As most of know, and have briefly discussed here, the college football playoff saw 40ish percent drop in viewership, compared to last year. This year's playoff games were played on New Years eve, last year's were not. Many people saw this coming, but the college football playoff chose ignore it. For some reason, I find this whole situation enthralling, so I put together a quick survey together to poll TKP readers on their 2015 College Football viewing habits. I'll report back with stats in a few days or so.
Anyways, Stew Mandel and Bruce Feldman interviewed Bill Hancock after the numbers were released, and asked some pretty good questions:
Some highlights I found interesting:
- Hancock thinks the low ratings were the result of a combination of things: Game time, less teams with national interests and less competitive scores.
- Hancock does not want to rush to conclusions - emphasized that they are currently gathering information that won't be analyzed until after the national championship AND that they will continue to analyze trends over the next few years before making any changes to the schedule
- Listeners were reminded that the Rose & Sugar bowls both signed contracts with ESPN for New Years Day before the CFP had even decided a playoff format
- Bruce tried to discuss the hypocrisy of protecting the Rose Bowl's NYD tradition while trying to 'force' a new tradition on the viewers. Hancock and Bruce disagreed on this.
UPDATE: Survey Results
So, little did I know how limited the free survey monkey feature was... there were 133 responses, but I can only see the first 100, and I cannot see the correlation between stats (ie, how many 21-25 year old had a conflict preventing them from watching game). Anyways... here's a link to the stats. Some things that stood out to me:
- 36 of the first 100 people surveyed missed part or all of game 1 due to a conflict.
- 43 of the first 100 people surveyed missed part or all of game 2 due to a conflict.
- 32 of the first 100 people surveyed watched most/all of game 1 intently, compared to only 5 people(!) who watched all/most of game 2
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