1.89 rating ABC 12:00 pm Celebration Bowl Alcorn State vs North Carolina A&T
1.40 rating ESPN 2:00 pm New Mexico Bowl Arizona vs New Mexico
2.41 rating ABC 3:30 pm Las Vegas Bowl BYU vs Utah
1.37 rating ESPN 5:30 pm Camellia Bowl Ohio vs Appalachian State
0.95 rating ESPN 9:00 pm New Orleans Bowl Arkansas State vs Louisiana Tech

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2015/12 ... nights-up/

I liked this part - "The Appalachian State/Ohio Camellia Bowl also drew a 1.4, up 133% from last year’s inaugural Bowling Green/South Alabama game..." 1.4 rating looks like it equates to about 2 million + viewers. That's a pretty good advertisement.

Still a bit lower than our 2009 game with Montana in the FCS playoffs. That one had a rating of 1.9.

http://www.appstatesports.com/ViewArtic ... =204858434

Still not bad as game started about the time folks were heading out for a Saturday evening whatever.

So the FCS bowl comes in a strong second...

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appbio91 wrote:So the FCS bowl comes in a strong second...

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The Celebration Bowl is a HUGE event in the black community.

They probably tuned in for the bands.

Being on ABC vs ESPN is worth a sizable bump.


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Capt. Ed wrote:Still not bad as game started about the time folks were heading out for a Saturday evening whatever.

IIRC, didn't the first half of our game overlap with Utah-BYU and the second half with the NFL game?

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appbio91 wrote:So the FCS bowl comes in a strong second...

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The Celebration Bowl is a HUGE event in the black community.

Damn, that bowl has a $2m payout.

I would love to see a graph of like how many viewers were tuned in by the end of the game compared to how many were at the start

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Capt. Ed wrote:Still not bad as game started about the time folks were heading out for a Saturday evening whatever.

IIRC, didn't the first half of our game overlap with Utah-BYU and the second half with the NFL game?

Yes, and the Arizona/New Mexico game ran long, so the start of App's game was on ESPN News until several minutes into the 1st quarter.

The highest rated games were on ABC. Not surprising.

Casual football fans were probably watching BYU vs Utah and the NFL game while we were playing.

I'd be very interested in seeing the local ratings in North Carolina. Because, I bet a very large chunk of that viewership came from App fans in-state.


Kind of related...

I saw this last week. Football is king.

So we can either make an FCS Semi-Final once every 10 years, or make a bowl game EVERY year and get about the same amount of viewers. Got it.

That was the rsting lat year, this years rating was just north of 1 million for ndsu v jmu, We beathat by 400k or so this year

Has attendance been announced? Our side seemed packed Toledo not so much.

Toledo side seemed better than the Ohio side last year