Notre Dame vs. Michigan Draws 4.0 TV Rating, Highest of College Football Weekend
Notre Dame vs. Michigan last Saturday was an eyesore – except to those who hate both teams and rooted for chaos – but there were, nonetheless, many eyes sore. The game drew a 4.0 Nielsen rating on NBC, the highest of the day. It outdrew the top ten meeting between Florida State and Clemson on ESPN (3.2) and Oklahoma vs. Kansas State on FOX (1.7) head to head. If you question why Notre Dame is still relevant, there is your answer.
Despite beating out everything, that was a down year for ND/Mich, the worst since 2007. ND/Mich drew a 4.8 rating on ESPN last year. Notre Dame was cavalier about maintaining its Big Ten rivalries with the ACC agreement. One wonders how NBC will feel about that after a couple Duke showdowns.
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September 24th, 2012 at 10:51 AM
Needle.
September 24th, 2012 at 10:53 AM
Needle.
i think it moved
September 24th, 2012 at 10:55 AM
But ND hasn’t been in the title mix in 25 years!
September 24th, 2012 at 10:55 AM
The people love Denard! Great game Duhnard!
September 24th, 2012 at 10:58 AM
This game was pure dogshit. Especially going up against the 1st 3 quarters of FSU/Clemson.
But ND hasn’t been in the title mix in 25 years!
This is accurate. Catholics love clinging to the past.
September 24th, 2012 at 10:58 AM
Bad football is better than no football, I guess.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Something, I’ve never gotten a clear answer for. I mainly watched the FSU/Clemson game, and during breaks switched to ND/Mich and Rutgers/Ark. Do I count in the ratings for all three games (if I were surveyed or had a box)?
September 24th, 2012 at 11:00 AM
I don’t get it. When has anyone not said that ND isn’t a popular school? I personally don’t think they are a national powerhouse anymore, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t get people in front of the TV watching them. There are two types of college fans. Ones that Hate ND and those that love ND. Both types watch ND when they play big schools like Michigan.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:02 AM
One of the few posts I look forward to on Deadspin are these where they show that more people watch that awful voice show than a MNF game.
CONTEXT.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:02 AM
If ratings drive posts, we should be getting a lot more NASCAR coverage around here.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:03 AM
If ratings drive posts, we should be getting a lot more NASCAR coverage around here.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:03 AM
Most Exciting Player in 30 years. Total fraud.
And I’m waiting to see all this “talent” that Hoke has recruited. Looks like a bunch of garbage to me. Or maybe thats just the coaching.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:03 AM
Notre Dame football = 2 and a half men/Big Bang Theory
/stuff old people watch
September 24th, 2012 at 11:03 AM
You see a lot of it on this very patch of internet, they’re always relevant despite rarely being good…once they’re required to score more than 20 points in a game and drop a few we can stop fearing that they’ll crash the BCS again
September 24th, 2012 at 11:04 AM
There are two other types of people…Good people and people who root for Michigan
September 24th, 2012 at 11:04 AM
The Cowboys have won, what, two playoff games in the last fifteen years?
September 24th, 2012 at 11:05 AM
Just wait till Meeeeeeeeechigan wins a national title in a couple years.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:05 AM
September 24th, 2012 at 11:05 AM
The Cowboys have won, what, two playoff games in the last fifteen years?
You’re being generous. I think it’s only 1.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:06 AM
Spoiler alert: They turned left and Danica crashed within the first five seconds. Oh, and Junior still loves his big nuts Wranglers.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Ratings are up a bit this year after several years of decline, because Junior is relevant(ish)
September 24th, 2012 at 11:09 AM
Notre Dame’s relevance stems from being highly overrated year after year.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:09 AM
True.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:09 AM
The average ND fans that I know never attended college, probably have one or more tattoos proclaiming their Irish heritage, and probably couldn’t find Indiana when presented with a map of the United States.
So, that type probably won’t care who Notre Dame is playing.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Jason I realize you’re clowning people here but those who are agreeing with you …. weren’t they one fourth and 28 stop against USC from being in the title game in 2005?
September 24th, 2012 at 11:13 AM
ND football is just like the Lakers, Cowboys and the Yanks. Passionately loved or vehemently hated.
All four of them move the needle with immeasurable power.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Via
MICH/ND topped both Clemson/FSU and K-State/Oklahoma last night, but still tied the lowest overnight for the MICH/ND rivalry since 2007.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:14 AM
I dont think anybody says this, I think this post is targeted to those who do complain about Notre Dame coverage, claiming they are irrelevant. They get coverage because of how much fans care about them, love or hate.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Throw in Duke basketball. Remember when Coach K had the back issue and left Duke and they were bad? Lots of eyeballs tuned in to see them get beat on the regular during that stretch. Nothing better than seeing hated teams lose.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:15 AM
I’ll admit it, ND losing at home to Tulsa did move my needle.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:16 AM
I keep telling people to wait on that (sarcasm aside). They’re gonna be awful next year – they basically have to reinvent the offense to allow for a pro-style passer. There’s no talent in the junior/senior classes and we don’t know how Hoke is as a talent developer (Mattison and Borges have a track record, though). It’ll be 2014 minimum before UM can claim to be back. THey’re jsut fortuntate that PSU is going into a decade lon hibernation, and MSU, Wisky and Neb are all shitting the bed trying to get into National Title consideration. This leaves a vacancy behind OSU that Michigan can fill (again).
