yisman Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 So today, they had bowls scheduled for 1 PM, 2 PM, 3:30 PM, 4:30 PM, and 8 PM do they not care about ratings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripp Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 What cities were the games played in? Not too much else you can do to separate the games. Could have one start at noon and another late at 10 pm but only if there is a game played on the west coast They usually do a really good job of staggering start times. Monday for example has games at 2, 5:30 and 9 pm eastern, Tuesday has games at 3, 6:30 and 10 In fact only other time they have overlapping games is Jan 1 where they have three bowl games starting between 12-1, then showcase the two playoff matchups at 5 and 8:30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yisman Posted December 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 when you have this many games, having one at noon or 11 PM is a no brainer Nebraska/USC is on the West Coast, the Sun Bowl is in Texas so you start one at 12, one at 2, one at 4, the Sun Bowl could be at 7, and the Nebraska/USC game could be 10 or 10:30. Obviously there's still overlap, but a lot less. you'd get better ratings that way than the way they did it. They had 3 bowl games being played at the same time for no apparent reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yisman Posted December 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 They usually do a really good job of staggering start times. Monday for example has games at 2, 5:30 and 9 pm eastern, Tuesday has games at 3, 6:30 and 10 I know. It's common sense. That's what makes this confusing. A 2 PM, a 3:30, and a 4:30 on the same day make sense? I guess their goal isn't viewers. Or maybe they let Jameis Winston handle today's scheduling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hels Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 I'll ship the pizza points when I am allowed back at sbr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripp Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 yeah seems like the time zones work out where they could have done that, would make sense like you said Only thing I could think of is maybe certain bowl games have rights to certain times to guarantee themselves best possible ratings. Your described times would probably be best for overall ratings but Holiday Bowl may have a guaranteed 8 pm primetime slot. Moving them to a 10 or 10:30 time slot would obviously hurt their ratings quite a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
po69 Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 Well I know that I watched all 3 games at once. Most sports fans have at least 2 TV's in their man cave anyway/ Not a problem for the gamblers to see all of the games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Hustle Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 it's kind of a good Idea to have a game at 12 and 1. when the 12pm game goes to halftime you just switch it to the 1pm game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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