Yes - 5 Million more people watched the Sugar Bowl than the Rose Bowl. 18 million vs. 23 million It is funny b/c all I heard reported was shares, they both received a 14.8% share. All the talking heads saying no one cared about this game and that the rose was THE game can suck it. Seriously, this is all I need to know to realize that all their smack talking meant nothing, and that the American people realized which bowl had the most at stake.
It may have had a little to do with the Sugah having the enitre country to itself, but I'll take it as good news just for the heck of it.
Re: Re: 5 MILLION More People Watched Sugar cajdav1, I'm not sure what you mean by this, since there was not another game on during the Rose Bowl. While there were other college games on January 1, there was not one in the late afternoon during the Rose telecast. Moreover, there were two NFL playoff games on the day of the Sugar Bowl to potentially distract viewers.
cajdav1, The rose bowl was the only game on in its time slot on Jan. 1. Granted the Georgia game went a little over, but there was no other sporting event or bowl game on at the same time as the rose bowl, so I am a little confused by your response. NOT CALLING YOU OUT, just confused a little......
My bad, I was thinking of years past instead of this year, use to be all of the games would overlap but not with so many being played on different days. Sorry.
The game was on Sunday night (8:30 to past midnight on the east coast) the last day of the holiday vacation and the night before people had to get back to work after (atleast) 4 days off. IMO the game should have been on Saturday, but the NFL wild cards prevented that. You can be sure that MANY people only watched the 1st half, but I'm not sure if or how that would affect ratings. Anyway, the late Sunday time had as big an effect on ratings as anything. LSU and OU fans would watch on Tuesday at midnight but everyone else has their own life to consider.
This is not true. I dont remember the exact numbers, but the quote from USA Today said the sugar bowl finished right behind the cowboys/carolina game. It barely edged out the sugar bowl. Whatever the reasons, 5 million more people made it a point to watch THE national championship game.
Where did you get that information? Do you have a link? This is all I could find... Tuesday, January 6, 2004 The Top 20 American Nielsen Ratings ABC tops ratings with football By DAVID BAUDER -- Associated Press NEW YORK -- For college football's national championship, it was a split decision among television viewers, too. Both Sunday's Sugar Bowl game and the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day drew an identical 23.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. Winners of the two games -- LSU and Southern California -- shared the national title. Technically, the Sugar Bowl did slightly better: 23.94 million to 23.87 million. But that game had the advantage of being aired in prime time, which the Rose Bowl wasn't. Both games were on ABC. The statistical oddity highlighted a football-dominated week that gave ABC its first prime-time weekly ratings win since the Academy Awards last March. Also last week, CBS had 10.5 million viewers for Friday's "Michael Jackson Number Ones" special. The network had postponed the show in November when the pop star began facing child molestation accusations, and only rescheduled it when Jackson addressed the charges in a "60 Minutes" interview. That's not a bad rating for a special hurriedly scheduled for a Friday night, when viewership is generally down. Only the Fiesta Bowl game beat Jackson in the time slot. For the week, ABC averaged 13.9 million viewers (8.6 rating, 14 share), CBS had 10.7 million (7.0, 12), NBC 9 million (5.8, 10), Fox 6.3 million (3.9, 6), the WB 3 million (2.1, 3), UPN 2.8 million (1.9, 3) and Pax TV 900,000 (0.6, 1). NBC's "Nightly News" won the evening news ratings race, averaging 11.7 million viewers (7.7 rating, 14 share). ABC's "World News Tonight" had 9.9 million (6.9, 13) and the "CBS Evening News" 9.4 million (6.4, 12). A ratings point represents 1,084,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 108.4 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show. For the week of Dec. 29-Jan. 4, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: "AFC/NFC Showcase," ABC, 25.1 million; NFL Playoff: Dallas at Carolina, ABC, 24.7 million; Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma vs. LSU, ABC, 23.9 million; "AFC Postgame Show," CBS, 19.1 million; "Rose Bowl Postgame Show," ABC, 17.9 million; "Sugar Bowl Pregame Show," ABC, 17.4 million; "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 16.2 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 15.8 million; "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS, 15.1 million; "CSI: Miami," CBS, 15.1 million.
THANK YOU THANK YOU I had been wondering about this since the USC people were saying no one had watched the Sugar. I knew that wasn't true but I couldn't find anything to refute them. As usual, they are using stats to lie (and their stats weren't even right!!) THANKS!