/Moral of the story, Big 10 sucks
//Would pay to see 6-6 Illinois win the East and upset UM/MSU in the titile game
September 24th, 2012 at 11:16 AM
I don’t hate or love them. But the Lakers and Yankess have at least won something since the early and mid 90s.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:17 AM
I watch SEC football, what is this Notre Dame that you speak of? I’m 36 and the last time ND was a title contender, I was in Jr. High. Tim Brown/Rocket Ismail timeframe I believe.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:17 AM
This is all true, regardless of whether they are good or not. In the case of ND, they haven’t been good for quite some time.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Three. 2015 National Champions.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Its far, far more likely you’re firing that in over his head coach in 2015.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:22 AM
How would they have jumped Auburn?
September 24th, 2012 at 11:22 AM
Notre Dame sucks. Michigan sucks but might win the B1G. The B1G sucks.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:23 AM
If you’re going to be a condescending conference elitist dickhead at least be accurate. Let’s not pretend that ND wasn’t a contender in the Game of the Century season.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Jason I realize you’re clowning people here but those who are agreeing with you …. weren’t they one fourth and 28 stop against USC from being in the title game in 2005?
No. They ended up 9-3 that year, had already lost to MSU by the time USC played them, and ended up getting beat by OSU in the Fiesta bowl. Never ranked higher than #6.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Wrong year, nvm.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:24 AM
This is true.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:24 AM
You’re thinking of 2004, ’05 was when USC lost to Texas so he’s suggesting that ND would have been the highest ranked 1-loss team and with a win over SC I think I agree
September 24th, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Or maybe I was thinking 2006?
September 24th, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Why doesn’t Michigan’s large fan base factor into this? Michigan vs Bama did a higher rating, and Purdue/Notre Dame got a record low 2.3 for an Irish opener.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:25 AM
This is true.
Didn’t Penn State have a better case than ND that year, even if ND had beaten USC?
September 24th, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Wrong season. Talking the 2005/6 season. If they beat USC, Texas is the only undefeated team and ND is probably in the title game because their loss came so early. Think they finished sixth of so with two losses going into the bowls. No way in hell does ND get kept out of the title game in that situation against a bunch of other one loss teams.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Tragic. What a horrific, irrelevant season.
/Idiots
September 24th, 2012 at 11:26 AM
By replacing their upstanding white players with athletic black criminals.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Yahoo finance.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:26 AM
ND would have been the highest ranked 1-loss team and with a win over SC I think I agree
Penn State’s only blemish that year was a 2 point loss at Michigan.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Solid SOLID work using the USC loss and bowl loss to explain that they wouldn’t have been in had they only had one loss.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:27 AM
By using the dead bodies of their video assistants as springboards.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Solid SOLID work using the USC loss and bowl loss to explain that they wouldn’t have been in had they only had one loss.
Penn State finished the year ranked #3. How does ND jump them even if they beat USC?
September 24th, 2012 at 11:29 AM
PSU was 3rd with one loss, ND was 5 and 6 with two losses, with the USC game being so early and it being USC, they’d probably have been ahead.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:29 AM
I’m also pretty sure 2005 was the year ND didn’t beat a team that ended up ranked in the top 25.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:31 AM
BUT GOLDEN DOME! TOUCHDOWN JESUS! PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY!
The number of ND fans/alums I can tolerate starts and stops with Sen. Jersey
September 24th, 2012 at 11:31 AM
Easily.
ND and USC played in week seven that year, early matchup. AFTER the Irish lost to USC they were still several spots ahead of PSU in the polls. PSU would have had no chance of catching them.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:31 AM
So, this game getting a whopping 1.8 in 18-49 gets a post? Alabama-Mich got a 3.0. Maybe it’s Michigan that moves the needle. Maybe the shitty 1.8 with 2 national programs vs. the 1.7 with 2 regional schools (FSU-Clemson) doesn’t fit the atrocious and overplayed narrative. How about a post on the HORRIFIC drop in ratings in the ND-MSU game vs. last year (Oklahoma-FSU)? Sorry, forgot. Narrative trumps fact.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:32 AM
It’s not an issue of Notre Dame jumping anyone. They would have been cemented up there already.
Not saying they would have been worthy. Texas would have slaughtered them just like OSU did.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:32 AM
Indirectly responsible for more child rapes: Notre Dame or Penn State? Discuss…
September 24th, 2012 at 11:32 AM
BYU, NAVY, SYRACUSE, TENNESSEE, WASHINGTON, plus their rivalry games. Of which USC was by far the toughest opponent. Tough slate there.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Then wouldn’t you delete the entire comment, rather than adding on the note that it doesn’t matter?
September 24th, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Indirectly responsible for more child rapes: Notre Dame or Penn State? Discuss…
Not bad.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Ok, Ok. Notre Dame is relevant once every 6-7 years. Happy?
/Usually relevant in September
//Gone by Halloween
September 24th, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Easily.
ND and USC played in week seven that year, early matchup. AFTER the Irish lost to USC they were still several spots ahead of PSU in the polls. PSU would have had no chance of catching them.
Just for the record, ND lost to USC the same day PSU suffered its only loss.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Honest question… does ND give money to the Catholic Church? How does that work? Is there a legitimate chance that football revenue has ended up paying off child rape victims?
September 24th, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Yep, believe they were right next to each other going into that weekend.
I just have a hard time believing that a one loss ND team gets left out, given that they’re ND. Even though yeah they did pretty much suck.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:39 AM
I just have a hard time believing that a one loss ND team gets left out, given that they’re ND. Even though yeah they did pretty much suck.
Maybe. Although at the time the country was in love with JoePa’s “resurgence” so I’m sure that would have gotten PSU some love.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:49 AM
According to the NCAA, PSU went 0-11 that year.
September 24th, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Is that true? Or did they go 0-3? or 0-0? How does that work. The other teams don’t get the wins, do they? They are just ‘vacated’.
September 24th, 2012 at 12:52 PM
By your logic, I guess that NCIS should have won the emmy for best drama. I mean, big ratings makes you relevant, right?