ESPN drew a 6.8 overnight rating for Monday's Boise State/Virginia Tech game, up 21% from Miami/Florida State last year (5.6), and easily the highest overnight of the weekend for a college football game on the ESPN family of networks.
No other college football game on ESPN/ESPN2 or ABC drew even a 3.0 overnight, with LSU/North Carolina coming the closest (2.8).
To put the numbers in perspective, the most-viewed college football game ever on ESPN -- USC/Ohio State last September -- drew a not-much-higher 7.2 overnight.
The positive is we put on a show for America. The negative is we lost. What's to be determined is how the game will affect our national profile.
ESPN Earns Hefty 6.8 Overnight For Boise St. Win [Sports Media Watch]
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perspective
atleast we will be known as the only major team with the cajones to play them. we have a good reputation and this is why espn loves us.
Who Knows if it Would Have Helped...
We could have left the game scheduled in October and still shown off our grapefruits. I like playing against a big non-conference opponent each year. However, going forward I'm in favor of at least one warm up.
+1
though that didn't help much vs lsu.
October would have been good
I like our chances in October, for the sole reason that it came down to the wire, and our learning curve should be exponential compared to a more linear one by all of the BSU veterans.
And that LSU team were monsters. I think our team at the end of last year would have done better against Bama, and this year we would do better against Boise St after a few warm ups...but I still think LSU would have spanked us in 2007 no matter when we played.
More cajones
I think we need to go to Boise and play them. I also think we should schedule the hardest game we can each year, the losing streak has to stop sometime doesn't it? I like the warm up game as well but it was good to see a great game unlike the snoozing, personal foul, gang sign flashing, so you think you can dance the normal FSU - Miami match up was the past couple years. Until the ACC brings up its rep, and that will take a while, the only 1 or 2 loss team that will ever make the NC game will come from the Big 10ish, Tex/OK or SEC. That's the way the BCS is crafted. Losing a game, whether it is week 1 or 2 will doom us every year. But I agree, we flip flop JMU and Boise and maybe there is a different outcome.
Home and Home
Going out to Boise and having them come to Lane would be pretty cool. I'm itching for another shot against them. I don't think it'll happen anytime soon because our non-conference schedule is full and their stadium is small (less fans == less money).