I do think college football faces a reckoning, but it will be based, as always, on money.
Fwiw I like watching college football, am a season ticket holder, and expect it will someday continue in a smaller, lower-budget, safer form (some day maybe we’ll dial it down to 8 or 10 game seasons).
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-f...an-11-2021
TV Ratings: College Football Playoff Championship Plummets
Alabama's blowout of Ohio State draws the smallest audience in the seven-year history of the title game.
The College Football Playoff championship game drew its smallest audience ever on Monday night.
Alabama's 52-24 rout of Ohio State in the title game averaged 18.65 million viewers across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, a drop of 27 percent — and almost 7 million viewers — compared to last year's title game (25.46 million). It was Monday's most watched program by a brobdingnagian margin among both total viewers and adults 18-49 (5.05 rating) but fell well short of every prior CFP championship game dating back to 2015.
The previous six title matchups averaged about 27.6 million viewers, and the low before Monday was 25.28 million for Clemson's blowout win over Alabama in 2019. Nearly all of the TV audience tuned into the main broadcast on ESPN, which drew 18.22 million viewers; ESPN2 and ESPNU combined for 435,000.
The title game, in fact, averaged fewer viewers than the 18.8 million for the two semifinal matchups on New Year's Day.
Fwiw I like watching college football, am a season ticket holder, and expect it will someday continue in a smaller, lower-budget, safer form (some day maybe we’ll dial it down to 8 or 10 game seasons).
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-f...an-11-2021
TV Ratings: College Football Playoff Championship Plummets
Alabama's blowout of Ohio State draws the smallest audience in the seven-year history of the title game.
The College Football Playoff championship game drew its smallest audience ever on Monday night.
Alabama's 52-24 rout of Ohio State in the title game averaged 18.65 million viewers across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, a drop of 27 percent — and almost 7 million viewers — compared to last year's title game (25.46 million). It was Monday's most watched program by a brobdingnagian margin among both total viewers and adults 18-49 (5.05 rating) but fell well short of every prior CFP championship game dating back to 2015.
The previous six title matchups averaged about 27.6 million viewers, and the low before Monday was 25.28 million for Clemson's blowout win over Alabama in 2019. Nearly all of the TV audience tuned into the main broadcast on ESPN, which drew 18.22 million viewers; ESPN2 and ESPNU combined for 435,000.
The title game, in fact, averaged fewer viewers than the 18.8 million for the two semifinal matchups on New Year's Day.