Time, it appears, is on the Southeastern Conference's side. In fact, it's not even close.
Scott Bryant of Awful Announcing took a detailed look at the airtime devoted to conferences during the past two broadcasts of ESPN's "GameDay." The results from the three-hour telecasts are stunning.
The above chart shows that during the Oct. 25 telecast from Baton Rouge — site of the Mississippi-Louisiana State game — ESPN devoted over 62 minutes of airtime to the SEC. That's more than the rest of the conferences combined. The SEC received nearly four times more airtime than the runnerup Big Ten.
Granted, ESPN was broadcasting from an SEC venue, so Bryant thought it would only be fair to conduct the exercise last Saturday when the telecast originated from Morgantown, site of the Big 12 game between Texas Christian and West Virginia.
Although the results were somewhat more balanced, the SEC once again was a runaway winner, logging twice as much airtime as the Big 12.
Bryant asked if "Gameday" was "a show that goes 'where the best games are' or is it a narrative vehicle, and one where a single conference consistently receives substantially more airtime than any other?"
"GameDay" will be broadcasting Saturday from East Lansing, site of the Ohio State-Michigan State game. The Buckeye site Eleven Warriors takes a satirical look what viewers can likely expect.
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