Move up to FBS - spend Christmas in Detroit

[mendontwearponytails]

With a record of 6-6 that would not have even got them a sniff of the FCS playoffs. Yet they, too, get a date to play on ESPN.

With crappy ratings - guarantee more watched the Montana-App game.

Actually, according to Nielsen, the Little Caesar's Bowl got double the viewers of the FCS championship game ( 2.6 vs 1.3)

[AshevilleApp]

With crappy ratings - guarantee more watched the Montana-App game.

Actually, according to Nielsen, the Little Caesar's Bowl got double the viewers of the FCS championship game ( 2.6 vs 1.3)

What was the ratings comparison between the Little Caesar's Bowl and the App-Montana though?

And welcome to CS.com first time poster!!

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

Actually, according to Nielsen, the Little Caesar's Bowl got double the viewers of the FCS championship game ( 2.6 vs 1.3)

What was the ratings comparison between the Little Caesar's Bowl and the App-Montana though?

And welcome to CS.com first time poster!!

App/MT got the same rating as the LCBowl.

[native]

If they tapered down the # of bowls, instead of consistently adding new ones, but made sure all conferences were repped by at least 1 team...they'd still have the 5 big bowls and would get each conference more of the allotment, wouldn't they? I mean, they'd have all this money generated by those 5 bowls and not nearly all the losses, so all the conferences would get more $$$.
If, as I read it, it's about the money...why not? Oh, I know less teams would get the ESPN exposure but I'd rather my team wasn't embarrassed like some of those teams are. You go in with a 6-6 record and play a team that's 8-4 or 9-3 or something and you lose. So, you got on TV and made asses of yourselves...excellent.

Like it or not, the bowls are for the benefit of the host communities, that is why there are so many of them. The places that host win no matter who plays there, they don't care if your 6-6 team gets embarassed, as long as they stay at a local hotel. Fewer bowls mean fewer opportunities to host, so your suggestion won't work.

I love my FCS, but no whiny sour grapes from me. FCS is good. FBS is good. Football is good.

[OSBF]

What was the ratings comparison between the Little Caesar's Bowl and the App-Montana though?

And welcome to CS.com first time poster!!

App/MT got the same rating as the LCBowl.

Well, sure. After all, that was the national championship game, wasn't it supposed to be?

[putter]

so what happens now that the NC game will be played just before the BCS game? Will it get more exposure? At least ESPN sticks a nut out to promote these bowl games. I am convinced they could get 10% more viewers if they would just promote the NC game starting the monday before the game was played as there is no competition and people who love sports will watch if they know it is on.

[Monarch Nation]

so what happens now that the NC game will be played just before the BCS game? Will it get more exposure? At least ESPN sticks a nut out to promote these bowl games. I am convinced they could get 10% more viewers if they would just promote the NC game starting the monday before the game was played as there is no competition and people who love sports will watch if they know it is on.

They'll probably treat it like a JV game before the Big Event. Personally I'd rather they leave it where it was.