Games this week with over 1M viewers:
- USC @ CU: 7.24M
- Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry: 6.40M
- ND @ Duke: 5.32M
- Michigan @ Nebraska: 4.48M
- Magnolia Bowl: 3.72M
- Battle for Highway 82 (do they really call Bama v State this name?): 3.35M
- KU @ TEXAS: 3.32M
- Florida @ Kentucky: 2.32M
- Sparty @ Iowa: 2.17M
- Clemson @ Cuse: 1.98M
- Louisville @ NC State: 1.89M
- Utah @ OSU: 1.28M
- Cinci @ BYU: 1.23M
- The B1G Network noon game (either Penn State @ Northwestern or Louisiana @ Minnesota): 1.12M
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Battle for Highway 82
Since no earlier than 1934, and with modern expansions through georgia and New Mexico their stretch accounts for no more than 5% of the route’s length. It really is a shitty name, a wannabe War for I-4. Apparently it also goes by The 90 Mile Drive, which is way cooler.
Sources:
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/us82.cfm
https://web.archive.org/web/20080302175612/http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/gymrome/98165
The 90 Mile Drive
Now that is a really cool name, especially for a football game. It would be perfect if it involved a service academy (flashback to the 2019 Cheez-It Bowl where a single Air Force drive consumed an entire quarter)
