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10:23a, 10/8/24




And here's viewership for previous Gamedays:









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10:24a, 10/8/24
pretty good? how'd the game do?
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In reply to bencgilmore • 10:33a, 10/8/24
bencgilmore said:
pretty good? how'd the game do?


1.9 million

Cal Football. It just means more.
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In reply to okaydo • 4:41p, 10/8/24
Wonder what time the games were played in week 6. Perhaps Cal had the biggest TV audientce for a night game, with a handicap. After all our game didn't start till 7:30 WEST COAST TIME!!!
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5:05p, 10/8/24
Looks like the Cal game was the highest rated cable TV game on the day!

Keep doing that and the Big 10 will come calling eventually.
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5:36p, 10/8/24
If we had any real marketing efforts in the athletic department, this could be leveraged not jsut for football, but for Cal sports as a whole. It's such low-hanging fruit to market to the entire East Bay......Cal is here to stay, an East Bay original, family friendly sports entertainment, etc.

We've been given a gift that we should be able to leverage. I think we can build upon the relationship with BART's marketing department.

let's not sqaunder this opportunity to re-position the brand of Cal sports and to some extent the entire University.
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In reply to TexasAgInTheBay • 5:37p, 10/8/24
TexasAgInTheBay said:
Looks like the Cal game was the highest rated cable TV game on the day!

Keep doing that and the Big 10 will come calling eventually.
Playing close games against top 10 teams is a recipe for viewership. Gee I wonder why didn't anyone else think of that?
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6:29p, 10/8/24
hard to believe that many people stayed tuned to the Mizzou game for the whole game. Maybe at the start it had 3M - but not for the 4th Quarter.
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In reply to TexasAgInTheBay • 6:43p, 10/8/24
TexasAgInTheBay said:
Looks like the Cal game was the highest rated cable TV game on the day!

Keep doing that and the Big 10 will come calling eventually.
Not if we bottle a game like we did.
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8:29p, 10/8/24
Just from the overall ratings, ESPN has to be pretty happy with the addition of Cal and Stanford into the ACC. Both have done quite well in viewership.
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In reply to ferCALgm2 • 8:34p, 10/8/24
ferCALgm2 said:
bencgilmore said:
pretty good? how'd the game do?


1.9 million

TV revenue baby! Oh wait....
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In reply to bluehenbear • 8:39p, 10/8/24
bluehenbear said:
ferCALgm2 said:
bencgilmore said:
pretty good? how'd the game do?


1.9 million

TV revenue baby! Oh wait....
fsu and clemsin thank you.
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In reply to bluehenbear • 8:53p, 10/8/24
bluehenbear said:
ferCALgm2 said:
bencgilmore said:
pretty good? how'd the game do?


1.9 million

TV revenue baby! Oh wait....

Helps make our case for staying in the Power 4 at the next realignment, though.
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In reply to sycasey • 10:36p, 10/8/24
sycasey said:
bluehenbear said:
ferCALgm2 said:
bencgilmore said:
pretty good? how'd the game do?


1.9 million

TV revenue baby! Oh wait....

Helps make our case for staying in the Power 4 at the next realignment, though.


Absolutely. And points out that our poor numbers in the past were due to 1) the PAC-12 Network being so crappy and viewership counting as zero and 2) Cal being relegated to the PAC-12 Network for being a boring, low scoring, losing team.
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In reply to okaydo • 8:13a, 10/9/24
okaydo said:


This was a strong showing, particularly when you consider they had competition from the main Fox broadcast of Texas Tech - Arizona which kicked off at 11:00 est, and the Cal - Miami game out drew them 1.92 mill to 943k.
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In reply to Bobodeluxe • 8:17a, 10/9/24
Bobodeluxe said:
bluehenbear said:
ferCALgm2 said:
bencgilmore said:
pretty good? how'd the game do?


1.9 million

TV revenue baby! Oh wait....
fsu and clemsin thank you.


Cal - Miami's ratings outdrew FSU - Clemson by about 500k. Which would be great for the calgorithm to bring up.
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8:31a, 10/9/24
Projecting forward, I can see Cal getting several more national broadcasts (aka not on the ACC network)

Cal - Pittsburgh - ESPN (confirmed)
Cal - NC state - ACC network (confirmed)
Cal - Oregon State - ESPN late night window (speculation)
Cal - Wake Forest - ACC network (confirmed)
Cal - Syracuse - ESPN (speculation)
Cal - Stanford - ESPN late night window (speculation)
Cal - SMU - ESPN (speculation - the Thanksgiving weekend games get spread out so there are more TV windows and SMU is currently ranked).
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In reply to calumnus • 8:44a, 10/9/24
calumnus said:
sycasey said:
bluehenbear said:
ferCALgm2 said:
bencgilmore said:
pretty good? how'd the game do?


