Here’s a tidbit for y’all: According to the numbers I’ve seen, the Rose Bowl’s Post-Game Show also drew a 5.4 rating with a 9 share. That’s right: The POST-GAME of the Rose Bowl (which was ONLY ON FOR 21 MINUTES) was seen by the same percentage of all households with televisions that tuned to the show as the Orange Bowl itself.

Orson, the number you originally quoted was the rating, not the share.

6.1 was the overnight, 5.6 was actually the final. So the following regular season games this year received higher ratings than the Orange Bowl:

SEC Championship Game: 9.1, Texas/Texas Tech: 7.5, Ohio State/USC: 7.0, Texas Tech/Oklahoma: 6.6, Penn State/Ohio State: 6.4, Oklahoma/Oklahoma State: 5.6

Texas/Oklahoma almost certainly would have received a higher rating had it been given the 3:30 EST slot.

And as we reach the end of another season, the time of darkness nears…..I’m good until the end of college basketball, but there’s not much after that to hold my interest until September.

I suppose my wife would tell you that that’s a good thing and enables me to get some shit done around the house for part of the year, but it’s not something I look forward to…DON’T TAKE MAH FOOTBAW!!!!!!!

(begins shaking and nervously rocking in seat)

He has to realize he is the luckiest man on the planet. Highest paid sitcom actor, doing the same bad show every week, living out his alleged past or current life for pay.

And who amongst us isn’t beginning to feel the anxiety and distraction of withdrawls?

I was one of the ten who watched the OB game..because I knew the CFB season was almost over and a game is a game. It is the same reason I find myself watching the first Thursday night game of the season. I don’t care about the outcome and neither team is exciting…but it is CFB.

Ok, not really, but a couple of comments:

1. The mighty Sugar Bowl, with ESS EEE CEE SPEED garnered a whopping 6.3.

2. This matchup – or something like it – would probably have occurred under most playoff scenarios since both teams were conference champs.

3. Although UC was beaten badly, there was no reason to expect that going into it. Yet the expected (and received) Penn State blowout got better ratings. So are you looking for good ratings or good football?

4. With any luck UC is in the process of becoming the next West Virginia or Louisville. Neither analogy is perfect, but the general idea is sound. As of now, however, they’re unknown nationally and the ratings stunk because of it.

I’m getting sick of getting kicked in the dick everytime I read edsbs. I am a Hokie faithful living in ATL. All I get all day is BEEEEES and ARP ARP ARP! My team was decimated by multiple factors at the start of 08 (draft, gangsterdom, underaged white girls) but we have completed something that very few teams have ever done (TX and USC actually): won 10 straight wins every season for the last 5. And we did it with a very young team this year (sophmore QB, 3 freshman WR’s, sophmore RB…)

But I digress. I realize that VaTech and the Bearcats is about as sexy as a schoolbus fire, but maybe a little lieniency here? No? Ok fuck it! I guess that’s what you get for playing in the “Wacky ACC”!

I’m waiting on the Yakkity Sax Edition of the Bama/Utah game. Plenty of material to work with.

Serve up shit sandwiches and the chow line won’t be very long.