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Speaker 1: It is time to talk about stats.
Speaker 3: And who better to talk about financial stats as well
as college football stats then the one the only Blaine Anderson,
NFLPA Certified Financial Planner.
Speaker 1: Blaine, how the heck are you, buddy?
Speaker 4: I'm doing great. This is always a highlight for me
each week. It's a pleasure to join you, guys.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about some college football viewership stats
thus far this season for BYU. So I'm going to
give you the data and then i want to get
your reaction to it. Let's start off with you know,
we kind of we feel like BYU is a is
a good brand, a national brand and international brand.
Speaker 1: The viewership over.
Speaker 3: The last decade plus led the Big twelve to buy
into BYU's brand. Obviously, they were the first acquisition after
Texas and Oklahoma left and the you know, Bob bowlsby
ended up making a great decision because BYU has been
a brand that the Big twelve and Brett or Mark
have been able to monetize and do a really good
job of monetizing.
Speaker 1: So let's take a look at the data.
Speaker 3: Now that boy has been in the league for about
two years, right, two and a half years now. Starting
off the season BYU versus Stanford. This was a ten
twenty two pm kickoff Eastern Time. They were on ESPN
they attracted one point two one million viewers.
Speaker 1: Pretty solid numbers. They're not too shabby.
Speaker 3: The next game that they were featured in I believe
this was the BYU East Carolina game six hundred and
twenty three thousand on ESPN two, seven thirty five pm
Eastern kickoff. So six hundred and twenty three thousand, not bad,
you know, not too shabby. Uh, nothing to maybe write
home about though. By versus Colorado has been the most
highly viewed game, actually second ies viewed game for BYU
BYU Colorado on ESPN. It's a late night kick, but
you got prime there. Ten to fifteen pm kickoff Eastern okay,
two point four to six million on the mothership ESPN.
West Virginia BYU ten thirty pm Eastern kickoff on ESPN.
Speaker 1: One point four to one million viewers.
Speaker 3: Okay, BYU versus Arizona, eight pm Eastern time kickoff on
ESPN two eight hundred and sixty eight thousand, So just
to hair under one million viewers per the Nielsen ratings.
Then okay, as we're getting in later, will use getting
some momentum here, right, winning some football games they're ranked
you wonder, okay, if there're gonna be a correlation here.
Let's look at the Holy War on Fox Okay BYU
versus Utah eight pm kickoff Eastern Time, one point nine
to seven million. Some people were like, oh, man, I
thought it'd be more than that, right, I thought it'd
be more than not.
Speaker 1: Everyone's familiar with.
Speaker 3: The grand juror and greatness of the Holy War, but
they may not know now, but they about to find out,
hopefully in the years to come. And then the most
recent Okay on Fox Okay BYU Iowa State, This was
a pretty gosh dang good viewership.
Speaker 1: Now it was.
Speaker 3: It was one thirty pm Mountain time kick three thirty
Eastern times, so it was maybe a better time slot
by versus Iowa State.
Speaker 1: Viewership two point six million.
Speaker 3: So I give you all those numbers and want to
get your reaction and let's talk about this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is interesting. I like the breakdown.
Speaker 4: It's it's cool to get a feel for what's happening,
especially outside of Utah. It sounds like in Colorado would
have been our number one game, no Iowa State in Colorado,
and then the Holy War number three as far as viewership,
which leads me to believe that yes, this Holy war
is important to us inside the bubble, you might say,
here in the Rocky Mountain West, but we've still got
ways to go on to being more readily recognized outside
of the country. But to me, by you be considered
a buy stock, meaning I feel like there's some upside
with these numbers. I'm kind of surprised I would have
guessed Utah number one, but to know that they're number three,
and it sounds like we've got a lot of room
to continue to grow in viewership and hopefully increase the
national brand.
Speaker 2: So lots of upside with the Coodes.
Speaker 4: It sounds like from a national level, and especially with
these viewership numbers.
Speaker 3: There's no doubt that they're fulfilling a role for the
late night slots for Fox and ESPN, but you give
them a more prestigious slot in the midday in the
early afternoon, and they're pulling some really good numbers. They're
pulling some solid numbers right now now he's at Ole,
Miss Georgia. No, that was a really good number, right
That was a three thirty six pm kickoff for Eastern Time,
nine point seven nine million on ABC.
Speaker 1: But it begs the question, right, So like we were
talking about this.
Speaker 3: Pat Okay of ESPN stated on his show, we should
have been at the Holy War. Okay, we should have
been Week eight at the Holy.
Speaker 1: War in Provo.
Speaker 3: And you know, Fox Big New Kickoff showed up. He
was great for them. We know it wasn't the priority
game on the ABC or ESPN because he was on Fox.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: But Pat McAfee trying to convince the ESPN executives to
take their talents Game Day talent talents to Provo.
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting. You know, why would he
do that? Do you think.
Speaker 4: He seems to be a proponent for the Kougs based
on what I hear him say in some of the
interviews he's done with Kyle van Oi. I like hearing
what he has to say about BYU. And it's probably
going to take a couple of playoff wins for us
to start getting to that next tier. But it sounds
like we're starting to make some noise. I think it's
to hear that from Pat McAfee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you getting some love from some national pundits. That
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Statement with Blaine Anderson, NFLPA Certified Financial Planner representing Banterwelth.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Blaine, Thanks guys, enjoy the rest of
your week. We shall.
Speaker 3: We appreciate him joining us, Ronald, give me your thoughts
on the uh these data sets that I gave you
on viewership? What stands out to you? What games? What's
your your your commentary to some of these numbers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not surprised, Ben, I think by your first
comment of why the viewership numbers for the you know
fans call it the Holy War and not where it
should be yet. I mean, look, I told you this
Bratt like, I'm from Big ten Country. I didn't know
anything outside of that, Ben until I got to BYU.
Brad's down there, you know, being from Georgia and Pennsylvania.
So I'm not surprised that that didn't I do agree
with Pat McAfee they miss an opportunity to expand that.
Any time, Ben, you want an opportunity to expand a
brand or get people more notoriety, you have to do
it on the big Boy network. So ESPN did miss
an opportunity there. In my opinion, I think they missed
out on that. But I'm not surprised that the BYU
and Iowa State got that many views. Iowa State been
the fan base travels. That was Bo's toughest road tests. Look,
we're gonna play us. We're gonna play. We played a
sound clip excuse me, earlier in the show regarding you know,
Gus Johnson saying that BA you picked up probably his
most important win on the road against the Cyclones. So
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1: By that at all.
Speaker 5: BYU has always been known to give viewership in that
late time slot, and to think it had been I
looked at the games after Texas Tech and boy you
were to beat them when they come back home to TCU,
It's looking like BAU is probably going to be in
that night game slot. It's either them or Arizona State
based on demographic. They're an easy eight fifteen kickoff slot
to put them in, so people stay up late watching
in that regard, So I'm not surprised that BYU got
two point six million viewership with Iowa State, so it's
something good. But BYU is an easy pull for late
night kicks in even a primetime game, so they're gonna
continue to have views because you got Cougar fans stand up.
I'm texting people on the East Coast been like it's
one thirty and they're still watching the game. So BYU
always bringing viewership and the big twelve knows that ESPN
knows that Fox knows that. So if they can put
them in a la kickoff time slot, if they can
put them later, they're still going to do it because
they'll bring the most views.
Speaker 1: Let's take a brief time out. We'll be back though.
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