College Football Championship Ratings Crash by 12 Percent in First Year of Expanded Playoffs
The ratings are in from the CFP national championship game in the first year of the expanded playoff, and they show a 12 percent decline from last year.

The ratings are in from the CFP national championship game in the first year of the expanded playoff, and they show a 12 percent decline from last year.
Several members of the victorious Ohio State Buckeyes openly praised God after winning college football’s national title on Sunday.
The Ohio State post-game victory party literally took a very unexpected and nearly disastrous turn Monday night after winning the national championship.
Fans of the Ohio State Buckeyes went on a destructive rampage in Columbus Monday after their team won the college football national title.
President Trump made a surprise appearance during the national championship game between Notre Dame and Ohio State Monday night. In a rousing halftime video message, he told viewers, “We’re going to make America great again.”
ESPN took much heat for not airing the national anthem before the Sugar Bowl game between Notre Dame and Georgia following the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans.
Regarding Monday night’s national championship game between Notre Dame and Ohio State, viewers will get the national anthem and much more.
This year’s national championship game features the two most outwardly faithful teams in college football, and, according to Notre Dame’s QB Riley Leonard, that’s just how God planned it.
It’s commonly understood that following moments of great national tragedy or crisis, that patriotic anthems and symbols will be given primacy during sports broadcasts.
Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman delivered the perfect response to a race-baiting question from ESPN’s Molly McGrath.
Angry Notre Dame fans threw bottles on the field in retaliation for what they perceived as a bad pass interference call that robbed the Irish of an interception late in their Orange Bowl game against Penn State.
In a move that may prove unwise, Penn State head coach James Franklin took a shot at Notre Dame by calling for “consistency” in college football and stressing that “everyone should be in a conference.”
Georgia was looking for under-the-radar players to step up and impact the game in Thursday night’s Sugar Bowl game against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, but it’s safe to say this is not what UGA head coach Kirby Smart had in mind.
Tom Wilson, the chairman and chief executive officer of Allstate – sponsor of the Sugar Bowl – sparked severe backlash on social media Thursday afternoon after his statement following the New Year’s Day terror attacks in New Orleans.
The Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans held a moment of silence to honor those killed or injured in Wednesday’s terror attack on Bourbon Street.
The University of Notre Dame is inviting fans who are in New Orleans to attend the Sugar Bowl to join together in prayer for the victims.
The Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans, the site of Wednesday night’s Sugar Bowl clash between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Georgia Bulldogs, is on lockdown as security teams sweep the facility for explosives and other threats following Wednesday morning’s deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street.
A report from WDSU in New Orleans says that Wednesday night’s scheduled Sugar Bowl matchup between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Georgia Bulldogs, has been postponed until Thursday following a deadly terror attack that killed and wounded dozens on Bourbon Street Wednesday morning.
New Orleans police have indicated that Wednesday night’s Sugar Bowl matchup between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Georgia Bulldogs will go on as scheduled after a deadly attack in which a driver drove a truck into a Bourbon Street crowd, killing and wounding dozens.
Notre Dame’s “Fighting Irish” hockey team is headed to Belfast, Ireland, to participate in the annual Friendship Four hockey event. Still, the school felt the need to warn students what not to wear when visiting the Emerald Isles. Essentially telling
Lou Holtz responded to the presence of a transgender volleyball player on the San Jose State University (SJSU) women’s team.
Lou Holtz, the legendary college football coach from the likes of Notre Dame and South Carolina, denounced men in women’s sports.
Lou Holtz has high praise for Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker and said his speech showed “showed courage and commitment.”
Several high-profile sports commentators have turned on Notre Dame football and are asking why they keep getting so much TV time.
The Notre Dame football program announced the addition of a kicker to its roster after Eric Goins was picked up after coming off a seven-year stint in the United States Army.
In 2013, Brent Musburger dared to draw attention to the beauty of Miss Alabama Katherine Webb, and was blasted by the media for it.
For the fourth week in a row, college football fans spontaneously broke out in a chant of “F*ck Joe Biden.”
Ex-Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz blasted a recent survey that claimed that the school’s Fighting Irish leprechaun mascot is somehow offensive.
Notre Dame pushes back against a survey that rated its leprechaun the fourth most offensive among college mascots.
Hot on the tail of his retiring from the NFL, Drew Brees has announced he has inked a huge deal as a sports commentator with NBC Sports.
Former Notre Dame star and Houston Texan Louis Nix III, 29, was found dead in Florida three days after being reported missing by his other.
Notre Dame has told video game giant EA Sports that it will not be allowed to include the university in its NCAA college football video game.
Jan. 21 (UPI) — The NCAA placed the Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s football program on probation for one year due to multiple recruiting violations, it was announced Thursday.
Lou Holtz has won more than his fair share of championships, awards, and accolades in his lifetime, but he’s going to get at least one more.
Former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz has tested positive for the Coronavirus.
Paul Hornung, one of the most versatile and beloved players in football history, has died from dementia at the age of 84.
Notre Dame student expressed their joy by charging the field on Saturday night, after the Irish beat a #1 ranked team for the first time since 1993. Notre Dame’s school president, however, is less enthused.
When they scheduled Notre Dame and Clemson for prime time in early November they probably didn’t think that the game would be missing its biggest star, but that’s exactly what’s going to happen.
Lou Holtz accused former Vice President Joe Biden of being a Catholic “in name only,” while speaking at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday.
In an interview with Jewish Insider, 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg insisted that it was not “fair” to expect college athletes to play without being paid.
Notre Dame recently announced the three students who will serve as their team’s leprechaun mascot this season, but some social media users were not pleased with the choices.