UC Davis Athletics Joining Mountain West - Football to Follow
is in the #20 tv market in the USA, the biggest one without a pro football or FBS team.
. The issue is that when one strategies that by market viewership sector, in this case those interested in college football, it would not rank as high. As
@LeFan states community apathy and culture is difficult to overcome. When I attended the University of Tennessee (decades ago) everyone was either at the game or listening to it - heck they even piped it in at Krogers (even though hardly no one was there shopping due to game being played. When I was walking around Savis prior to the Rhode Island game - I saw hundreds of students - many in coffee shops on computers but all seemingly totally ignorant that a football game was about to be played. Not much different from my days at UCD when it seemed all students were at the library.
Major differences in culture re: college football. And in northern cal. that extends to Cal and Stanford.