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Message: [QUOTE="omniorange, post: 2855106, member: 636"] It's still worth it at nearly the halfway point of the current contract. In terms of ratings/viewership here's the data: 2014-2018 Current NY6 Bowls + CFP NC Game Viewership: 526.586 million viewers* 2009-2013 Current NY6 Bowls + BCS NC Game Viewership: 493.170 million viewers *This total is not taking into account the 20 plus million viewers tomorrow night's game is likely to have. One might counter that in the BCS era there were only 4 BCS Bowls and starting in the 2006-07 season the NC game was hosted by one of the four sites the following week after their official Bowl was played a week earlier. So the above data is skewed since the Cotton and Peach data from 2009-2013 is being used when they were "lesser bowls". And this would be a legitimate point to make. However, expanding the data out to include the NC games, current NY6 Bowl games, plus the following 7 bowls games - Citrus, Outback, Alamo, Orlando Bowl (Champs, Russell Athletic, Camping World), Holiday, Music City, and Gator the aggregate data is as follows: 2014-2018 - 700.393 million viewers 2009-2013 - 698.650 million viewers Again, the 2014-2018 doesn't have the 20+ million likely viewers for tomorrow night's game but it is closer than just using the NC game plus the current NY6 bowl games. The winners appear to be (assuming tomorrow nights' game only gets the lowest number of viewers the BCS NC game received between 2009-2013): [u][b]Winners:[/b][/u] Cotton - up 34% Orange - up 31% Sugar - up 29% Peach - up 21% Music City - up 19.5% Gator - up 18% (move from ESPN2 to ESPN may have helped) NC Game - up 2.6% Rose - up 2.6% [u][b]Losers:[/b][/u] Orlando - down 7.5% Fiesta - down 11% Alamo - down 14% Holiday - down 18% (first three years in new era on a trajectory to be a 19% winner, but appears move to FS1 tanked that big time) Citrus - down 26.5% Outback - down 40% (move to ESPN2 may have hurt) If any one has additional insight, for either a winner or loser, I hope you share. Cheers, Neil [/QUOTE]

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