No question the stakes were higher. But the MWC Championship game had over 3.05 million TV viewers and 2 million more than the year before and set a record. That is a huge jump! So much for the metrics! It just shows that the Boise/UNLV game could have developed into a rivalry that interested a national audience. Also, there wasn’t a P4 team playing to improve the ratings. Just two G5 programs that obtained P4 like ratings.
Mountain West football's top-rated television games during the 2024 season
The Mountain West championship game set a record television viewership with 3.005 million viewers on the Fox broadcast last Friday night, which was up from the
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