Week 9 TV Ratings

[MCMLXXX]

130k 

College football TV ratings 2024 - Sports Media Watch

[keith]

Ouch.  Lowest rated game on ESPN2 for the week.  We took one for the conference.  Queue up the usual excuses.

[untjim1995]

Our university has over 46k students. 324k alumni in the DFW metro area, Denton has over 155k people living in the city, the entire Denton County has over 1 million residents, and we can get 130k to watch our Homecoming game against a regional opponent in Tulane on TV at 11:00 in the morning when the other regional CFB option on at the same time were OU and Ole Miss. IOW, no Texas, no Texas A&M, no LSU, no Texas Tech, no TCU, no Baylor, no Oklahoma State, no SMU, and no Arkansas on at the same time...

That's apathy...and it's the absolute biggest rival we will always have here. 

[MeanGreen22]

50k jump from the FAU game. Ratings are a joint effort for both fanbases. When you take out their OU and K State games, not like Tulane been killing it either. Not an unique problem to UNT.

[Big Z]

Awful 

SHSU and FIU drew a bigger rating 

[Graddean]

Our game was the only one in our time slot not to have at least one team from a power conference as competition.  The SHSU -FIU game was on Tuesday night without major college football competition.  

[untjim1995]

6 hours ago, MeanGreen22 said:

50k jump from the FAU game. Ratings are a joint effort for both fanbases. When you take out their OU and K State games, not like Tulane been killing it either. Not a unique problem to UNT.

Tulane is like SMU, a small private school in a big city. They aren’t gonna drive a big number. But why we don’t is beyond sad—pathetic really. 

[Big Z]

9 hours ago, Graddean said:

Our game was the only one in our time slot not to have at least one team from a power conference as competition.  The SHSU -FIU game was on Tuesday night without major college football competition.  

But it was the first ESPN 2 college football on a Saturday! 

Did bars and restaurants not have ESPN 2 on? 

[Green Otaku]

21 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

Our university has over 46k students. 324k alumni in the DFW metro area, Denton has over 155k people living in the city, the entire Denton County has over 1 million residents, and we can get 130k to watch our Homecoming game against a regional opponent in Tulane on TV at 11:00 in the morning when the other regional CFB option on at the same time were OU and Ole Miss. IOW, no Texas, no Texas A&M, no LSU, no Texas Tech, no TCU, no Baylor, no Oklahoma State, no SMU, and no Arkansas on at the same time...

That's apathy...and it's the absolute biggest rival we will always have here. 

Agree. That apathy is across all generations of grads too, or else we wouldn't be pulling such low ratings.

[Coffee and TV]

12 hours ago, Graddean said:

Our game was the only one in our time slot not to have at least one team from a power conference as competition.  The SHSU -FIU game was on Tuesday night without major college football competition.  

Tuesday night - most college football fans putting something on. Saturday morning at 11 - 6 other games to flip through. 

[drex]

The UNT administration has worked hard to ensure the failure of intercollegiate athletics...check out the demographics.

[Coffee and TV]

20 minutes ago, drex said:

The UNT administration has worked hard to ensure the failure of intercollegiate athletics...check out the demographics.

This seems to be some sort of shock for you old-timers but any campus this large is going to have a sizeable number of weirdos. Granted I haven't stepped in a classroom in over 15 years but UNT is nobody's destination school, it's the school you continue your education at when you graduate from a local high school. UNT is the transition between working full time in an office and part-time at the coffee shop, we are a commuter college. There is not some high ratio of football haters attending this place, or you'd see a lot more left wing activity if there was. 

[MeanGreenMat]

50 minutes ago, Coffee and TV said:

This seems to be some sort of shock for you old-timers but any campus this large is going to have a sizeable number of weirdos. Granted I haven't stepped in a classroom in over 15 years but UNT is nobody's destination school, it's the school you continue your education at when you graduate from a local high school. UNT is the transition between working full time in an office and part-time at the coffee shop, we are a commuter college. There is not some high ratio of football haters attending this place, or you'd see a lot more left wing activity if there was. 

I agree, UNT is a great school for the atypical college student. Spread across the metroplex, working while attending, tend to be older, etc.

 

I love this school because it gave me a second chance to be all I can be. But I wouldn’t say I have UNT traditions instilled in me. I’ll support though because it’s a fun. 

[97and03]

There are so many more students now excited to attend NT than back in our days. And as someone said, any large school has a bunch of weirdos. It works the other way also, so there are bunch of sports fans also. Certainly enough to fill the student section. Certainly enough to fill the rest of the stadium once they are alumni. What’s the common factor that keeps that from happening?

40 years of failure. 

Edited October 31 by 97and03

[untcampbell]

I didn't like my FIRST school. At all (well except from my seats on the 45-yard line at Texas Memorial Stadium in the Fall of my Freshman and Sophomore years, and during college baseball season year one). When I transferred to North Texas, I decided to love where I was. Everything about it. It is still my school, my team. And I haven't watched an entire UT game since. They are the Dallas Cowboys to me. They spend a lot of money, buy a lot of stuff and men, and very rarely do their fans get their money's worth.

My team does, but then again it is a lot cheaper to be a devout and passionate fan at North Texas than it is to be a fan at UT. Still, I know a lot of folks give less treasure than I to their team and don't feel they get their money's worth.

God blessed me with North Texas, knowing my cheap ass can't afford to be a UT fan. 

 

Flame on.

GMG

Edited November 1 by untcampbell

[BigWillie]

5 hours ago, 97and03 said:

There are so many more students now excited to attend NT than back in our days. And as someone said, any large school has a bunch of weirdos. It works the other way also, so there are bunch of sports fans also. Certainly enough to fill the student section. Certainly enough to fill the rest of the stadium once they are alumni. What’s the common factor that keeps that from happening?

40 years of failure. 

Be careful. You might have people talking about how we are 5-3 and the best start since xxxx.

[Salsa_Verde]

On 10/30/2024 at 2:36 PM, untjim1995 said:

Our university has over 46k students. 324k alumni in the DFW metro area, Denton has over 155k people living in the city, the entire Denton County has over 1 million residents, and we can get 130k to watch our Homecoming game against a regional opponent in Tulane on TV at 11:00 in the morning when the other regional CFB option on at the same time were OU and Ole Miss. IOW, no Texas, no Texas A&M, no LSU, no Texas Tech, no TCU, no Baylor, no Oklahoma State, no SMU, and no Arkansas on at the same time...

That's apathy...and it's the absolute biggest rival we will always have here. 

Not winning big time games perpetuates apathy across all generations of North Texas alumni. Did they win the game? No…and for a lot of people they’re not going to bother because they already know the outcome. 

[Salsa_Verde]

16 hours ago, 97and03 said:

There are so many more students now excited to attend NT than back in our days. And as someone said, any large school has a bunch of weirdos. It works the other way also, so there are bunch of sports fans also. Certainly enough to fill the student section. Certainly enough to fill the rest of the stadium once they are alumni. What’s the common factor that keeps that from happening?

40 years of failure. 

Thank you.