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Sep 3, 2012
4:16:12pm
I'll provide some numbers here
None of them are based on game date/time slot. I'm just showing ratings overall of games that contained at least 1 Non-BCS team in the game. And I include ND as a non-BCS team.

Rating Network Week Away Home Other Info
4.1 ABC Week 13 Notre Dame Stanford
3.1 ABC Week 14 Southern Miss Houston C-USA Championship
2.7 NBC Week 3 Michigan State Notre Dame
2.6 NBC Week 8 USC Notre Dame
2.4 NBC Week 1 South Florida Notre Dame
2.3 ESPN Week 1 Boise State Georgia
2.3 ESPN Week 1 TCU Baylor
1.6 ESPN2 Week 2 BYU Texas
1.6 ESPN Week 4 Central Florida BYU
1.6 ESPN Week 5 Utah State BYU
1.5 ESPN Week 1 BYU Ole Miss
1.5 ESPN Week 3 Penn State Temple
1.4 ESPN Week 1 Marshall West Virginia
1.4 NBC Week 11 Notre Dame Maryland
1.4 ESPN Week 2 Florida Int Louisville
1.3 CBS Week 10 Army Air Force
1.3 NBC Week 9 Navy Notre Dame
1.2 ESPN2 Week 3 Navy South Carolina
1.2 NBC Week 6 Air Force Notre Dame
1.1 ESPN Week 6 Boise State Fresno State
1.0 ESPN Week 5 Notre Dame Purdue
1.0 ESPN Week 7 Hawaii San Jose State
0.9 ESPN2 Week 1 W Michigan Michigan
0.9 ESPN Week 9 BYU TCU
0.7 NBC Week 13 Grambling Southern
0.6 ESPN2 Week 14 Ohio N Illinois MAC Championship
0.6 ESPN2 Week 3 Utah BYU
0.5 ESPN2 Week 1 Colorado Hawai
0.5 ESPN2 Week 4 E Michigan Penn State
0.4 ESPN2 Week 10 C Michigan Kent State
0.4 ESPN2 Week 2 Fl Atlantic Michigan State
0.4 ESPN2 Week 5 Ole Miss Fresno State
0.3 ESPN2 Week 11 Idaho BYU
0.3 ESPN2 Week 14 BYU Hawaii
0.3 Versus Week 4 Nebraska Wyoming
0.3 Versus Week 8 Air Force Boise State

That is 36 games listed above and BYU was one side of 8 of those contests.

Now for a list of games that had zero BCS teams involved in the game. (Still including ND)

Rating Network Week Away Home Other Info
3.1 ABC Week 14 Southern Miss Houston C-USA Championship
1.6 ESPN Week 4 Central Florida BYU
1.6 ESPN Week 5 Utah State BYU
1.3 CBS Week 10 Army Air Force
1.3 NBC Week 9 Navy Notre Dame
1.2 NBC Week 6 Air Force Notre Dame
1.1 ESPN Week 6 Boise State Fresno State
1.0 ESPN Week 7 Hawaii San Jose State
0.9 ESPN Week 9 BYU TCU
0.7 NBC Week 13 Grambling Southern
0.6 ESPN2 Week 14 Ohio N Illinois MAC Championship
0.4 ESPN2 Week 10 C Michigan Kent State
0.3 ESPN2 Week 11 Idaho BYU
0.3 ESPN2 Week 14 BYU Hawaii
0.3 Versus Week 8 Air Force Boise State


There was only 15 games that were on a network capable of receiving a high enough rating to be listed by Nielsen that contained zero BCS teams (includes ND). Note that 9 of them contained at least one team with a perceived "national" following based on a different kind of make-up of their fan base (religious/military). They are Army, Navy, AF, ND and BYU - I suppose TCU with the "Christian" fans could fit in that as well but since their game was against BYU it already falls under that.

It took a conference championship game on ABC where if Houston wins they go to a BCS game to beat UCF vs BYU on ESPN on a Friday night.

Note also that BYU was in 5 of those 15 games.

One thing to note - if ESPN really felt that there were better games/teams that could have pulled in better ratings than BYU in their time slots they would not have left us in those time slots...they would have pushed us to even less desirable time slots to meet their contractual obligations and played different teams at the times we played. They also would not have put us in more games than their minimum contract required them to do.
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