I don't feel so lonely now as I did not watch the game. I honestly forgot about it and checked the score at 17-7 and decided I did not need to see anything else.
Record-low for UGA's 58-point title-game wipeout of TCU - Sports Media Watch
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As one would reasonably expect, Georgia’s 65-7 obliteration of TCU was the least-watched college football national championship on record.
Monday’s Georgia-TCU College Football Playoff National Championship averaged 17.2 million viewers across the ESPN family of networks, making it the least-watched college football title game in the history of the College Football Playoff and its predecessor the Bowl Championship Series. Ratings were not immediately available.
The Bulldogs’ 58-point beatdown — the largest margin of victory in any bowl game — declined 24% from Georgia-Alabama last year (22.56M). Per Sports TV Ratings, viewership for the game peaked at 22.37 million from 8:30-8:45 PM ET, dropped below 20 million at 9:15 and dwindled to just 10.3 million in the final quarter-hour (10:45-11 PM).
For the second time in three years, the CFP National Championship was not the most-watched game of the season. It trailed both the Georgia-Ohio State (22.45M) and TCU-Michigan (21.70M) semifinals and barely outdrew Michigan-Ohio State in the regular season (17.14M).
The gains for the semifinals canceled out Monday’s sharp decline, helping the full, three-game CFP to a 9% increase over last year (from 18.9M to 20.6M).
(Nielsen estimates from ESPN PR, Sports TV Ratings/Twitter 1.10)
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