2019 Crown The Patriots Week 8 Score Report

• 43.73 points per game this week for the 15 games.  8 week average for the 121 games played:  44.88 PPG.  (Last year:  49.14 for the week, 48.12 for the season)
• Finally a good week for the home teams:  10-4!  By far their best of the year.  Still, that's 55-62-1 (.470) for the season.  (Last year:  8-5 for 73-43-2 (.627))
• The Over was 6-9 for 53-65-3.  (Last year:  5-8-1 for 58-60-3.)
• Favorites had a 7-8 week against the number, but 13-2 straight up.  Season:  51-66-3 against the spread.  77-42-1 straight up.  (Last year:  ATS:  8-6 for 56-63-2.  SU:  11-3 for 81-38-2.)
• Team with more penalties was 7-7 for 53-56-1 for the year.  (Last year:  5-7 for 47-56-2.)
• 207 penalties accepted this week.  13.8 per game.  That makes 1,750 for the year, 14.46 per game.  (Last year:  184 penalties in 14 games (13.14)  Season:  1607 in 121 games (13.28))
• One Cliffhanger (the winner in Indianapolis) -- only the 13th this year.  (Last year:  2 for 26 total -- twice as many as this year.)
• 7 games finished within 8 points for 61 for the season -- just over half!  (50.4%)  (Last year:  7 for 66)
• 4 non-competitive games for 42 for the year.  (Last year:  6 for 41)
• And 3 Last Chance Misses for 35 total for the year (Last year:  2 for 32)

One quick note:

• Tonight's game made it, through eight weeks, eleven NFL contests where the Vegas spread was at least two touchdowns.  Only two entire seasons, according to Pro Football Reference, had more:  1992 had 19.  The record is 2009's 20!  This was the 263rd NFL game with a spread of two touchdowns or more.  Pittsburgh spotted Miami 14, and did not cover in the 27-14 win.

Ratings from Sports Media Watch:

• CBS National:  14.0, down 7% (mostly Patriots-Browns)
• CBS Regional:  6.9, down 15% and the lowest Week 8 regional slot since 2003!
• FOX Single:  11.5, up 12%
• Sunday Night:  10.4, up 25%

Meanwhile, over in baseball:

Through five games, the 2019 World Series has produced four of the 10 least-viewed World Series games on record https://t.co/su9z8HaP7U pic.twitter.com/PQM7JUQUfU

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) October 29, 2019

And according to Sports Media Watch, not only was the Packers-Chiefs SNF game the best-rated SNF opponent to the World Series in four years, Saturday night's Game 4 was the lowest-rated in the history of the World Series! (5.9 and only barely 10.2 million viewers -- the least watched was Tampa-Philadelphia's Game 3 in 2008, 9.84 million).

And Trump didn't help Game 5 either:  The viewership matched Game 4's.