Spotted Ratings, Saturday 12/7/13

WHAT MATTERS:

• In college football, national championship play-in games always draw a crowd. (Just look at Notre Dame-USC hanging a 5.1 last year.) On this night, somewhat uniquely, there were two of them going head-to-head in primetime, and the Big Ten was a clear winner over the ACC (and up triple digits vs. last year's less nationally significant game). Much of the gap was due to the quality of games; the discrepancy was much closer in the first half-hour (Big Ten 3.4 to ACC 2.3), but by 10:30 the Big Ten's game was nearly 4x the ACC (5.0 to 1.3). Given Florida State was a 29-point favorite in the ACC game, you could argue they did ABC a solid just by playing to a scoreless tie in the first quarter.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Saturday Night Football Pregame	0.6	25%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	10/13	n/a	+0%	+20%	0.7
Saturday Night Football	1.7	38%	+70%	+0.7	+0.0	7/13	n/a	+77%	+254%	2.0
							ABC:	+69%	+214%
SEC Championship Postgame	1.7	39%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	+55%	+55%	1.8
Mike and Molly (R)	0.8	35%						-27%	-27%	0.9
48 Hours	0.6	33%	-33%	-0.3	-0.2	10/10	-50%	-37%	-37%	0.8
Mountain West Championship	0.5	37%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	-47%	-58%	0.7
							CBS:	-22%	-28%
Christmas in Rockefeller Center (R)	0.5	24%						+11%	+67%	0.6
The Blacklist (R)	0.5	25%						+0%	+100%	0.7
Saturday Night Live (R)	0.8	34%						+0%	+33%	1.1
							NBC:	+3%	+57%
Big Ten Championship Pregame	2.1	38%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	+163%	+40%	2.3
Big Ten Championship	4.5	41%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	+165%	+514%	+114%	5.0
							Fox:	+420%	+100%
							Big4:	+100%	+66%

KEY (click to expand)

A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.
Skew - Percentage of adults 18-49 within the show's total viewership.
Last - A18-49 difference (percent and numerical) from the show's previous episode.
LeLa - A18-49 difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for the previous episode.
Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes so far this season.
y2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the show's rating a year ago.
TLa - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one week ago.
Ty2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one year ago.
True - A metric that adjusts the A18-49 rating for overall viewing levels, competition and lead-in. PRELIMINARY CALCULATION. For finals, see SpotVault.

(R) - Repeat.

Much more detail on these numbers at the New Daily Spotted Ratings page.

More Spotted Ratings in the Index.