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ABC claims we had the highest TV ratings for a football game all season, with Vatech and Notre Dame... Dammit mane... Plus Adidas wants to "renegociate" their contract...
 
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We're going to get you before you retire, Saban.

There's a CAT 5 headed your way.

ABC claims we had the highest TV ratings for a football game all season, with Vatech and Notre Dame... Dammit mane... Plus Adidas wants to "renegotiate" their contract...
 
ABC claims we had the highest TV ratings for a football game all season, with Vatech and Notre Dame... Dammit mane... Plus Adidas wants to "renegociate" their contract...

I could see the adidas part coming, even before the basketball thing. They need to make us the #1 program in their stable with a sliding guarantee that nobody will surpass our contract.
 
Link? That’s great news.

It's wrong. 6th highest rated game of the year, but we did have the highest rated GameDay of the year.

ABC and ESPN led the way in prime time in week 11 across all networks, as Saturday Night Football featuring Notre Dame at Miami set the pace and Alabama at Mississippi State provided a new cable rating season high. The two games were among the three highest-rated games of the week across all networks and beat Fox head-to-head in prime time. Across the entire 2017 season, both games rank among the top 10 highest-rated games.

Notre Dame at Miami Among Season’s Highest-Rated Games; Saturday Night Football Window Up 13% Year-Over-Year
ABC’s Saturday Night Football featuring Notre Dame at Miami (8 p.m.) delivered a 4.5 overnight, the highest-rated prime time game of week 11 across all networks and potentially the most-watched game of the week when viewership numbers are reported later this week. The overnight for the Hurricanes’ convincing victory is the sixth highest overnight of the season across all networks and up 13% year-over-year from SNF’s week 11 telecast last season (Michigan at Iowa). The Fighting Irish-Hurricanes matchup beat Fox’ prime time telecast head-to-head by 114%, also a matchup top 10 ranked teams (TCU at Oklahoma).

Miami, Fla., Draws Impressive Local Interest
Miami, Fla., was the No. 1 local market, earning a 15.6 rating. The rating is the market’s second highest on record for a regular season game on ESPN’s networks*. The complete top 10:

Rank Rating Market
1 15.6 Miami
2 10.0 Columbus
3 9.2 West Palm Beach
4 8.9 Orlando
5 8.4 Jacksonville
6 8.3 Ft. Myers
7 7.7 Greenville
8 7.5 Cincinnati
7.5 Tampa
10 7.4 Indianapolis

ABC/ESPN Set the Pace Among All Networks in the 2017 Season
The strong week 11 overnights continue a season trend of the two networks airing the highest-rated games, as ABC has televised the highest-rated game of the season and two networks have combined to air seven of the top 10 across all networks.

Rank Rating Game Network
1 7.3 Florida State at Alabama ABC
2 6.4 Penn State at Ohio State FOX
3 5.3 Oklahoma at Ohio State ABC
4 5.0 Michigan at Florida ABC
5 4.6 Georgia at Auburn CBS
6 4.5 Notre Dame at Miami ABC
7 4.2 Michigan at Penn State ABC
8 3.9 Michigan State at Michigan ABC
9 3.8 Alabama at Mississippi State ESPN
10 3.7 LSU at Alabama CBS
College GameDay Draws Best Rating of the Season
ESPN’s first-ever College GameDay Built by The Home Depot from the campus of the University of Miami drew a 1.5 overnight, the show’s highest-rating of the season.

*Local ratings go back to 2002; Florida State at Miami in 2014 drew a 16.2 local rating and ranks as the markets best on record

College Football Week 11: ABC?s Saturday Night Football Notre Dame at Miami Leads the Way across All Networks in Prime Time; ESPN?s Alabama at Mississippi State Delivers Highest-Rated Game on Cable this Season - ESPN MediaZone
 
Um, Acc tv contract. Not a Miami only contract. And it’s already in place.
 
Things are piecing together beautifully.

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I don't believe the ABC contract but I could see Adidas wanting to renegotiate the deal to ensure that Miami stays their premium brand in football. I would re-negotiate with Adidas a 20-year, 300 million (15 million per year) dollar contract with stipulations that no school can be paid more than us during the duration of the contract. Similar to the deal that Michigan had with them as their "premier" school.
 
We probably would have had the highest rated game had it not been so many great games on last night at the same time.
 
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We probably would have had the highest rated game had it not been so many great games on last night at the same time.

If we would have had even half of the Miss St./Bama audience it would have been the 2nd biggest of year

Yeah, our ratings were essentially affected by a breaking news event. Our game was a blowout and people saw that Alabama was losing and checked it out. They said it peaked near the end of the game, which accounts for its unusually high rating.
 
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