[Karp] Georgia-Alabama CFP title game averaged 22.6 million viewers across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU. Up big from record-low of 18.7 million for Bama-Ohio State in 2021. Second-lowest since CFP started in 2015. Excluding 2021, UGA-Bama is least-watched title game since 2005 (USC-Oklahoma)

ESPN needs to rethink how they sell the NCAA playoffs

The Super Bowl is on a Sunday because 95% of NFL games are played on Sundays.

People throw Super Bowl parties. Everyone goes to church or sleeps in or whatever your Sunday routine is…then you skip lunch, start snacking and drinking in the early afternoon and the Game, commercials, and halftime show are the main attraction

So why the hell is the college football championship on a Monday Night? What about Monday makes anyone think “we should totally have our super important event that we want everyone to watch on the shittiest day of the week.”

What marketing genius made that decision.

Here’s what I’d change.

Move the 2 semifinal games to the 30th.

That leaves 4 of the NY6 bowls for the 30th and 31st

1 game gets the NYE prime time slot and the other 3 are on New Years Day

Then, instead of having the championship game on a Monday, you keep the Saturday tradition of college football alive and play it at 6:30pm central.

Now…people can enjoy the game. They can throw parties. They can get drunk. They can stay up late knowing they can sleep in the following day if they want.

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