Of course that would have been a lot better for us had we won, or at least scored a TD. But hey exposure is exposure and I’d venture to guess that this game probably had more viewers than any other game we’ve ever played. Anytime we can get our name out there more it always helps, just like I’m sure Kevin’s chase of Barry’s record helped in viewership!

Over 3.9 Million households tuned into to watch the Liberty Bowl, making it ESPN’s 3rd highest watched bowl game of the entire bowl season. It also beat out games that were played on network TV such as the Sun Bowl which was on CBS but only 2.5 million tuned into watch USF get stomped by Oregon. It also edged the Cotton Bowl on Fox which matched Missouri vs Arkansas, beating it by a very slim 10,000 viewers. All in all, great news for UCF football!

Here are all the ratings from the bowls.

All numbers are from FootballFoundation.com, please click the link here to view the full story
with some nice tidbits. The bowls are listed in chronological order, the number in ( ) is game attendance while the number in [ ] is TV households.

• San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl: Utah 35, Navy 32, ESPN:
(39,129) & [1,932,246]

• R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl: Florida Atlantic 44, Memphis 27, ESPN2:
(25,146) & [1,561,000]

• Papajohns.com Bowl: Cincinnati 31, Southern Miss 21, ESPN2:
(35,258) & [2,167,420]

• New Mexico Bowl: New Mexico 23, Nevada 0, ESPN:
(30,233) & [1,888,695]

• Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas Bowl: Brigham Young 17, UCLA 16, ESPN:
(40,712) & [2,390,098]

• Sheraton Hawaii Bowl: East Carolina 41, Boise State 38, ESPN:
(30,467) & [1,415,395]

• Motor City Bowl: Purdue 51, Central Michigan 48, ESPN:
(60,624) & [2,584,994]

• Pacific Life Holiday Bowl: Texas 52, Arizona State 34, ESPN:
(64,020) & [4,223,682]

• Champs Sports Bowl: Boston College 24, Michigan State 21, ESPN:
(46,554) & [3,561,309]

• Texas Bowl: TCU 20, Houston 13, NFL Network:
(62,097) & [326,650]

• Emerald Bowl: Oregon State 21, Maryland 14, ESPN:
(32,517) & [3,463,061]

• Meineke Car Care Bowl: Wake Forest 24, Connecticut 10, ESPN:
(53,126) & [3,607,429]

• AutoZone Liberty Bowl: Mississippi State 10, UCF 3, ESPN:
(63,816) & [3,986,674]

• Valero Alamo Bowl: Penn State 24, Texas A&M 17, ESPN:
(66,166) & [2,568,881]

• PetroSun Independence Bowl: Alabama 30, Colorado 24, ESPN:
(47,043) & [1,828,965]

• Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl: California 42, Air Force 36, ESPN:
(40,975) & [1,928,556]

• Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl: Fresno State 40, Georgia Tech 28, ESPN2:
(27,062) & [745,082]

• Brut Sun Bowl: Oregon 56, USF 21, CBS:
(49,867) & [2,554,678]

• Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl: Kentucky 35, Florida State 28, ESPN:
(68,681) & [3,883,875]

• Insight Bowl: Oklahoma State 49, Indiana 33, NFL Network:
(48,892) & [458,918]

• Chick-Fil-A Bowl: Auburn 23, Clemson 20 (OT), ESPN:
(74,413) & [4,919,331]

• Outback Bowl: Tennessee 21, Wisconsin 17, ESPN:
(60,121) & [3,260,313]

• AT&T Cotton Bowl: Missouri 38, Arkansas 7, Fox:
(73,114) & [3,974,484]

• Konica Minolta Gator Bowl: Texas Tech 31, Virginia 28, CBS:
(60,243) & [2,960,799]

• Capital One Bowl: Michigan 41, Florida 35, ABC:
(69,748) & [10,301,679]

• Rose Bowl presented by Citi: Southern California 49, Illinois 17, ABC:
(93,923) & [12,531,880]

• Allstate Sugar Bowl: Georgia 41, Hawai’i 10, Fox:
(74,383) & [7,850,519]

• Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: West Virginia 48, Oklahoma 28, Fox:
(70,016) & [8,736,935]

• FedEx Orange Bowl: Kansas 24, Virginia Tech 21, Fox:
(74,111) & [8,345,715]

• International Bowl: Rutgers 52, Ball State 30, ESPN:
(31,455) & [1,528,141]

• GMAC Bowl: Tulsa 63, Bowling Green 7, ESPN:
(36,932) & [1,096,521]

• Allstate BCS National Championship: LSU 38, Ohio State 24, Fox:
(79,651) & [16,291,263]