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<p>Please, any self-respecting college football fan should not perpetuate the SEC superiority myth through an means, as it is detrimental to the entirety of the sport.</p>
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<p>The Territorial Cup is a trophy that is awarded annually to the winner of the college football game (commonly referred to as “The Duel in the Desert”) between the Arizona State University (ASU) Sun Devils and the University of Arizona (UA) Wildcats and has also served as the symbol of the long standing rivalry between the two schools. The NCAA has certified it as the oldest award given for a rivalry game.</p>
<p>Duke-Carolina in all sports. Classic top ranked national private school vs large public university. ND-USC football only.</p>
<p>Ummm UNC/Duke isn’t really a big deal in football.</p>
<p>^ UNC/Duke is on NOBODY’s radar screen in football, by far the biggest of all college sports.</p>
<p>Army-Navy. Nothing comes close. If you go 1-11 and beat the other, the season wasn’t that bad. if you go 11-1 and lose to the other, your season was not good.</p>
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<p>Football is NOT the biggest of all college sports. The average TV rating for the College Football BCS “national championship” game since 2003-2008 has been 16.9, whereas the average TV rating for the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball game over the same period has been 19.4.</p>
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<p>Same with Dook-Carolina. It is said that if you lose the head-to-head down here, but win the national championship, then the national championship means nothing.</p>
<p>Attendance at football is higher than at basketball, even though far more schools play basketball and there are far more games per season. Media attention seems much higher for football as well, but that is subjective. </p>
<p>Attendance figures. </p>
<p>Basketball <a href=“http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/m_basketball_RB/Reports/attend/2008.pdf[/url]”>http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/m_basketball_RB/Reports/attend/2008.pdf</a></p>
<p>Football <a href=“http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/football_records/Attendance/2008.pdf[/url]”>http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/football_records/Attendance/2008.pdf</a></p>
<p>Of course football will have higher attendance levels. The largest college basketball stadium only seats 33,000 people, and most are around 20,000 (or less). Football stadiums are much, much larger.</p>
<p>A better figure would be TV ratings.</p>
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<p>The tens of thousands of people more attending a football game does not make up for the millions more watching basketball on TV.</p>
<p>Find a link for those cumulative ratings. Good luck with that. I’m not convinced that millions more watch basketball. If there do have an advantage, again, you must consider that there are many more schools with basketball teams than football programs, and three times as many games. Check revenue figures too. </p>
<p>Cuse… I mentioned that football has larger arenas. I also mentioned that there are 12 football games a year compared to 35 basketball games, as well as there are far more schools which play basketball compared to division 1 football. </p>
<p>Football is the bigger sport. I realize you go to UNC phonyreal but for everyone else, football is bigger.</p>
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<p>If so, then why do more people on average watch the men’s BB national title game than the BCS national championship game?</p>
<p>Both are HUGE sports.</p>
<p>^^^That’s easy to answer. It’s a real tournament. If they ever play a Div. 1 football tournament for an NCAA championship, you’ll get numbers that will approach a super bowl.</p>
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<p>So you’re trying to say that people don’t really care about the BCS championship game? That’s one of the reasons that NCAA basketball is so huge in this country; its hard to beat March Madness.</p>
<p>[CFB</a> - - FOX Sports on MSN](<a href=“http://www.bcsfootball.org/bcsfb/tvratings]CFB”>http://www.bcsfootball.org/bcsfb/tvratings)</p>
<p>[NCAA</a> Men’s Basketball Tournament Nielsen TV Ratings, 1975-2008 - TV Ratings, Nielsen Ratings, Television Show Ratings | TVbytheNumbers.com](<a href=“Private Site”>Private Site)</p>
<p>You want sources? You got 'em.</p>
<p>Are you talking about athletics or academics? haha
As far as athletics go, aren’t Ohio and Florida pretty competitive in football?
Academically though, I’d have to say Harvard vs. Yale.</p>
<p>"So you’re trying to say that people don’t really care about the BCS championship game? That’s one of the reasons that NCAA basketball is so huge in this country; its hard to beat March Madness.:</p>
<p>I’m saying that March Madness is a much better setup for a post season tournament. They don’t have a 4-6 week spread between regular season and national championship game. That doesn’t mean that college basketball overall is more popular than college football. IMO college football is huge week in and week out. College bb only gets to be huge in March for the most part.</p>
<p>phonyreal, again you are comparing the championship game of basketball to the bcs championship game. I never argued that football was bigger there. I meant overall ratings, or revenue generated or something like that. Cumulative. That would show one sport “bigger” than the other. I’ve read a zillion times about how revenue from the football programs funds other sports (not basketball before you say it).</p>
<p>As a Gator alum, I’d say there is no comparison.
The basketball championships were very, very nice.
The football championships meant the world.</p>