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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2022 regular season average viewership for the 16 Big Ten Conference football teams:

1) Ohio State--5.80 million
2) U Michigan--4.37
3) Penn State--3.05
4) USC--2.07
5) Nebraska--1.98
6) Michigan State--1.91
7) U Maryland--1.864
8) UCLA--1.591
9) Wisconsin--1.587 
10) Iowa--1.5
11) Indiana--1.19
12) Illinois--1.17
13) Northwestern--1.13
14) Minnesota--1.05
15) Purdue--870,000
16) Rutgers--618,000

Top expansion prospects for Big Ten Conference:

Notre Dame--3.3 million
U Oregon--2.21
FSU--2.03
U Utah--1.16
U Washington--1.15
UCal-Berkely--857,000
UNC--849,000
Stanford--846,000
Georgia Tech--837,000
U Pittsburgh--650,000
U Miami--608,000

Schools like U Virginia--237,000; Duke--115,700; Boston College--322,000 just don't have enough viewership to be attractive to the Big Ten Conference.

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Rating reflect which games Fox, CBS and ABC decide to air nationally. ND will always have great rating because they always play on NBC. Teams in the playoff hunt will have great rating because they will get national games. If TCU drops a game or two early, their rating will plummet because they won't be on TV outside of Texas anymore [/quote]

Agree--especially with respect to the comment about TCU. Nonetheless, the networks select games which viewers want to see. Ratings reflect which games viewers actually watch. Viewers have multiple choices of football games from multiple broadcast & streaming services. No one is clamoring to see more BC or Duke football on national TV.[/quote]

I know people love a good train wreck, but you can't convince me that anyone actually wanted to see Iowa play last year [/quote]

Big Ten member Iowa averaged 1,500,000 viewers per regular season game in 2022. Showing Univ. of Iowa on TV is about as dumb as thinking that an NFL franchise could survive in tiny out-of-the-way Green Bay, Wisconsin.[/quote]

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