Lowest Views Ever for Rose Bowl

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- 01/05/2023 at 7:39 AM #183682
  
  Josh
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  Article
- 01/05/2023 at 7:43 AM #183683
  
  Josh
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  Some key numbers from the article:
  
  -Viewership was 10.9 million.
  -Previous Rose Bowl low was 13.6 million (2016).
  -Still the most-watched non-playoff bowl this year; 2nd was Sugar Bowl at 9.6 million.
  -Semifinals drew 21.7 million and 22.4 million, respectively.
  - 01/06/2023 at 8:02 AM #183798
    
    2008 National Champ
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    The article is behind a paywall so I can’t check. All I could see was that the previous low was for Stanford-Iowa (Friday, Jan 1, 2016). #5 v #6 but two very small fanbases.
    
    The better comparison would be the 2017 Rose Bowl between SC & Penn State which was also on Monday, Jan 2.
- 01/05/2023 at 7:49 AM #183684
  
  dystopiamembrane
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  This was not a good time slot or match-up for the neutrals.
- 01/05/2023 at 8:00 AM #183685
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  Tony (admin)
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  Not surprising. The playoff games were two days prior.
- 01/05/2023 at 8:20 AM #183687
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  GameForAnyFuss
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  This is why you don’t move a game that’s literally always been played on New Year’s Day. January 2 was a horrible day for a game – a lot of people didn’t have the day off work.
  
  Screw the NFL.
  - 01/05/2023 at 9:34 AM #183697
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    tedward
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    The Rose Bowl has never been played on a Sunday. The fact that this game was played in this time slot has nothing to do with the NFL.
    - 01/05/2023 at 10:11 AM #183706
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      GameForAnyFuss
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      I stand corrected. But my points remain:
      
      1. Playing the game on January 2 hurt the ratings.
      2. Screw the NFL.
      - 01/05/2023 at 2:38 PM #183733
        
        2008 National Champ
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        I think you’ve got the order reversed
- 01/05/2023 at 8:23 AM #183688
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  MauchDawgUte
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  Given the outcome, maybe this was the best case scenario. 😉
  - 01/05/2023 at 8:43 AM #183689
    
    dystopiamembrane
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    Bowl games are always a crap-shoot. I hardly ever watch them.
- 01/05/2023 at 9:48 AM #183700
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  UteFanatic
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  Non-competitve games don’t draw well. Utah sucked and didn’t make it worth watching. Still the highest rated non CFP game.
  - 01/05/2023 at 10:04 AM #183703
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    UrbanLiar
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    Tied until the 3rd quarter
    - 01/05/2023 at 10:29 AM #183711
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      UteFanatic
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      Yeah, but Utah looked janky and boring. It was an unexciting and unexceptional game and didn’t lure in casual viewers. High-scoring, back-and-forth, close games always do better with TV ratings. That’s a big reason why last year’s Rose Bowl was was so highly viewed. It’s why this year’s CFP games broke viewership records.
      - 01/05/2023 at 11:45 AM #183719
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        DataUte
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        So games like the Cotton Bowl? Wait, Rose Bowl was still higher. No one knows what the game will be like until it’s being played.
        
        01/05/2023 at 1:25 PM #183725
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        UteFanatic
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        I mean, you can always point to exceptions but in general, high-scoring offensive shootouts get more viewers than boring, low scoring, ugly games.
        
        01/05/2023 at 2:40 PM #183734
        
        2008 National Champ
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        you’re not wrong. although i think playing games at 2 pm local time on a school day is a bigger factor than the type of offenses featured.
        
        01/05/2023 at 3:01 PM #183736
        
        DataUte
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        Kids had school on Jan 2? Man, your district must suck. Bank holiday, Markets closed -it was New Year’s Day observed. My kids don’t go back until Jan 10!
        
        01/05/2023 at 8:00 PM #183765
        
        2008 National Champ
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        sorry, maybe that was a local colloquialism. work=school, i.e. can’t go to the bar because it’s a school night.
        
        It may have been a bank/government holiday but not all of us work for those entities. Just like the morning bowls on Jan 2, the audience was reduced because many who would have Jan 1 off don’t have the same luxury.
        
        01/05/2023 at 3:06 PM #183737
        
        DataUte
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        I’m not totally sure when they ‘count’ how many viewers there are as people come and go, but the point remains that the Rose Bowl was the most watched game other than CFP. Likely other factors (day, time) than how the game went. Maybe it would have gone up if it was like last year’s back and forth and high scoring affair, but who will ever know. Might have been destined to be the lowest watched Rose Bowl no matter what as it needed 2.7M more viewers to tie the previous low. Maybe no one like Penn St. haha.
        
        01/05/2023 at 4:40 PM #183747
        
        UteFanatic
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        That’s the theory I’m going with. America is simply repulsed by an institution that allowed pedophilia and molestation to go on for years.
- 01/05/2023 at 10:00 AM #183702
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  NarfUte
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  Still the most watched non-playoff game. The Sugar Bowl was the second least watched sugar bowl in at least 30 years (after 2016, which was the lowest in 25 years) but hey let’s s**t on the rose bowl.
  - 01/05/2023 at 1:40 PM #183726
    
    //r00t4Utes
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    Guess I could look it up but, wasn’t last year’s the most watched
    
    Nope guess it got 16.9mil
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