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Report: College Football Ratings Were Down For 2017

by Staff Reporter

December 12, 201711 Comments

Jason Getz-USA TODAY Sports

Austin Karp with Sports Business Daily recently reported that College Football Ratings on CBS, ABC, NBC and ESPN all posted significant declines this season.

Ratings on Fox were up due to their new deal with the Big Ten. Per SI.com:

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One of the best analysts at making sense of sports television and digital ratings is Austin Karp, the assistant managing editor of Sports Business Daily. Last week Karp examined the 2017 regular season viewership for college football and found that CBS, ABC, NBC and ESPN all posted significant declines this season. Fox was the one outlier, with record-high viewership thanks to its new Big Ten deal. Karp said ratings were not available for conference channels like SEC Network, Big Ten Network and Pac-12 Network.

Per Karp, here’s where the networks finished for average viewership for this year’s CFB regular season:

CBS: 4.951 million viewers, down 10% from 5.489 million in 2016.

ABC: 4.203 million, down 18% from 5.097 million.

Fox: 3.625 million, up 23% from 2.951 million.

NBC: 2.742, down 3% from 2.814 million.

ESPN: 2.155 million, down 6% from 2.300 million.

FS1: 819,000, up 4% from 743,000.

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Nix to Twillie•76 months

People are tired of seeing the same shite every year. Talking heads keep hyping up "Bama-Clemson III." Are there any casual college football fans that are really dying to see this?

CaptainJ47•76 months

How do they take into account the people who use fire sticks or other ways to watch this? I have to believe people not using cable but finding another stream to watch are influencing these numbers.

TigerSpray•76 months

refs screwing kids for the dollar is not something we want to be a part of.

Solo Cam•76 months

Boring when the same team wins every year...

tbabino•76 months

don't stone me, but i think some of this is Bama-fatigue

bamagreycoat•76 months

This is bad news. As the demographics continue to change in this country, it will only get much worse.

BlackPot•76 months

Couldn't tell you the reasoning I guess, but this whole year I didn't watch much football. College or NFL. College games just didn't have that same feel like they used to.

CP3LSU25•76 months

People suck. College football is the best sport

tigerfoot•76 months

We are tired of prepping kids for the NFL. Look at Key this year, no desire to be there for the LSU team. Leaving early. QBs transferring every where you look. The teams are in too much state of flux for the average fan. Conferences are misaligned, no one give a damn about watching Mizzou in the SEC. no more than a guy from Michigan cares about Nebraska Too many crap games as well. You get used to doing something else on Saturday versus watching us play McNeese

jdutto3•76 months

Not saying this is the reason but college football needs some kind of coordinated schedule. So many times this season there would be garbage on all day and multiple ranked vs ranked games in one time slot.

TampaTiger22•76 months

Agreed.

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