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it really doesn’t bother me, I’m not trying to claim A&M is a blue blood or something. I am genuinely curious to see where we slot on the viewership chart.

Anecdotally, there seems to be a divide within Texas and outside it that explains some of UT being a bigger deal.  Within the state, people who care about this stuff tend to see UT and A&M more as competing flagships.  Not even saying they're unaware of history, win%, etc., I just mean they tend to view UT as a big deal and A&M as the other big deal.  But outside of Texas, people who care about this stuff mentally classify things by state for obvious reasons, and UT not only has the better history, but they have the name.  Texas.  Which is not to say people are unaware of A&M, but it's like they have one team per state that's going to pop into their head, and for here, it's UT.  They view UT as the state's flagship and A&M as "that other school in Texas."  

No idea how universal that is, just something I believe I've noticed in my sphere.  

I'm very surprised LSU made the top 10 for that time frame.  The 90's were abysmal for LSU except for two seasons, and post-2019 has ranged from "back to abysmal" up to "meh."  Ol' Nick and Les musta won themselves a lot of games in the other half of that time frame. 

Take out Boise and Appy and it looks even better.

I'm very surprised LSU made the top 10 for that time frame.  The 90's were abysmal for LSU except for two seasons, and post-2019 has ranged from "back to abysmal" up to "meh."  Ol' Nick and Les musta won themselves a lot of games in the other half of that time frame. 

I'm very surprised UNL made the top 20.  93-03 was obviously great, but things REALLY fell off since 03

Anecdotally, there seems to be a divide within Texas and outside it that explains some of UT being a bigger deal.  Within the state, people who care about this stuff tend to see UT and A&M more as competing flagships.  Not even saying they're unaware of history, win%, etc., I just mean they tend to view UT as a big deal and A&M as the other big deal.  But outside of Texas, people who care about this stuff mentally classify things by state for obvious reasons, and UT not only has the better history, but they have the name.  Texas.  Which is not to say people are unaware of A&M, but it's like they have one team per state that's going to pop into their head, and for here, it's UT.  They view UT as the state's flagship and A&M as "that other school in Texas." 

No idea how universal that is, just something I believe I've noticed in my sphere. 

I don't disagree.  We usually fall somewhere about #18-22 on the Top Programs list.  We could probably move up a few spots, kind of like how LSU has managed to climb up that ladder since the late 90's, but we've never been able to break out of that cycle.  I think the only teams that really have are LSU, Florida, and Clemson.  Nebraska and Tennessee are going down in the pecking order, UF, LSU, and Clemson have been going up.  

Yay?
Are they coming out with "% of class retained" stat yet?  lol

nope, w/o the $$$ from a decent TV contract, they would decline

Eh, their results weren't so bad.  They could've poached the XII, too.  With USC and then Oregon, they had enough to matter.
But maybe college football fan street cred doesn't pay the bills.

I've often seen Wisconsin listed as one of the big teams that doesn't have a NC, looks like y'all were quite close over the years. 

A couple of those 1-loss UW teams never got any respect, which was stupid.  The '98 team never got above 8th, I think, despite starting out 8-0 or 9-0, wound up in the RB with 1 loss.
They couldn't pass at all, just handed it to Dayne a ton, and had a great defense.  Hell, if '98 Wisconsin played in 1978, they'd be held up on a pedestal to this day, lol.