1.9 million

TV revenue baby! Oh wait....

Helps make our case for staying in the Power 4 at the next realignment, though.


Absolutely. And points out that our poor numbers in the past were due to 1) the PAC-12 Network being so crappy and viewership counting as zero and 2) Cal being relegated to the PAC-12 Network for being a boring, low scoring, losing team.

When we joined the ACC, I figured Cal and Stanford could beat at least half of the existing ACC teams in football viewership, without the P12 Network dragging them down. That's basically happening so far.
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10:21a, 10/9/24
How does this compare with prior 7:30 KO home games ? The confounding factor would be our move into the ACC.
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In reply to Rushinbear • 10:58a, 10/9/24
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How does this compare with prior 7:30 KO home games ? The confounding factor would be our move into the ACC.

Highest rated one this year.
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In reply to bencgilmore • 12:43p, 10/9/24
bencgilmore said:
pretty good? how'd the game do?
Really well.

Cal was rolling when everyone went to bed.

When they woke up it was NFL time.
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In reply to sycasey • 12:48p, 10/9/24
sycasey said:
Rushinbear said:
How does this compare with prior 7:30 KO home games ? The confounding factor would be our move into the ACC.

Highest rated one this year.
prior years?
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In reply to LunchTime • 1:01p, 10/9/24
LunchTime said:
bencgilmore said:
pretty good? how'd the game do?
Really well.

Cal was rolling when everyone went to bed.

When they woke up it was NFL time.

Ironically, most people on the east coast watched us dominate and went to sleep before the 4th quarter meltdown, which happened well past 2am EST.
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1:07p, 10/9/24
Josh Pate said he absolutely loved gameday @ cal, and lamented not playing up the Auburn game more. He was a big fan of the woke vs coke thing lol

The weekend was still a big success, despite the faceplant. Honestly it'd be hard to get relegated right now i think, we've got a lot of cred across cfb fanbases
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In reply to Rushinbear • 1:08p, 10/9/24
Rushinbear said:
sycasey said:
Rushinbear said:
How does this compare with prior 7:30 KO home games ? The confounding factor would be our move into the ACC.

Highest rated one this year.
prior years?


Here is a website with all that information for last year. Feel free to report back.

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/2023-season/
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1:18p, 10/9/24
Right now, Cal has had 4 games with ratings information made publicly available. There is no information on the UC Davis game. Combined they equal 4.86 million viewers, which would work out to 1.22 million if you divide by four (and exclude UC davis) or 997k if you include UC Davis as a zero.

Oddly enough the Florida State game has the worst ratings so far this season. But Cal also had it's three most high profile opponents (Auburn, Miami and FSU), meaning the ratings will probably diminish from here on out.

According to these numbers taken from 2015 - 2019 would place Cal's current ratings would place them 35th or 38th. Not a blueblood, but not bad either.

https://medium.com/run-it-back-with-zach/which-college-football-programs-bring-in-the-most-tv-viewers-efc03c689e50#:~:text=Alabama%20and%20Georgia%20were%20among,per%20week%20from%202015%E2%80%9319.
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In reply to golden sloth • 1:26p, 10/9/24
golden sloth said:
Right now, Cal has had 4 games with ratings information made publicly available. There is no information on the UC Davis game. Combined they equal 4.86 million viewers, which would work out to 1.22 million if you divide by four (and exclude UC davis) or 997k if you include UC Davis as a zero.

Oddly enough the Florida State game has the worst ratings so far this season. But Cal also had it's three most high profile opponents (Auburn, Miami and FSU), meaning the ratings will probably diminish from here on out.

According to these numbers taken from 2015 - 2019 would place Cal's current ratings would place them 35th or 38th. Not a blueblood, but not bad either.

https://medium.com/run-it-back-with-zach/which-college-football-programs-bring-in-the-most-tv-viewers-efc03c689e50#:~:text=Alabama%20and%20Georgia%20were%20among,per%20week%20from%202015%E2%80%9319.
I'm trying to find ratings for a home game with an eastern team that started at 7:30 or so in prior years.

We'll see what happens if we beat Pitt and then NCS gets here. (altho they're no miami).
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In reply to Rushinbear • 1:45p, 10/9/24
Rushinbear said:
golden sloth said:
Right now, Cal has had 4 games with ratings information made publicly available. There is no information on the UC Davis game. Combined they equal 4.86 million viewers, which would work out to 1.22 million if you divide by four (and exclude UC davis) or 997k if you include UC Davis as a zero.

Oddly enough the Florida State game has the worst ratings so far this season. But Cal also had it's three most high profile opponents (Auburn, Miami and FSU), meaning the ratings will probably diminish from here on out.

