Horns Win Over Ohio State is a Fiesta of Ratings For Fox

Yet another reason that the Big XII needs Texas much more than Texas needs the Big XII.

Hook ’em!

uthookem—

Are you intimating that a Big 12 with, say, Arkansas or Houston has less appeal than one with Texas? Never!

srr50—

I always enjoy the reads on how we’re doing in ratings and merchandise land. Thanks.

Will Florida vs. OU beat Texas vs. USC in ratings?

Personally, I don’t think I can take another Ford F-150, Allstate, Tostitos, Southwest, Verizon, AT&T, FedEx, or Sprint commercial, not to mention the frequent shots of Gatorade containers. Ugh…

A tOSU loss is also good business for broyhill.

i cannot imagine that ou/fla will draw the viewership that tex/usc had.

tex/usc was the culmination of a couple of years of drama beginning with the impression shared by many viewers that usc had been the best team of 2003 and that they had been cheated of the chance to prove it. then the great drama of the 2004 season rose bowl and vy’s thrilling heroism began the whetting of the appetite of the whole nation to see vy and texas get a chance.

two powerful locomotives raced through their schedules once texas had cleared the huge hurdle of beating ohio state at home at night.

had either of those teams stubbed a toe or had either been rooked somehow out of playing that game, the whole nation would have felt cheated. when the time came for the game, after weeks of hearing that usc was a team for the ages, any less game than transpired would have been a real shame. but what happened will be spoken of when most of us here today are gone.

nothing like that kind of drama surrounds thursday’s game. very few championship games will have anything like the kind of buildup tex/usc had. moreover, this year many, many people don’t seem to feel that ou/fla is the best match up. national writers over and again have complained bitterly about the outcome this year.

my favorite paragraph of a whole season of favorite paragraphs might have been this one from sports illustrated earlier today:

“In what system does an undefeated team that beat six bowl teams, including the No. 1 team for the last half of the season, have no shot at the title? In what system does a former No. 1 team that only played one bad half in September and would be favored to win the national championship by every sports book have no chance to win the championship? And in what system does another former No. 1 team that loses one game on one freaky play get passed over for a title shot in favor of a team it beat on a neutral field by 10 points? It’s a system so absurd and illogical that only Paris Hilton might be able to understand it.”

whatever the viewership turns out to be thursday, i bet a fair chunk of it will be people tuning in to see get theirs. or curiosity to see if one or both of the teams will try to pull a crater job. i just can’t imagine there is enough of that to turn big numbers.

“Personally, I don’t think I can take another Ford F-150, Allstate, Tostitos, Southwest, Verizon, AT&T, FedEx, or Sprint commercial, not to mention the frequent shots of Gatorade containers. Ugh…”

Does advertising work? Just did.

that’s weird. i put ‘insert team name’ flanked by left caret and right caret signs (if that’s what they are called) in the last paragraph between ‘tuning in to see’ and ‘get theirs’. maybe those things are comment delimiters in this environment.

say, something else for readers here now who may not have seen this previously. it is an excellent analysis of fourth and two from the tex/usc game written, i gather, by a usc follower. many people — myself included — were surprised that bush (no, not that bush) wasn’t on the field for that play. the writer here presents a very cogent line of reasoning that explains it. most of the regular posters here probably understood the situation already, but i didn’t. (for that matter, i didn’t really understand why kelson didn’t intercept that ball until the ou drop in the end zone against us this year. i’m kind of dense.)

the writer goes on to pare down the fourth and two play, moment by moment, with pics, explaining how texas stopped that play and what went wrong for usc.

i think it is an exceptional read. brian robison really get his due.

http://www.trojanfootballanalysis.com/rose_bowl_4th_2.html