New Orleans Bowl Does Good In Ratings

MeanGreen61 · January 25, 2008

Posted by Arkstfan.

R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl fares well in ratings.

Posted by Administrator on January 25th 2008 to General

The New Orleans Bowl faced a sparse crowd but the game was a success for ESPN.

The R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl pitting FAU against Memphis was the most watched New Orleans Bowl since the inaugural game drawing 1.6 million viewers.

Overall of the 32 bowl games the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl was 26th among the bowl games in viewer-ship.

A number of bowl games had outstanding years in drawing viewers. The Capital One had its largest audience since 1998. The Chick-Fil-A Bowl drew the second largest ESPN bowl game audience since 1990. The Holiday Bowl audience was up 7% and was only behind the Chick-Fil-A among ESPN games this year. The Music City and Motor City each drew their largest audiences since the first games. Champs Sports and Meineke Car Care Bowls drew their best TV audience ever. Las Vegas Pure Pioneer had its best television audience since 2002. The Poinsettia Bowl doubled its tv viewers over last year. Pappajohns.com drew the second largest ESPN2 bowl audience since 2002. Each BCS game on Fox won that night’s ratings, the first time that has happened since the BCS began.

Games drawing a smaller audience than New Orleans:

-The television audience for the ESPN2 telecast of the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl was slightly larger than the audience for the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl matching East Carolina and Boise State on ESPN.

-The NFL Network is still struggling to find a television audience as the Texas Bowl pitting Houston and TCU drew a fifth of the television audience despite being a great success at the gate.

-The Humanitarian Bowl matching Georgia Tech and Fresno State also on ESPN2 drew less than half the households of the New Orleans Bowl.

-Another NFL Network telecast, the Insight.com Bowl pitting Oklahoma State against Indiana drew slightly better than a fourth of the households brought in by the New Orleans Bowl.

-The International Bowl in Toronto on ESPN featuring Rutgers vs. Ball State drew a slightly smaller television audience than the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.

- The GMAC Bowl in Mobile drew about two-thirds of the television audience of the New Orleans Bowl for its Tulsa vs. Bowling Green game.