Boise State-Va. Tech A Ratings Winner For ESPN

by srr50 on Sep 7, 2010 8:23 PM CDT in Texas Longhorns and Other Football

Boise's States last minute 33-30 win over Virginia Tech was easily the most-watched college football game of the weekend.

The game pulled an overnight rating of 6.8 on ESPN. One ratings point translates into approximately 1.65 million viewers. The game pulled more than twice as many viewers as the next game on any network -- LSU/North Carolina, which reported a 2.8 rating.

In fact the 6.8 rating is close to the highest-rated college game ever on ESPN. That was last year's USC-Ohio State contest, which drew a 7.2 rating.

The Miama (Ohio)-Florida contest drew a 2.7 rating -- best for Saturday afternoon.

Texas 34-17 win over Rice drew a 1.8 overnight rating, which translates to approximately 2.9 million viewers.

The weekend was a good start for ESPN, which is coming off its most-viewed regular season since 1994 and its most-viewed bowl season ever.

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It was a great game and it lived up to the hype. I hope there is a game like that every weekend.

by Newy25 on Sep 7, 2010 8:32 PM CDT reply actions

srr, what do you think Bellmont will think of that Texas number?

by Bob in Houston on Sep 7, 2010 9:18 PM CDT reply actions

BIH — they will think the competition on NBC and ABC cut into the number. Notre Dame’s win over Purdue drew a 2.3 rating, almost double what last year’s opener pulled. Haven’t seen any numbers for Michigan-UConn, but it was on at the same time as well.

by srr50 on Sep 7, 2010 10:01 PM CDT reply actions

Just Rice not being a directional helps. I understand why we play weak teams, but I never want to play a directional again. It looks even worse and I suspect leads to really bad ratings (or PPV).

by fear_the_cow on Sep 7, 2010 10:07 PM CDT reply actions

Do they know how many watched it on the espn3 innertubes? DO they know how many streamed it so folks with neither cable nor espn3 could watch?

by Tex Long on Sep 7, 2010 11:36 PM CDT reply actions

Gotta wonder how much of that 2.9 [i]million[/i] (or however you do italics on BC) was fans of future opponents scouting us? I’ve had more jack-hole so-called “friends” who went to other schools ask me “what happened to Texas? (tee-hee)” than I can shake a dead cat at (OK, so I’m mixing metaphors…big deal)

by Orange Marrow on Sep 7, 2010 11:38 PM CDT reply actions