I was SO ready to blame the College Football Playoff Rankings Show for turning off viewers, but it actually received the
highest ratings for ESPN that night, both in 18-49 demographic and in overall viewers.
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In case you can't read that and don't want to click the link, the CFP Rankings Show had 2,139,000 viewers, then Duke-Kentucky with 1,782,000, then Kansas-Michigan State with 1,517,000.
I know college football is more popular than college basketball, but this is ridiculous. That show was manufactured nonsense drama to keep ESPN analysts talking until the next rankings come out.