Which college football programs bring in the most TV viewers?

Sign up Sign in Sign up Sign in Home Following Library Stories Stats Home Newsletter About Zach Miller examines conference realignment and other college sports topics through numbers. Zach Miller Follow Run It Back With Zach — 4 Listen Share A couple weeks back, I took a look at which college football programs are the most valuable in this round of conference realignment. I got a lot of positive feedback from that, and I truly believe it’s the best ranking you’ll find when it comes to evaluating each college football programs’ value to TV networks right now. But one complaint I got from a few fans was that those ranking didn’t include TV viewership numbers. We are talking about value to TV networks, after all. I don’t find TV viewership numbers to be a good way to measure value for a few reasons: Remember, too, that TV networks pay for these game before they air, not after. Networks sign these deals years ahead of time for the value they expect to get. They don’t know which teams are going to be ranked in the Top 10 five years from now. They’re not looking for programs that are on a roll right now (Iowa State), they’re looking for programs that have high upside (Southern Cal) and/or low downside (Texas). But you asked about TV numbers, and I had some time off from my real job, so I looked into it. I wanted a big sample size, so I logged 1,516 regular-season games with available viewership data from the five-year span of 2015-19 (I left out 2020 for obvious reasons). That includes every televised game involving Notre Dame, BYU, Army or a team from the Big Ten, SEC, ACC, Big 12, Pac-12, AAC or Mountain West. If you’re enjoying this content, please follow me on Medium. The rankings include every Power 5 team, every AAC team, every Mountain West team, plus Notre Dame, BYU and Army. The numbers next to each school indicate the average number of viewers per week from 2015–19. Streaming numbers are included when available. Conference championship games and bowl games are not included in these numbers. Games that do not have available data were counted as zero. Looking for data from later years? Here is 2022, and here is 2021. — — 4 Zach Miller examines conference realignment and other college sports topics through numbers. Sports Journalist Help Status About Careers Press Blog Privacy Rules Terms Text to speech

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