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Per Sports Media Watch:
http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/01/cfp-national-championship-ratings/
Looks like the doom and gloom predicted by some here didn't come to pass. Bad news for those of us hoping to avoid single-conference finals in the future as this didn't seem to impact the NCAA's pocketbook in the least.
It was an all-SEC affair, but College Football National Championship ratings neared an eight-year high in the metered markets nonetheless.
Monday’s Alabama-Georgia College Football Playoff National Championship had a 16.7 overnight rating across the ESPN family of networks, up 9% from last year (15.3) and up 4% from 2016 (16.0), both of which pit Alabama against Clemson. ESPN alone posted a 16.0.
Compared to the previous all-SEC national championship, Alabama-LSU in 2012, overnights jumped 21% from a 13.8.
The 16.7 overnight is the highest for the national championship since the first year of the playoff, Ohio State-Oregon in 2015 (18.9), and the second-highest since the game moved to ESPN in 2011.
http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/01/cfp-national-championship-ratings/
Looks like the doom and gloom predicted by some here didn't come to pass. Bad news for those of us hoping to avoid single-conference finals in the future as this didn't seem to impact the NCAA's pocketbook in the least.