The College Football Playoff's first-round matchups didn't deliver the television ratings goods in the second year of a 12-team field last weekend.
As College Football HQ On SI's Joe Cox noted, there were several reasons why ratings were down from last year: the NFL hosted a high-stakes NFC North showdown between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears that featured a major comeback and overtime win on the same day, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish didn't make the field over the Group of 5's Tulane Green Wave and James Madison Dukes, and the weekend's closest matchup, the Miami Hurricanes and the TAMU Aggies at Kyle Field, was put on at 11 AM central on Saturday morning.