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Originally Posted by timmynausea
On the November 2, 2006, Thursday night telecast of #3 West Virginia Mountaineers' 44–34 loss to #5 Louisville Cardinals delivered an average of 4,916,000 households (based on a 5.3 rating), the biggest household audience ever for a Thursday night game on the network and the second-biggest college football audience ever for an ESPN game (any day or time slot).
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That was five years ago. ESPN had two games draw more viewers than that last week.
If we want to use pointless data, the 2007 MU-KU game was the highest rated regular season game of the year and set the record for highest-rated ESPN Gameday. Last year's Gameday visit to Missouri set the show record for largest crowd.
What does that mean? Nothing, which is exactly what 2006 WVU game's rating means.
I'll admit to being a homer, but I don't see the appeal of WVU over MU to the SEC. If anything, the attitude in Missouri is that the SEC wants us more than we wan them. Not sure it's true, but that's the perception.