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Tim Tebow gets twice the TV ratings of LSU, Alabama BCS Championship

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Tim Tebow and fascination around him dwarfed interest in the BCS National Championship Game

Based on household ratings, network executives probably want to marry Tim Tebow, too

I tried to tell you guys that Tim Tebow was bigger than the BCS National Championship Game between LSU and Alabama.

Little did I know that he would be nearly twice as big.

The LSU-Alabama  championship game on primetime Monday night drew a 13.8 household rating – the lowest in the 14-year history of the BCS title game.  Meanwhile, the NFL wildcard playoff game between Tebow’s Denver Broncos and the Pittsburgh Steelers drew an astounding 25.9  houshold rating – the highest number for a wildcard game in 24 years and the highest-rated telecast in Central Florida since last year’s Super Bowl. And, astonishingly, the Broncos-Steelers was not in primetime.

These ratings also go to show how college football, even though it is immensely popular – especially in the South — is dwarfed in popularity by the NFL. There is no question the NFL is America’s most popular sport by a mile and Tebow is the NFL’s most popular athlete by a mile. The point was proven on Twitter Sunday evening immediately after Tebow threw an 80-yard, game-winning touchdown pass on the first play of overtime. Twitter had a record 9,420 tweets per second about Tebow. That’s the highest ever for a sporting event and represented even more tweets per second than the raid on the compound where Osama Bin Laden was killed (5,106).

Just goes to show that at least on Twitter good can still overcome evil.

Anybody out there besides the Jacksonville Jaguars shocked at how immensely popular Tebow has become?

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