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Not to rehash the SEC’s decision to quit the annual Bama/LSU game. These TV numbers wild
Posted on 10/8/25 at 4:05 pm
Posted on 10/8/25 at 4:05 pm
“6.4M viewers tuned in Saturday to ABC's coverage of Vandy/ Alabama. SEC 2:30 game had more viewers than the ACC Primetime game of Miami/FSU (6M)”
I hate Bama but people tune in to them. You’d would think, monetarily-speaking the SEC wants to maximize this Bama effect (Vandy sure didn’t bring in all those viewers). In order to do so the league should have considered giving them a better team to play every year than Mississippi State. ABC must have been in the bathroom when the topic of replacing LSU/ Bama with Mississippi State/Bama came up.
I hate Bama but people tune in to them. You’d would think, monetarily-speaking the SEC wants to maximize this Bama effect (Vandy sure didn’t bring in all those viewers). In order to do so the league should have considered giving them a better team to play every year than Mississippi State. ABC must have been in the bathroom when the topic of replacing LSU/ Bama with Mississippi State/Bama came up.
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Posted on 10/8/25 at 4:15 pm to BayouPride
This was all Bama. They didn’t want to have LSU on the permanent schedule. They made it very clear. They didn’t want to have LSU, AU, and Tenner. Thought it was unfair.
This post was edited on 10/8/25 at 4:18 pm
Posted on 10/8/25 at 4:17 pm to BayouPride
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I hate Bama but people tune in to them.
People tuned in to see if Vandy could beat them again
Posted on 10/8/25 at 4:27 pm to saintsfan22
Exactly
Posted on 10/8/25 at 4:28 pm to BayouPride
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(Vandy sure didn’t bring in all those viewers)
Uh, that's exactly why everyone was watching...
Posted on 10/8/25 at 4:30 pm to BayouPride
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You’d would think, monetarily-speaking the SEC wants to maximize this Bama effect (Vandy sure didn’t bring in all those viewers). In order to do so the league should have considered giving them a better team to play every year than Mississippi State.
you have to balance making money in the regular season with sabotaging a chance to get more teams in the playoffs.
that playoff money is big as well.
Posted on 10/8/25 at 4:36 pm to TigerDenWest
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This was all Bama. They didn’t want to have LSU on the permanent schedule. They made it very clear. They didn’t want to have LSU, AU, and Tenner. Thought it was unfair.
No it wasn't. The SEC tried to balance out the permanent opponents as much as possible. Alabama has played Tennessee more than any other SEC opponent and Auburn is an instate archrival. Those two were ahead of LSU in the pecking order. Putting LSU in the mix with Tenn and Auburn would have created (on paper) an imbalance relative to the permanent opponents of other SEC schools.
While it sucks that Alabama won't be an annual opponent for the foreseeable future, I understand why the SEC did what it did. Where the SEC screwed up is with Tennessee. They avoid both Florida and Georgia as permanent rivals and get Kentucky and Vandy to go along with Alabama.
LSU has played Florida more than they've played Arkansas throughout LSU's history. But make no mistake about it, If LSU would have been placed with Ole Miss, A&M, and Florida, you'd have 200 threads bitching about how the SEC "hates" LSU...just like you had for well over a decade when Florida was great and Tennessee sucked.
Posted on 10/8/25 at 4:45 pm to Alt26
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LSU has played Florida more than they've played Arkansas throughout LSU's history.
yet Arkansas is still a more historical rival and a closer local rival.
we had played Arkansas 31 times (starting in 1901) before we ever faced Florida (starting in 1937) in football
overall matchups are 70 to 72.
Posted on 10/8/25 at 4:45 pm to BayouPride
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Vandy sure didn’t bring in all those viewers
They sure as hell did! Everybody like me wanted to see it the Vandy Cinderella story was going to keep on going.
