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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
You can unbold Louisville and Las Vegas. As you can see from the data, CBB actually has fans in Michigan, Connecticut, KC/STL, etc. Probably because the "blue bloods" are located across the country and not concentrated in one area. College football won't expand popularity if one quadrant (and one small group of teams therein) win all the time.
The title games and regular season games show much less concentration which I can re-post if you like. To your broader point about there being "overlap", yes. That's correct, I've stated as much. According to Harris Polling, people who watch college football tend to also watch college basketball at some significant level.
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College Football is much more regional than other sports. Fans of college football typically don't leave or get jobs outside of the place they were born. Lower income people concentrated in places like Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, etc stay close to home all their lives thus the tv numbers reflect this.
Nationwide Mutual, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Mercedes, Nissan, Volkswagen, AT&T, Capitol One, etc spend much much more money on CBB because those are the customers that have value.