We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog to bring you this note: Ratings for the Orange Bowl between Virginia Tech and Cincinnati were 6.1, the lowest-rating ever for a BCS game.
The number crushed the previous low of 7.6 for the 2007 Orange Bowl between Louisville and Wake Forest.
Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News sums it up: "Congratulations to savvy viewers who won't be pulled in to watching a meaningless college football game between two faceless teams even if the BCS letters are attached. The road to a playoff will be littered with low-rated BCS bowl games.
"How many more folks would have tuned in if it had been a playoff match-up on the road to crowning a real national champion?"
Meaningless? Faceless? What a pompous dick.
Posted by: | January 03, 2009 at 09:08 PM
And we'll just conviently ignore the 12.6 rating the Rose Bowl did...
Posted by: Sean | January 04, 2009 at 02:35 PM
This site will be posting the ratings for all the games after the bowls. The Rose Bowl's numbers were up after a huge decline last year.
Posted by: Jay Christensen | January 04, 2009 at 02:43 PM
Not surprised - don't see alot of interest west of the Mississippi in a Cincy / Va Tech matchup, as ratings indicate
Posted by: typemike | January 04, 2009 at 09:15 PM
Playoff? What ratings would we have gotten for an Oklahoma/Alabama game, which is what the pre-BCS bowl system probably would have given us.
The slotting system and BCS destroyed the bowls which made college football unique. Playoffs will be the final nail in the coffin.
I will say this for the BCS: it made Crabtree's catch a legendary play. You won't get a single regular season play THAT meaningful under a playoff.
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