Through September, total time spent viewing football versus last year on all outlets:

College Football - Up 0.2%

NFL - Down 0.7%

[ViejoLoco574 @ViejoLoco574]

@angdicarlo Especially considering he's spent the week doing a tour of the national podcast "bros", discussing the very subject(s)

[ViejoLoco574 @ViejoLoco574]

I feel like I'm in a minority here....but he's really just kind of an *sshole, isn't he? Just an angry dude. Not in a Coach-speak way.

[Ryan Clarke @RyanTClarke]

Dan Lanning seemed to take issue with questions by local media today about Dante Moore and the USC game. Extremely animated about wanting to move on despite this being his first availability since Saturday.

🎥: @MattPrehm #GoDucks

[ViejoLoco574 @ViejoLoco574]

@Genetics56 All comes back to the same calculation. If a brand doesn't add to the income / increase revenue (media rights), all they do is dilute the distribution pool. Add more mouths to feed. Other than ND or a package of the Florida schools....none do

[ViejoLoco574 @ViejoLoco574]

@BCrawford247 Barring a complete special teams meltdown for Ohio State (it's where Iowa holds the distinct edge), gotta think Bama? Game has the potential to be a shootout, which gives Miss St a punchers shot.

[ViejoLoco574 @ViejoLoco574]

@bkoo I tend to be pretty cynical, when folks start to RAVE about something. This lived up to every ounce of it's reputation. Great, great film