So says the overnight Nielsen ratings.
Officially the lowest-rated BCS NC game, with a 13.8% share of the national audience.
It was a no-brainer to figure out that it would be the worst-rated. The move to ESPN dropped the ratings last year, and having an all-SEC southern affair meant that few people outside of the southern US would care to watch. It also didn't help that these two teams played during the regular season, to a boring 9-6 finish.
And for what it's worth, Alabama's tops in the nation scoring defense was compiled against opponents like North Texas, Georgia Southern and Kent State. Their 8.15 ppg defensive stat may have been better than USC's 2008 team that averaged 9.0 ppg, but USC played a regular season non-conference schedule without patsies: Virginia, Ohio State, and Notre Dame.
FWIW 2.0: USC-Texas in 2005 is the highest rated BCS game, ever.
Bottom line: I didn't watch it. Glad I didn't, too.
I was blogging, reading the news and doing ideation for all-cardboard furniture. I even made a stop at the bookstore, ending up with two books (one on Gehry, another on retail store design.)
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