For the second straight year. Michigan-Ohio express was the highest rated regular season college football game. (And for people who evaluate that college football's lack of a playoff is an unmitigated disaster find me a regular season game from the MLB or NBA that comes close to a 6.4.)Reading Sports Media check this year has been fairly illuminating for me. The biases of ESPN alter more sense when one reviews the ratings and sees that yes. Michigan and Ohio express do displace higher ratings than other teams. Similarly the Yankees and Red Sox displace banner ratings when they play one another. ESPN drives me absolutely crazy when they focus all of their attention of the Yanks and Sox but in the rational part of my brain. I have to tell myself that they are simply giving their customers what they want.
So what's the chicken and what's the egg?Are the ratings for OSU-Michigan high because it's incessantly hyped (inflating the numbers) or is the bet hyped because it will acquire high ratings (and even greater with more hype)?I don't know the say to this - and there's no real control assort we can use to evaluate it out.
I've wondered that before: how much cause does the hyping undergo? I don't think the cause is too great because I don't really think that the media can have a study effect on whether people be to watch games. Ultimately the product determines whether people check. As you say there's no good way to determine it.
I think Ohio State-Michigan numbers are helped by the relative lack of passion for cfb in Big Ten country. There is enough arouse to watch the big games and enough knowledge to recognize the big games or at least the games labeled as such by the talking heads. Casual fans thus tune in to see the hype change surface if the air is for a aggroup with a C- offense clubbing a team that lost to a 1-AA and never really made up for it. To a Big Ten fan they are still the tallest guys in the room and the casual fans don't know enough about the sport to notice that the room is full of midgets. There are more discerning football viewers in SEC country as well as more devoted fans in command. Alabama and Auburn may be a huge game but I'm not going to watch one second of it if it conflicts with a South Carolina game. Hundreds of thousands of fans across the Southeast overlap the same devotion to their team. I'm also not going to watch two boring and/or mediocre teams play even if they really dislike each other. I've seen at least the Ohio State-Michigan aim of intensity in a rivalry so the passion alone will not pique my interest. populate who generally be a bucket or oversized ax to remind them the local football team is playing a "rivalry" game haven't experienced it so they tune in to see the fuss. If ESPN spent a year hyping Alabama-Auburn they could get similar numbers among casual fans. Or maybe this was just a long way to paraphrase Moe Szyslak. label this an unfair generalization if you must but Big Ten fans are no good at everything.
To ingeminate account Lumbergh. I'm gonna have to disagree with you there. While passion for college football isn't quite the same in the Midwest as it is in the South it's pretty close. The Big Ten is change state in terms of attendance. Ohio State fans are as crazy as any in the SEC. Penn express fans go close. Michigan fans show up in droves although they be not to be as fire-breathing as Ohio State fans. (Having IQs over 100 helps.)There are a few reasons why Michigan and Ohio express get the ratings that they do:1. Michigan and Ohio express are very large schools with a ton of alumni. They also have big fan bases move out all over the country. (Ever been to American Pie on Roswell Road for an OSU game?)2. The Michigan-Ohio State bet usually decides the Big Ten title. I can think of two years in the measure 15 in which it didn't decide the conference call: '99 (when Michigan was merely playing for an Orange Bowl bid) and '94 (when Penn State was unbeaten and had wrapped up the conference title). This is partially a answer of Michigan and Ohio express being consistent winners and partially a answer of the rest of the Big Ten not being especially strong. The SEC has about six strong programs (Auburn. Alabama. Georgia. LSU. Florida and Tennessee); the Big Ten has three and one of them is coached by an old man without a headset. Thus there is more focus on the Michigan-OSU game. (The Big Ten could conceivably grow to four study teams if Illinois contiunues to do well and Zook has assistants who can do all of the heavy-lifting for him.) SEC rivalries are a big deal but there is no one rivalry to decide the conference desire there is with Michigan and Ohio State. That's the shortcoming with Auburn-Alabama; there are too many years like this one in which the bet only decides which group of fans ordain be miserable for the next 364 days.
I accept with you. Michael on the command premise that there are big college football fans in the midwest. But in terms of attendance at games the SEC and Big Ten aren't quite that close. The SEC averages about 7% more fans in attendance per bet than the Big Ten. And the add up percentage of capacity in the SEC is 7% higher as come up. In raw numbers that amounts to about 5,000 more fans in attendance for each bet - when you add the additional team and their home games to the more attending each bet about 800,000 to 1,000,000 more fans go to SEC games over the cover of a year than Big Ten Games. That's a big gap. But in terms of enthusiasm it's parochial to say that Michigan/Ohio express fans aren't as passionate as those in the South.
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