Week 8 TV Ratings from Sports Media

MCMLXXX · October 24

College football TV ratings 2024 - Sports Media Watch

week 8 college football viewership

Edited October 24 by MCMLXXX

BigWillie · October 24

25 minutes ago, MCMLXXX said:

College football TV ratings 2024 - Sports Media Watch

Our game was way more exciting than the Dakotas game that bumped us. Maybe ESPN will learn from that move.

Glory to the Green · October 24

No other ESPNU? Let’s see what the ESPN2 crowd ratings look like this week. It should be a good game. Hopefully we get some eyeballs.

MCMLXXX · October 24

3 hours ago, BigWillie said:

Our game was way more exciting than the Dakotas game that bumped us. Maybe ESPN will learn from that move.

My guess is that because Texas was playing, they decided to go after viewers in an entirely different part of the Country that are not big SEC fans.

SUMG · October 24

untjim1995 · October 24

How many UNT grads watched the Texas-UGa game? At least 100k? 200k?

MeanGreen22 · October 24

No really surprising. ESPNU is not a good ratings channel to begin with. In week 5, USF v Tulane only drew 41k on the U and they weren't going up against a top 5 matchup

I'm more interested to see this weeks numbers.

Edited October 24 by MeanGreen22

Side.Show.Joe · October 24

A massive disappointment. Even with a better opponent, we end up with worse rating. I'll keep saying it..... I wish we would make more of an attempt to promote our games in DFW. We can do better than 30K.

untjim1995 · October 25

5 hours ago, Side.Show.Joe said:

A massive disappointment. Even with a better opponent, we end up with worse rating. I'll keep saying it..... I wish we would make more of an attempt to promote our games in DFW. We can do better than 30K.

I’d be thrilled if we ever got 30k to attend a game at DATCU, much less watch us on TV.

NT80 · October 25

8 hours ago, SUMG said:

I think that says more about Memphis, conference favorites, not having the National image and media pull they and the PAC say they have.

UNTLifer · October 25

How accurate are these numbers? Honest question. It states that this is an estimate. What is that based off of?

Jason Howeth · October 25

These numbers are pitiful, and I'm with everyone else who thinks the university should be doing much more to inform the alumni in the DFW that we're on national television. The base assumption of most UNT grads is that our football team isn't good enough to be on national TV, so they never look. As someone said earlier, run some ads during prime time local news. Heck, any time after 5pm for the entire week. Contact sports bars and pubs all over the DFW and, heck, pay them to keep our game on. Get the word out.

As for the Memphis numbers, I still discount it a little bit for being on ESPNU. We know that channel usually isn't included with whatever cable package people have when they get ESPN and ESPN2, so it makes sense that people wouldn't be able to watch. Still, we need to do a better job.

Green Otaku · October 25

9 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

How accurate are these numbers? Honest question. It states that this is an estimate. What is that based off of?

You've never heard of the Nielsen ratings? The thing all advertisers use to set commercial pricing?

Green Otaku · October 25

3 minutes ago, Jason Howeth said:

These numbers are pitiful, and I'm with everyone else who thinks the university should be doing much more to inform the alumni in the DFW that we're on national television. The base assumption of most UNT grads is that our football team isn't good enough to be on national TV, so they never look. As someone said earlier, run some ads during prime time local news. Heck, any time after 5pm for the entire week. Contact sports bars and pubs all over the DFW and, heck, pay them to keep our game on. Get the word out.

As for the Memphis numbers, I still discount it a little bit for being on ESPNU. We know that channel usually isn't included with whatever cable package people have when they get ESPN and ESPN2, so it makes sense that people wouldn't be able to watch. Still, we need to do a better job.

Our game was also on the at the same time as Texas vs Georgia, the highest rated game of the season. There was also LSU vs. Arkansas, and a few other games.

untjim1995 · October 25

16 minutes ago, Green Otaku said:

Our game was also on the at the same time as Texas vs Georgia, the highest rated game of the season. There was also LSU vs. Arkansas, and a few other games.

Exactly. These two games had plenty of degreed UNT alums watching their t-shirt teams play at the same time as their alma mater.

Green Otaku · October 25

1 hour ago, untjim1995 said:

Exactly. These two games had plenty of degreed UNT alums watching their t-shirt teams play at the same time as their alma mater.

Sadly probably true.

BigWillie · October 25

Tomorrow, it looks like the main competiton in our time slot is Notre Dame vs Navy. It will be the primary on ABC, but this is lining up to have a potential to have lots of eyeballs on it.

UNTLifer · October 25

4 hours ago, Green Otaku said:

You've never heard of the Nielsen ratings? The thing all advertisers use to set commercial pricing?

Oh, I've heard of them. In my 50+ years on this earth, I've never run into anyone that was polled or participated in these ratings.

NT80 · October 25

41 minutes ago, BigWillie said:

Tomorrow, it looks like the main competiton in our time slot is Notre Dame vs Navy. It will be the primary on ABC, but this is lining up to have a potential to have lots of eyeballs on it.

Also at 11 am is:

Nebraska @ #4 Ohio St,

Wash @ #13 Indiana,

OU at #18 Ole Miss,

Ga Tech @ Va Tech,

UNC @ Va,

Charlotte @ Memphis

BigWillie · October 25

13 minutes ago, NT80 said:

Also at 11 am is:

Nebraska @ #4 Ohio St,

Wash @ #13 Indiana,

OU at #18 Ole Miss,

Ga Tech @ Va Tech,

UNC @ Va,

Charlotte @ Memphis

Yep, just figured the two ranked teams would be the biggest competition.

Green Otaku · October 25

1 hour ago, UNTLifer said:

Oh, I've heard of them. In my 50+ years on this earth, I've never run into anyone that was polled or participated in these ratings.

It's a small sample size, about 100k people that reflects the makeup of the US. It's not surprising you've never met anyone considering the population is over 300M people.

ntmeangreen11 · October 26

Look at the games on ESPNU in that time slot in the weeks before, it's just a channel no one checks for. Hopefully we draw more eyeballs tomorrow morning.

Week 7- Marshall/Georgia Southern 7 PM- 15k

Week 6- JMU/ULM 6 PM - 42k

Week 5- MTSU/Memphis 630 PM - 39k