According to these numbers taken from 2015 - 2019 would place Cal's current ratings would place them 35th or 38th. Not a blueblood, but not bad either.

https://medium.com/run-it-back-with-zach/which-college-football-programs-bring-in-the-most-tv-viewers-efc03c689e50#:~:text=Alabama%20and%20Georgia%20were%20among,per%20week%20from%202015%E2%80%9319.
I'm trying to find ratings for a home game with an eastern team that started at 7:30 or so in prior years.

We'll see what happens if we beat Pitt and then NCS gets here. (altho they're no miami).
Perfect comparison would be for Cal vs Auburn last year, also at the 7:30 window, it was over 2M if memory serves.

Though the 1.9 M with Miami would beat all other games this year by a wide margin. (Our own game against SDSU was only 900k ish in the same window). Most other games are usually around 900k to 1M at the 7:30pm ESPN window this year.

1.9 is great. If ESPN gets about 2M every saturday night they are happy
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In reply to TedfordTheGreat • 2:22p, 10/9/24
TedfordTheGreat said:
Rushinbear said:
golden sloth said:
Right now, Cal has had 4 games with ratings information made publicly available. There is no information on the UC Davis game. Combined they equal 4.86 million viewers, which would work out to 1.22 million if you divide by four (and exclude UC davis) or 997k if you include UC Davis as a zero.

Oddly enough the Florida State game has the worst ratings so far this season. But Cal also had it's three most high profile opponents (Auburn, Miami and FSU), meaning the ratings will probably diminish from here on out.

According to these numbers taken from 2015 - 2019 would place Cal's current ratings would place them 35th or 38th. Not a blueblood, but not bad either.

https://medium.com/run-it-back-with-zach/which-college-football-programs-bring-in-the-most-tv-viewers-efc03c689e50#:~:text=Alabama%20and%20Georgia%20were%20among,per%20week%20from%202015%E2%80%9319.
I'm trying to find ratings for a home game with an eastern team that started at 7:30 or so in prior years.

We'll see what happens if we beat Pitt and then NCS gets here. (altho they're no miami).
Perfect comparison would be for Cal vs Auburn last year, also at the 7:30 window, it was over 2M if memory serves.
I think that Auburn game was also being played without a Fox game as competition in the same time slot. The Miami game had one.
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In reply to bluehenbear • 3:57p, 10/9/24
bluehenbear said:
ferCALgm2 said:
bencgilmore said:
pretty good? how'd the game do?


1.9 million

TV revenue baby! Oh wait....
Shouldn't the number of viewers be adjusted fo the number of likely viewers in each time zone. For example, the Cal game started at 10:30 eastern time. But, in this regard, if someone watches the game for just one minute in the easterm time zone does that count as much as someone who watches the whole game Pacific time. Or is the measurement gross eyeballs that watched the game for at least one minute across all time zone? Other time measurements are possible.
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In reply to sycasey • 4:14p, 10/9/24
sycasey said:
TedfordTheGreat said:
Rushinbear said:
golden sloth said:
Right now, Cal has had 4 games with ratings information made publicly available. There is no information on the UC Davis game. Combined they equal 4.86 million viewers, which would work out to 1.22 million if you divide by four (and exclude UC davis) or 997k if you include UC Davis as a zero.

Oddly enough the Florida State game has the worst ratings so far this season. But Cal also had it's three most high profile opponents (Auburn, Miami and FSU), meaning the ratings will probably diminish from here on out.

According to these numbers taken from 2015 - 2019 would place Cal's current ratings would place them 35th or 38th. Not a blueblood, but not bad either.

https://medium.com/run-it-back-with-zach/which-college-football-programs-bring-in-the-most-tv-viewers-efc03c689e50#:~:text=Alabama%20and%20Georgia%20were%20among,per%20week%20from%202015%E2%80%9319.
I'm trying to find ratings for a home game with an eastern team that started at 7:30 or so in prior years.

We'll see what happens if we beat Pitt and then NCS gets here. (altho they're no miami).
Perfect comparison would be for Cal vs Auburn last year, also at the 7:30 window, it was over 2M if memory serves.
I think that Auburn game was also being played without a Fox game as competition in the same time slot. The Miami game had one.
Actually I'm wrong about that! There was a Stanford-USC game on Fox that night at the same time, and the Cal game actually beat it out in the ratings!

