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Saturday afternoon's college football programming offered a rare chance to directly compare the local ratings for two state football programs, as close to apples-to-apples as possible: both Florida and USF played at 3:30 p.m. on network TV, with the Gators playing Georgia on Ch. 10 and USF facing Connecticut on Ch. 28.
Sorry, Bulls fans, but the Florida-Georgia game had nearly double the local viewers as USF-UConn, with the Gators drawing a 13.2 overnight rating, as opposed to a 7.0 rating for the Bulls. The Florida-Georgia game had a 31.9 share -- meaning 31.9 percent of the TVs turned on were tuned in -- while USF-UConn had a 17.2 share. The USF audience represents a local viewership of about 123,000 households in the Tampa market.
For what it's worth, both local teams drew significantly higher ratings than No. 1 Ohio State, which played Penn State in an 8 p.m. kickoff on Ch. 28 and drew a 4.6 rating, with a 9.9 share.
Sorry, Bulls fans, but the Florida-Georgia game had nearly double the local viewers as USF-UConn, with the Gators drawing a 13.2 overnight rating, as opposed to a 7.0 rating for the Bulls. The Florida-Georgia game had a 31.9 share -- meaning 31.9 percent of the TVs turned on were tuned in -- while USF-UConn had a 17.2 share. The USF audience represents a local viewership of about 123,000 households in the Tampa market.
For what it's worth, both local teams drew significantly higher ratings than No. 1 Ohio State, which played Penn State in an 8 p.m. kickoff on Ch. 28 and drew a 4.6 rating, with a 9.9 share.
