Why would the TV audience care if there are empty seats?
Human nature. If there is no one in the seats, why watch on tv? And it’s more than obvious this has been done by the networks for decades, so please save the obtuseness.
It's never mattered to me. If the game is entertaining, I watch it. Covid must have been tough for some fans who base their viewing pleasure on in person attendance.
It doesn’t matter to me either, but I guarantee there’s statistics that the networks look at. Also, it’s just a bad look to see a stadium half empty in general.
The meaningless bowl games will go away when cities, sponsors, and television networks start losing money on them. I don't think that will be happening anytime soon. Bowl games are as big a part of the holiday season as Christmas trees and New Year's Eve parties.
No idea but it’s pretty obvious they do exactly what I said.
We'll see, but since the beginning of the BCS and 4 team playoff the number of bowls has increased not decreased. Maybe fans just enjoy watching games even if they don't mean anything. There are 47 D1 bowl games this year.
"Ol Bret Bielema didn't make any friends today.
