Boy, I sure am glad that we’re destroying the sport so that less than 5% of the country can tune into watch:
The good news for ESPN appears to be that ratings were up from last season’s title game. However, that matchup between Alabama and Ohio State produced the worst ratings of the playoff era with an average of 18.6 million viewers.
Monday’s national championship comes in as the second-lowest viewership of the playoff era, and the second-lowest title game viewership in 16 years.
By comparison, the 2018 national championship between Alabama and Georgia drew 28.