According to a press release from CBS Interactive, a huge number of people watched the game through digital platforms. In fact, the LSU/Alabama game is believed to hold the record for the largest number of fans to watch a football game via the web and iOS devices.
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Twitter feeds from all 32 National Football League teams will be featured in Draft Show Live on CBSSports.com, along with the ability for fans to interact with other fans and discuss picks during the 2011 NFL Draft.
College-basketball fans who haven’t quenched their March Madness thirst when Sunday’s one-hour 2011 NCAA Basketball Championship Selection Show ends on CBS at 7 p.m. ET can squeeze one more hour out of CBSSports.com, which will stream Bracket Breakdown, a live show featuring analysis and predictions for the 2011 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.
CBSSports.com original video host Jason Horowitz will host Bracket Breakdown, along with former St. John’s men’s basketball coach Norm Roberts, and CBSSports.com senior college-basketball writer Gary Parrish.
Once the brackets are announced, CBSSports.com will also feature four games: Bracket Manager, sponsored by AT&T, allowing fans to organize bracket competitions with friends and co-workers; Bracket Challenge, sponsored by Infiniti, where fans can compete against entrants from around the world for the grand prize, a trip for four to the 2012 Men’s Final Four in New Orleans; the Round-by-Round Bracket Game for Coaches Against Cancer, also sponsored by Infiniti, in which fans make their picks during each round, with prizes including computer tablets and the same grand prize as the Bracket Challenge; and Facebook Brackets and Pick 4, sponsored by Lowe’s, for members of the social-networking site.
Listen up, literally: CBSSports.com will add live game audio and in-game player highlights from MLB.com to its CBSSports.com Fantasy Baseball Commissioner service under terms of an exclusive, multiyear partnership announced Monday.
Players will have access, at no extra cost, to live home or away feeds for all 2,430 regular-season Major League Baseball games, with no blackouts, and the service’s live-scoring pages will also link to in-game highlights for each player.
In addition, each MLB player page will contain a highlight compilation to aid with drafting decisions
National Signing Day, when high-school athletes declare their college destinations, is set for Wednesday, Feb. 2, and CBSSports.com and CBSSports.com College Network are ready to sign their letters of intent.
The CBSSports.com 2011 Signing Day site will offer continuous coverage up to and through National Signing Day, including braking news, video, and analysis by experts including Tom Lemming, MaxPreps.com national football editor Stephen Spiewak, CBSSports.com recruiting expert Bryan Fischer, and MaxPreps.com senior writer and columnist Mitch Stephens.
CBSSports.com will also rank the top college recruiting classes, provide a state-by-state breakdown of signed players, track major players who remain unsigned, and offer a match-up tool allowing users to do head-to-head comparison of any of the 2,500 players in the MaxPreps.com database.
The site also includes a player-commitment database with a dedicated page for every Division I recruit, as well as a page listing signings for each of the 120 FBS programs.
As for CBSSports.com College Network, its roster of more than 175 official athletic school sites will offer live streaming of press conferences, exclusive on-demand video content, features, and individual recruit highlight packages.
Select college-basketball games from the Big East, Big Ten, and Southeastern Conference will once again be live-streamed by CBSSports.com and CBS Sports Mobile, starting with the 2010-11 season debut of College Basketball Live Saturday, when South Carolina travels to No. 2 Ohio State at 2 p.m. ET.
More than 20 games will be streamed free-of-charge, and users will have access to a scoreboard feature with in-game statistics, scores from other games, standings, live chat, video previews, and on-demand highlights.
The CBS Sports Mobile iPhone app will also provide full NCAA Division I college basketball scoreboards, individual GameTrackers for top 25 matchups, polls, headlines, and standings.
CBSSports.com senior vice president and general manager Jason Kint said:
We’re thrilled to have a tremendous slate of live college basketball games on CBSSports.com. Over the course of 2010, CBSSports.com has streamed nearly 11,000 live sports events and press conferences, and we look forward to building on that in 2011.
The minor controversy in college football’s Bowl Championship Series ratings that resulted in Boise State being moved up to No. 10 and LSU being dropped to the No. 11 spot was the result of an error discovered by Jerry Palm of CBSSports.com.
The final BCS ratings show LSU ranked 10th and Boise State 11th. But I discovered a mistake that would switch the order of those teams. Boise State should be 10th in the overall BCS standings and LSU should be No. 11.
Wes Colley‘s final rankings, as submitted to the BCS, were incorrect. The Appalachian State-Western Illinois FCS playoff game was missing from his data set. I will spare you some of the gory, mathematical details, but the net result of that omission in Colley’s rankings is that LSU, which he ranked ninth, and his No. 10, Boise State, should be switched. Alabama and Nebraska, which he had 17th and 18th, would also be swapped.
Palm’s discovery led to a scathing email from Boise State president Bob Kustra, as reported by CBSSports.com:
How many times have we heard calls for transparency on our campuses, and how many times have we shared our governance and communicated with our faculties and other constituencies in transparent fashion?. Yet, in intercollegiate athletics, with the NCAA standing silently on the sidelines, we allow the BCS to work its magic with no idea of how accurate its rankings are on a week-to-week basis.
Fans of Southeastern Conference football who aren’t near their television sets may be spending quite a bit of time on CBSSports.com or hunched over their iPhones, as the Web site will offer the SEC on CBS game of the week free-of-charge, and the broadcast network’s entire SEC schedule will be available via the CBS Sports Mobile iPhone app.
The SEC on CBS game of the week slate kicks off Saturday at 3:30 p.m. ET with the rivalry match-up of Florida at Tennessee. The live game feeds on CBSSports.com will offer a scoreboard feature with in-game statistics, as well as scores and standings from throughout the NCAA, along with live chat, video previews, and breaking news from reporters’ Twitter accounts.
The iPhone app will also provide full scoreboards, polls, headlines, standings, and individual GameTrackers for games involving teams ranked in the top 25.
If the Major League Baseball pennant races, the host of rivalry games in college football, and the opening weekend of the National Football League season weren’t enough to quench sports fans’ thirst this weekend, CBSSports.com and USOpen.org will live-stream CBS Sports’ broadcast of the U.S. Open Men’s Final at 4 p.m. ET.
The match-up of No. 1 seed Rafael Nadal and No. 3 seed Novak Djokovic was originally scheduled for Sunday, but steady rain forced a postponement.