Posted on 10/8/25 at 6:04 pm to GetmorewithLes
Ga-Tenn in that 2:30 time slot a few weeks ago drew over 12 million, hit a high of 16 million. Several years ago that was off the chart numbers for a primetime game.
Posted on 10/8/25 at 6:09 pm to saintsfan22
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People tuned in to see if Vandy could beat them again
Yep. Bama pulls big numbers because people tune in hoping to see them lose.
Posted on 10/8/25 at 6:17 pm to BayouPride
They weren’t giving us to Bama when they have AU and TN.
Posted on 10/8/25 at 7:43 pm to BayouPride
This was both Bama not wanting it and the SEC watching out for their bell cow for many years. (SEC offices in Birmingham since the late 1950s) There was zero chance Bama was getting the auto two picks of Auburn and Tennessee and then have their third pick be LSU instead of a rent a win.
This post was edited on 10/8/25 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 10/8/25 at 9:21 pm to Draino54
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Ga-Tenn in that 2:30 time slot a few weeks ago drew over 12 million, hit a high of 16 million
But Bama is as big of a draw if not bigger than Tennessee or Georgia. Bama vs LSU has massive viewership and ABC gave what? 300 million dollars to the SEC. I doubt ABC imagined a year in and year out 11 am Bama vs Mississippi State game instead of the prime time blockbuster that is bama vs lsu. How does ABC let the terms be dictated to them when they are putting up the dough? Their voice was silenced or they weren’t paying attention.
Posted on 10/8/25 at 9:57 pm to TigerDenWest
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This was all Bama…
I’m not quite sure Bama is overly concerned about LSU. Hell, if anything they’re probably upset they lost what has become a fairly certain win.
Posted on 10/8/25 at 11:58 pm to geauxbrown
ABC/ESPN did not determine our schedules. LSU will play Bama twice in every 4-year period. The series is not going away. No series is going away.
ABC/ESPN got what it really wanted which is all of us playing 9 SEC games instead of 8.
ABC/ESPN got what it really wanted which is all of us playing 9 SEC games instead of 8.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 7:27 am to TigerDenWest
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This was all Bama. They didn’t want to have LSU on the permanent schedule. They made it very clear. They didn’t want to have LSU, AU, and Tenner. Thought it was unfair.
Why would they not want LSU on their schedule? They beat us on average nearly seven-out-of-ten years.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 7:42 am to sgallo3
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yet Arkansas is still a more historical rival and a closer local rival.
I guess if you are 110 years old you would think that. A not so insignificant number of those games occurred between 1900 - 1935. Between 1936 and 1991, a period of 55 years, LSU and Arkansas played only 7 times. While LSU began playing Arkansas long before they started playing Florida, I think most alive today would say Florida is more of a "rival". First and foremost, Florida has always been in the SEC with LSU. Also, LSU and Florida have played ever season since 1971. A period of almost 55 years.
Unfortunately with change, some old traditions are left behind. Would it be logical to have Alabama play Tennessee, LSU and Auburn every season while LSU played Alabama, Ole Miss, and Florida? Sure. But then we'd have fans bitching on here about how it is grossly unfair that LSU draws Florida ever season...just like we had for 30+ years when Florida was annually one of the best programs in the SEC.
I love both the Florida and Alabama matchups. As a fan, I hate to see them go. But from a competitive balancing standpoint I understand why neither were included as a permanent opponent for LSU.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 2:12 pm to Alt26
The SEC's original plan was to divide the conference into an upper group and lower group based on teams' performances in the last 20 years. Then an upper team would play 2 upper teams and 1 lower team, and opposite for lower teams. This put Alabama having LSU and Auburn in the upper tier, and Tennessee in the lower tier. But they argued it's unfair, and it was changed
Posted on 10/9/25 at 5:47 pm to BayouPride
The 3 rivals for Bama (Tn, LSU & Aub) were leaked about 2-3 years ago & Saban said “no way”. That’s where the LSU game died.
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