GKJ
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- Feb 27, 2002
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Personally, I’ve got people that have known how long I’ve been watching college football who are talking to me about it that never have before.To the bolded, exactly. People that don't otherwise care about college football are interested in this, and casual fans are fired right up. I think it was the CU-Nebraska game that drew more betting action than every NFL game combined? This is good-natured lunacy taking place.
I might be talking out of my ass, but is Notre Dame really still a big deal to people born after ~1980? I have a hard time believing a random Irish game against Duke would draw many eyeballs away from Prime right now, other than people who are specifically ND fans. Maybe I'm wrong.
People are betting on Colorado games more than NFL games.
This is nothing like we have seen before. And quite frankly, the early hype leading into the season was understated as we’ve come to see. Winning the TCU game helped, but that still was a case where the game delivered on the hype.
Notre Dame, probably not as much, but they do still have a measured gravitas in certain markets, specifically big markets that don’t have or are underserved by college football.