re: Title game audience down over 3 million viewers from last year

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They should have it the Saturday on the week before the Super Bowl. No competition that weekend.

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Negative.

New Year's Day is where that game belongs.

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Washed out by the NFL playoffs and inauguration

If the game wasn't two giant brands it would have been a blood bath.

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Yeah. Between the Inauguration and watching local weather news, I nearly forgot about the game.

I'll watch just about any college football that's on if my team isn't playing, but having the championship game almost 2 (or more) months after most fans basically consider the season over is really stretching it.

They should get rid of conference championship games entirely. Since they won’t do that, they should start the season a week earlier and have the CCGs the Friday/Saturday of Thanksgiving week. Either way (whether you keep CCGs or not):

1) Selection Sunday should be 3 days after Thanksgiving (i.e., a week before it is now).

2) Then play the first round two weekends after (this is what they’re doing now, but it’d be a week earlier in the calendar year if Selections are the weekend of Thanksgiving).

3) Play the quarterfinals the very next weekend. This could either be bowl sites or still on campus. (Note: When Thanksgiving is 11/28, that Saturday would be 12/21. When Thanksgiving is 11/22, that Saturday would be 12/15. So in theory, when Thanksgiving is 11/22 or 11/23, you could have a bye week between the first round and the quarterfinals, and then play the quarterfinals on 12/22 / 12/23, or just keep them 12/15 / 12/16.)

4) Play the semifinals on 1/1 at bowl sites. (If 1/1 is a Sunday, play them on 1/2.)

5) Play the NCG on the Thursday that occurs from 1/8 to 1/14. I know we all love Saturday cfb. So do I. But at that point you’re lost in the NFL playoff shuffle. At least a Thursday night is weekend-lite, and you should get a lot of buzz for it in pre-game coverage that sometimes gets lost on Monday when they’re still recapping the NFL playoff action from the weekend.

Season would end at absolute latest 1/14. The quarterfinals would be completed before Christmas. Semifinals on NYD at traditional bowl sites.

Go woke go broke

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Washed out by the NFL playoffs and inauguration

If the game wasn't two giant brands it would have been a blood bath

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It's much more than that, people who used to love college football now are being turned off by it, the NCAA the same group that bullied North Car. into a bathroom bill for pervo types, or else they would have taken NCAA CBB tourney games, no doubt was in cahoots with lawyers to bring this to pass, this could have been won easily. The NCAA wanted to open the pandoras box.

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It was beyond stupid to play the game on the same day as the inauguration. They should have either played the game last Friday or on Tuesday.

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If someone chose to watch inauguration coverage instead of the CFPNCG (which was HOURS after the inauguration)....spoiler alert they were not going to watch the game in the first place.

It doesn't bother me. I watched. It's not like there was anything better on. At least the game wasn't the same old teams playing for the title. I had no interest watching the inauguration.

Down 3 million because everyone in louisiana was focused on freeze and snow prep

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Think it was more of college football fatigue. I love college football but the product this year was not great and the season was too long.

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This. It’s kind of like the Christmas holidays … you start early or December and after Christmas or New Year’s, you’ve had too much, want to clean up/dry out, and move on.


The first round games before Christmas were fun, some of the following games were great (Texas - Arizona State, Notre Dame - Penn State / Georgia), but after a month or so, you’re just tapped out. By the time the title game rolled around, I was done. Couples with NFL Playoffs, a few extra weeks in January is just too much for CFB.

ETA: And this has been addressed before, but these CFB and CBB Monday title games are straight brutal. I can’t carve out time on January 20th from work projects, emails, etc. to focus in on title games. It’s not like I’m hitting the bars on a Monday night with the guys and having my freaking Tuesday shot. I was in bed by 9:30.