I looked at this season (so far) and last season and counted up the games that started on Saturday at 7pm PT / 10pm ET or later. There are 39 total (unless I missed one), not counting games that received no rating (Pac-12 Network and CBS Sports Network are not Nielsen rated). Here are your top ten (with Cal actually pretty well represented!):

1. CSU-Colorado 9/16/23 ESPN 9,300,000
2. USC-Oregon 11/11/23 FOX 3,010,000
3. Oregon St.-Colorado 11/4/23 ESPN 2,770,000
4. USC-ASU 9/23/23 FOX 2,630,000
5. Arizona-USC 10/7/23 ESPN 2,550,000
6. Auburn-Cal 9/9/23 ESPN 2,230,000
7. Miami-Cal 10/5/24 ESPN 1,920,000
8. Stanford-USC 9/9/23 FOX 1,750,000
9. Cal-UCLA 11/25/23 ESPN 1,660,000
10 (tie). Kansas St.-BYU 9/21/24 ESPN 1,500,000
10 (tie). Oregon-UCLA 9/28/24 FOX 1,500,000

That Colorado game is just a crazy outlier. The Coach Prime craze was at full blast.
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In reply to Gobears49 • 5:54a, 10/12/24
To futrther explain, a game starting at 10:30 east coast time, like the Cal - Miami game did, wipes out a lot of east coast viewers. Wonder what time is used to determine the number of viewers,
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In reply to TedfordTheGreat • 6:31a, 10/12/24
TedfordTheGreat said:
Rushinbear said:
golden sloth said:
Right now, Cal has had 4 games with ratings information made publicly available. There is no information on the UC Davis game. Combined they equal 4.86 million viewers, which would work out to 1.22 million if you divide by four (and exclude UC davis) or 997k if you include UC Davis as a zero.

Oddly enough the Florida State game has the worst ratings so far this season. But Cal also had it's three most high profile opponents (Auburn, Miami and FSU), meaning the ratings will probably diminish from here on out.

According to these numbers taken from 2015 - 2019 would place Cal's current ratings would place them 35th or 38th. Not a blueblood, but not bad either.

https://medium.com/run-it-back-with-zach/which-college-football-programs-bring-in-the-most-tv-viewers-efc03c689e50#:~:text=Alabama%20and%20Georgia%20were%20among,per%20week%20from%202015%E2%80%9319.
I'm trying to find ratings for a home game with an eastern team that started at 7:30 or so in prior years.

We'll see what happens if we beat Pitt and then NCS gets here. (altho they're no miami).
Perfect comparison would be for Cal vs Auburn last year, also at the 7:30 window, it was over 2M if memory serves.

Though the 1.9 M with Miami would beat all other games this year by a wide margin. (Our own game against SDSU was only 900k ish in the same window). Most other games are usually around 900k to 1M at the 7:30pm ESPN window this year.

1.9 is great. If ESPN gets about 2M every saturday night they are happy
As you might imagine, I'm trying to see the positive in the ACC membership. One of the keys, it seems to me, is that East Coast viewers might have a curiosity about a West Coast team in their conference. Looks like they may be interested...as long as it's a well-regarded team. Wake? Maybe not so much.
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In reply to Rushinbear • 6:33a, 10/12/24
Rushinbear said:
TedfordTheGreat said:
Rushinbear said:
golden sloth said:
Right now, Cal has had 4 games with ratings information made publicly available. There is no information on the UC Davis game. Combined they equal 4.86 million viewers, which would work out to 1.22 million if you divide by four (and exclude UC davis) or 997k if you include UC Davis as a zero.

Oddly enough the Florida State game has the worst ratings so far this season. But Cal also had it's three most high profile opponents (Auburn, Miami and FSU), meaning the ratings will probably diminish from here on out.

According to these numbers taken from 2015 - 2019 would place Cal's current ratings would place them 35th or 38th. Not a blueblood, but not bad either.

https://medium.com/run-it-back-with-zach/which-college-football-programs-bring-in-the-most-tv-viewers-efc03c689e50#:~:text=Alabama%20and%20Georgia%20were%20among,per%20week%20from%202015%E2%80%9319.
I'm trying to find ratings for a home game with an eastern team that started at 7:30 or so in prior years.

We'll see what happens if we beat Pitt and then NCS gets here. (altho they're no miami).
Perfect comparison would be for Cal vs Auburn last year, also at the 7:30 window, it was over 2M if memory serves.

Though the 1.9 M with Miami would beat all other games this year by a wide margin. (Our own game against SDSU was only 900k ish in the same window). Most other games are usually around 900k to 1M at the 7:30pm ESPN window this year.

1.9 is great. If ESPN gets about 2M every saturday night they are happy
As you might imagine, I'm trying to see the positive in the ACC membership. One of the keys, it seems to me, is that East Coast viewers might have a curiosity about a West Coast team in their conference. Looks like they may be interested...as long as it's a well-regarded team. Wake? Maybe not so much.
Sorry I said that about Wake. Now, the upset gods will visit us for thast game. But, my regard for them stands.
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