In reply to: Or maybe it was safe all along posted by garbageplate
Nothing has changed in the Big-10 since they made their decision except for the successful launch of the ACC + Notre Dame last weekend.
...there are three areas of the country that care more about college football than anything else: the south, Texas, and the Midwest.
The South and Texas are playing, the Midwest is not (except for ND). The majority of the states / constituents within the Midwest states want college football to be played (right, wrong, or otherwise).
I absolutely believe that ND playing (it was the highest rated game in a week of bad options) sticks in the craw of UM, OSU, Iowa, Nebraska, etc. Half of those schools were wanting to play anyway, consequences be damned.
Not to mention a showcase.
Nobody watched.
Tune in tomorrow to our game on the O Network. Or is it the Spice Channel? I know you will. Because nothing else is going on in your life.
Most viewers of any college football game of the (diluted) weekend. No doubt more a result of pent up demand for college football than quality of play or the matchup itself. But:
"It was the most-viewed Notre Dame afternoon home opener since the Irish last welcomed Penn State to South Bend way back in 2006. It’s also the most-viewed Notre Dame home contest since the Fighting Irish battled Michigan in primetime to kickoff the 2018 season."
Texas and Michigan (and those were both prime time). So the afternoon opener list of teams is:
Temple twice,
Rice,
Nevada twice,
Purdue twice,
San Diego State,
New MExico,
South Florida.
By any measure, that's a very good number. It was the most-viewed game of the weekend. Yes, there were far fewer options than normal, and yes, the pent up demand was a massive contributor too, but that would apply to all games. To say "nobody watched" is undeniably inaccurate.
For context, ND-USC last year on NBC had 3.1m viewers, in prime time. Most ND NBC games are between 1.5m-2.5m viewers.
average 6 million. With nothing else going on, there were fewer viewers of the only real game on at the time than there were for a normal game when eyeballs are divided 3 or 4 ways.
Using the 'tallest midget' of comparison with the SD State line up is Pinkel worthy
If it's that "nobody watched" the Notre Dame-Duke game, you are objectively wrong. The audience was obviously unusually large, for any ND game on NBC.
If your point is something else, you might be right, I have no idea.
gladly picked it up.
Virus is a discriminating one, being a serious health threat to older folks like myself and to those with notable existing health conditions and really a minor threat to younger age groups.
The rate of hospitalizations on college campuses (0.0%), in particular, is relevant to the decision whether to play.
Given your affinity for sharing stories of partying and frivolity from your college days, it’s a good thing that you went to ND when you did. I can only imagine you on campus today: wearing a mask at all hours of the day, living in fear, probably snitching on other students.
The hospitalization rate of teens and young adults was well understood by early summer.
The science is not static.