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Message: [QUOTE="omniorange, post: 1782252, member: 636"] Not sure how much the following data points will add to the discussion, but I did this analysis in January/February over on the Conference Realignment and ACC boards when it came out once again that the ACC was third behind the Greater 2 for the third year in a row in terms of football viewership but the B12 fans challenged that once again. The data comes from Sports Media Watch and includes only those games that would have aired as part of conference's tv contract, not road out-of-conference games such as the ACC games @ND which were part of the ND NBC contract or ACC/SEC rivalry games that were considered part of the SEC tv contract during this period. The only exceptions to this were the two Louisville home games in 2013 that made the cut, however Maryland home games from 2013 were excluded. Keep in mind this is only a three year analysis and we have a long way to go before the GORs run out. [B][U]Games with 10 million plus viewers[/U][/B]: ACC – 3; B12 – 0 [B][U]Games with between 9 million and 9.9 million viewers[/U][/B]: ACC – 0; B12 – 0 [B][U]Games with between 8 million and 8.9 million viewers[/U][/B]: ACC – 3; B12 - 0 [B][U]Games with between 7 million and 7.9 million viewers[/U][/B]: ACC – 4; B12 - 1 [B][U]Games with between 6 million and 6.9 million viewers[/U][/B]: ACC – 0; B12 – 2 [B][U]Games with between 5 million and 5.9 million viewers[/U][/B]: ACC – 6; B12 – 2 [B][U]Games with between 4 million and 4.9 million viewers[/U][/B]: ACC – 4; B12 – 6 [B][U]Games with between 3 million and 3.9 million viewers[/U][/B]: ACC – 9; B12 – 13 [B][U]Games with between 2 million and 2.9 million viewers[/U][/B]: ACC – 16; B12 – 22 [B][U]Games with between 1 million and 1.9 million viewers[/U][/B]: ACC – 26; B12 - 24 [B][U]Final Tally of all games with 1 million plus viewers overall[/U][/B]: ACC – 71 games, 250 plus million viewers, average 3.523 million viewers per game. B12 – 70 games, 189 plus million viewers, average 2.705 million viewers per game. Also as part of the discussion on the ACC boards posters wanted to know what the data showed in terms of ND's impact. So I thought this could best be demonstrated by showing the actual games which received at least 2 million plus viewers. [B][U]ACC 2015 football games that drew at least 2 million viewers[/U][/B]: 01. - Ohio State/VT (rating share 6.0; 10.585 million viewers) 02. - Clemson/UNC - ACC Championship game (rating share 4.1; 7.919 million viewers) 03. - ND/Clemson - (rating share 4.5; 7.647 million viewers) 03. - FSU/Clemson - (rating share 4.7; 7.563 million viewers) 05. - ND/UVa - (rating share 3.7; 5.744 million viewers) 06. - ND/Pitt - (rating share 2.5; 3.844 million viewers) 07. - Miami/FSU - (rating share 2.3; 3.502 million viewers) 08. - LSU/SU - (rating share 2.1; 3.204 million viewers) 09. - FSU/BC - (rating share 2.1; 3.148 million viewers) 10. - L'Ville/FSU - (rating share 1.9; 2.852 million viewers) 11. - Clemson/Miami - (rating share 1.8; 2.634 million viewers) 12. - SU/FSU - (rating share 1.8; 2.588 million viewers) 13. – USF/FSU – (not metered; 2.276 million viewers) 14. – UNC/VT – (rating share 1.4; 2.086 million viewers) [B][U]ACC 2014 football games that drew at least 2 million viewers[/U][/B]: 01. ND/FSU - (rating share 7.9; 13.25 million viewers) 02. GT/FSU - ACC Champship game - (rating 6.2; 10.15 million viewers) 03. FSU/Miami - (rating share 5.4; 8.74 million viewers) 04. Clemson/FSU - (rating share 4.5; 7.34 million viewers) 05. Florida/FSU - (rating share 3.5; 5.96 million viewers) 06. FSU/L'Ville - (rating share 3.1; 4.97 million viewers) 07. ND/SU - (rating share 2.6; 4.05 million viewers) 08. Miami/L'Ville - (rating share 2.3; 3.61 million viewers) 09. GT/VT - (rating share 2.1; 3.14 million viewers) 10. UCLA/UVa - (rating share 1.9; 2.92 million viewers) 10. UVa/VT - (rating share 1.7; 3.05 million viewers) 12. ECU/VT - (rating share 1.7; 2.56 million viewers) 13. SC/Clemson – (rating share 1.3; 2.12 million viewers) [B][U]ACC 2013 football games that drew at least 2 million viewers[/U][/B]: 01. Miami/FSU - (rating share 5.1; 8.35 million viewers) 02. Georgia/Clemson - (rating share 4.8; 8.14 million viewers) [I]03. Miami/Louisville - (rating share 3.5; 5.75 million viewers)*[/I] 04. FSU/Clemson - (rating share 3.4; 5.68 million viewers) 05. Duke/FSU - ACC Championship game - (rating share 3.4; 5.66 million viewers) 06. Florida/Miami - (rating share 3.1; 4.60 million viewers) 07. Alabama/VT - (rating share 3.0; 5.17 million viewers) 08. FSU/Pitt - (rating share 2.9; 4.47 million viewers) 09. Georgia/GT - (rating share 2.2; 3.53 million viewers) 10. ND/Pitt - (rating share 2.0; 3.03 million viewers) 11. Clemson/NC State - (rating share 1.7; 2.60 million viewers) 12. UNC/GT - (rating share 1.7; 2.33 million viewers) 13. VT/GT – (rating share 1.5; 2.31 million viewers) 14. MD/FSU – (rating share 1.5; 2.39 million viewers) [I]15. UCF/Louisville – (rating share 1.5; 2.22 million viewers)[/I] 16. Miami/UNC – (rating share 1.4; 2.18 million viewers) 17. Miami/Pitt – (rating share 1.4; 2.12 million viewers) 18. GT/Clemson – (rating share 1.4; 2.06 million viewers) *Miami/Louisville and UCF/Louisville were not technically ACC games for 2013, but since they were both Louisville home games, I included it in the above. Again, not sure how relevant the above data is to the overall discussion and any relevance must be tempered by the fact that it is still only three years worth of data. But it does bring into question does the B12 truly deserve a better overall TV contract than the ACC? Cheers, Neil [/QUOTE]

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