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Brutal ratings for the two playoff games with G5 teams
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:09 am
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:09 am
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Viewership for the first round of the College Football Playoff hit both record highs and record lows.
On ESPN, Alabama-Oklahoma and Miami-Texas A&M became the most- and second-most-watched first-round College Football Playoff games on record. Friday night, Alabama-Oklahoma averaged 14.9 million viewers. On Saturday afternoon, the Miami-Texas A&M game averaged 14.8 million viewers. That was good enough for the fifth- and sixth-most-watched college football games this season.
The blowouts involving Group of Five teams on TNT fared far worse. Facing the NFL, Tulane-Ole Miss averaged 6.2 million viewers, while James Madison-Oregon averaged 4.4 million viewers.
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Overall, the first round averaged 9.9 million viewers across all four games, down 9% from last year. The difference from last year is likely greater when factoring in Big Data, Nielsen’s new viewership methodology introduced in September, which generally increases sports viewership.
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Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:17 am to RLDSC FAN
Going head to head with the NFL and putting games on a network that doesn’t normally broadcast games doesn’t help either.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:21 am to RLDSC FAN
You can 100% tell ESPN was intentional with what they were doing with the schedule. I promise you nobody in Bristol or Atlanta is sweating it.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:22 am to RLDSC FAN
I’m very interested to see all of the ratings this year. I think last year did ok as the first year of 12, but man I don’t have a single friend, or group text thread with buddies that are talking about the CFP at all
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:22 am to RLDSC FAN
That is probably the highest ratings TNT ever got for any program.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:24 am to RLDSC FAN
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Brutal ratings for the two playoff games with G5 teams
This more than anything is what will drive further tweaking.
They won’t keep the G5 schools out but look for additional teams, rounds and manipulation to get any future G5 schools “weeded out” earlier.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:26 am to RLDSC FAN
14.8 million viewers for that A&M game at 11 AM central. 70% less viewers for the Oregon game in primetime.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:27 am to RLDSC FAN
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Tulane-Ole Miss averaged 6.2 million viewers, while James Madison-Oregon averaged 4.4 million viewers.
That’s more than any regular season game in any other sport and more than most playoff games in most other sports.
Which is why this thing will keep expanding. 6 million live viewers is one of the most valuable tv products in existence
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:31 am to RLDSC FAN
Honestly that was a lot more than I was expecting
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:32 am to Alt26
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Going head to head with the NFL and putting games on a network that doesn’t normally broadcast games doesn’t help either.
In addition to this keep in mind that the Oregon game kicked at 7:30 pm ET (more likely closer to 8) so you had a majority of the country, out east, going to bed before it was over.
For perspective, the Oregon USC game in wk 13 that kicked at 3:30 ET had 5.43 million viewers.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:40 am to RLDSC FAN
Nobody outside of the south gives a frick about an Ole Miss. Let's not put the blame solely on the G5 schools.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:47 am to RLDSC FAN
The G5 games were just CFP's DEI contribution. No one is shocked or surprised by viewership or outcomes but, at least CFPC, ESPN and TBS can feel good about their virtual signaling.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:51 am to dalefla
I get why they include them though...it's kinda hard to keep a couple hundred schools bought into an organization that says "only 50 of you will even have a shot at the top prize". You have to give the illusion that all of them could possibly make it. Thank Boise St for that I guess.
This post was edited on 12/24/25 at 8:51 am
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:56 am to Chucktown_Badger
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I get why they include them though...it's kinda hard to keep a couple hundred schools bought into an organization that says "only 50 of you will even have a shot at the top prize". You have to give the illusion that all of them could possibly make it.
why? If you play in a joke of a league (G5) and your 12 game schedule consists of teams barely about high school level, why should you get a shot? If a team like Boise back in the aughts for instance played that kind of schedule BUT also scheduled a couple big boys and beat them, sure give them a seat at the table. But this year's tulane and JMU schedules were complete jokes and they had absolutely zero business whatsoever being in the hunt for a national title.
There's 120+ FBS teams, it's not realistic to think that some of these temas ranked in the hundreds should have the same shot at a title as a bama or OSU. Thsi isn't rec ball. If people are going to be so personally offended about this then the G5 needs ot have their own little mini-playoff and have a G5 championship.
A team like Vandy for instance that played an SEC guantlet and had some legit big time wins getting bypassed for frickin james madison is a joke.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 9:01 am to Chucktown_Badger
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Thank Boise St for that I guess.
Boise State was the match that lit the fuse on this whole shite show...
Year after year going undefeated (or close to it), with some occasional quality wins.. Forcing the committee to justify bigger name teams with worse records being ahead of them to keep TV ratings up. It was because of Boise that the "Power 5" split got rolling, and created the perpetual spending machine that we currently have.
Should have been clear then that this show was about TV contracts and money, and not not about the untainted competition of amateur collegiate athletics
This post was edited on 12/24/25 at 9:02 am
Posted on 12/24/25 at 9:01 am to RLDSC FAN
On TNT going against NFL games it’s expected
Posted on 12/24/25 at 9:02 am to WG_Dawg
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There's 120+ FBS teams, it's not realistic to think that some of these temas ranked in the hundreds should have the same shot at a title as a bama or OSU.
That’s not what happened
Posted on 12/24/25 at 9:05 am to RLDSC FAN
Damn it feels good being right
Posted on 12/24/25 at 9:06 am to lsupride87
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I don’t have a single friend, or group text
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by lsupride87
We know
Posted on 12/24/25 at 9:15 am to RLDSC FAN
Texas - Ole Miss
Notre Dame - Oregon
or vise versa would have been the shite
Notre Dame - Oregon
or vise versa would have been the shite
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