re: Anyone still want the Crap1 Bowl?

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The Cotton today I've hardly even heard anything about. Some anchor mentioned the score in passing on ESPN, and that was it.

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If your rating bowls based on exposure on ESPN, then obviously the Cap1 Bowl will be better than any other bowl game not televised on ESPN (or a related network). Networks don't advertise other networks' broadcasts. It takes an event like the Superbowl or the National Championship to break that rule.

Obviously we are in a different situation than most because we are LSU fans and our team was playing tonight and not on January 1st. But I would not be a bit surprised if significantly more people saw more of this game than they did of any recent Cap1 Bowl. Being the only game on carries a lot of weight, and a shitload of ratings points.

Think about this: there is only one reason for any college football game in history to have ever been scheduled on a day other than a Saturday, or bowl games on Christmas Day or New Years day. And that is to give it a timeslot away from competing college football games. And the weight of that factor alone has given us Tuesday night games, Thursday night games, Friday night games, and bowl games almost every night from December 19th throught January 7th. Why do you think the National Championship Game was moved from January 1st in the first place? If they were afraid of the impact the other New Years day bowl games would have on the National Championship Game, what kind of impact do you think it has on the Cap1 Bowl?

I think the exposure for the Cotton Bowl will turn out to be at least the equal of the Cap1 bowl. And all reports seem to indicate that it also won out on every other aspect as well.

That being said, I hate bowl games after January 1st, but that's only because I am a wildly impractical traditionalist and purist (since it's not up to me, I can afford to be).