NDSU Football TV Ratings

[Professor Chaos]

Most games take over 3 hours. We are the exception since we ran out the clock for the entire 2nd half

Last nights Bama/Georgia game was 3 hours and 41 minutes. If you start at 11 am, the games not over until 2:40 and then you get the post game celebration, which is fun

Average college football game is about 3 hours 20 minutes... God forbid they could only have the first 20-30 minutes of the NFL pregame on ESPN or ABC instead of both.

[Hammerhead]

Some of our friends watched it because of us, but turned it at halftime

Mrs. Hammerhead gets an annual text from her uncle in the Twin Cities whenever the Bison are in the championship game and the only other communication we typically have is exchanging Christmas letters.

[IndyBison]

It's a small niche but many of the officials I know watch the FCS Championship game. But they also watch the D2, D3, and NAIA championships. We are weird like that.

[El_Chapo]

early reports:
335,000 households (Late night games like this have so many at the bars/clubs & undercounted)

it beat the other 2 FS1 games that day & ESPN Late game
it's FS1 & 11pm.eastern.

FS1 K State was 585k. Iowa St 407k.... so it's a fine number

[NDSUstudent]

Should have everything but the Arizona game updated...

[Professor Chaos]

Should have everything but the Arizona game updated...

NDSU/Arizona drew 335k on FS1: https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/s...rk-finals.html

[El_Chapo]

NDSU/Arizona drew 335k on FS1: https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/s...rk-finals.html

3 months ago I had those !#s choas

[NDSUstudent]

Now if somebody could just find the 2011 title game.

[Professor Chaos]

1.05M viewers on average for NDSU/UIW last Friday on ESPN2: https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/s...rk-finals.html

Really good number... not quite as good as the JMU semi last year but, let's be honest, JMU is a draw on TV and both of these last 2 Friday night semis have significantly outperformed the previous few years in terms of average viewers and that's saying something considering the subscribers ESPN has lost in that time.


Consequently, I was curious so I looked up SDSU's numbers for the 11AM Saturday quarterfinal since that's traditionally been NDSU's time slot and it was down from the 1.7-2M that NDSU traditionally drew in that slot at about 1.526M (https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/s...rk-finals.html. SDSU/Montana St only drew 598K last Saturday but that's not too surprising considering it was a snoozer and had to go up against NFL games and bowl games (https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/s...rk-finals.html).

[HerdBot]

1.05M viewers on average for NDSU/UIW last Friday on ESPN2: https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/s...rk-finals.html

Really good number... not quite as good as the JMU semi last year but, let's be honest, JMU is a draw on TV and both of these last 2 Friday night semis have significantly outperformed the previous few years in terms of average viewers and that's saying something considering the subscribers ESPN has lost in that time.


Consequently, I was curious so I looked up SDSU's numbers for the 11AM Saturday quarterfinal since that's traditionally been NDSU's time slot and it was down from the 1.7-2M that NDSU traditionally drew in that slot at about 1.526M (https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/s...rk-finals.html. SDSU/Montana St only drew 598K last Saturday but that's not too surprising considering it was a snoozer and had to go up against NFL games and bowl games (https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/s...rk-finals.html).

2021 JMU semi was just a tad bit better and like you said, who the hell is Incarnate Word? Great team but nobody knows them. If we can crack 3 million for Frisco, it would be 5 million viewers for the season