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Packers QB Jordan Love is 70 overall in ‘Madden NFL 24’

Packers QB Jordan Love is 70 overall at launch in “Madden NFL 24.” He ranks tied for 33rd among all quarterbacks. Ouch.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love won’t start out as a great virtual passer in “Madden NFL 24,” the new video game from EA Sports.

Love, the first-year starter for the Packers, is a 70 overall in the launch ratings.

Love has 90 throwing power, 81 speed, 85 acceleration, 67 awareness, 73 break sack, 82 throw under pressure, 84 short accuracy, 79 medium accuracy, 79 deep accuracy, 83 throw on the run and 80 play action.

At 70 overall, Love ranks tied for 33rd among all quarterbacks.

Madden just doesn’t have much to work with from an evaluation standpoint. Love has made one NFL start and thrown 83 regular-season passes (that said, rookie Anthony Richardson is also a 70 overall). The Packers’ new starting quarterback will have a chance to make a big jump, especially virtually, if he’s solid during the 2023 season.

The Packers backups? Even worse. Sean Clifford is a 59 overall, while Danny Etling is a 48 overall (Note: Etling’s rating looks wrong compared to his overall stats and an adjustment could be coming). Alex McGough is not on the Packers virtual roster as of Friday.

Madden 24 player ratings for former Georgia football safeties, WRs

Here are Madden 24 ratings for former Georgia Bulldog safeties, WRs

EA Sports’ Madden 2024 is releasing player ratings ahead of the game’s roll-out scheduled for Aug. 18.

Former Georgia Bulldog safeties Lewis Cine, Christopher Smith, Mark Webb Jr., Richard LeCounte and wide receivers George Pickens, Mecole Hardman, Isaiah McKenzie and Chris Conley already have their ratings set ahead of the 2023 season.

Here are their ratings:

Here are the Broncos’ safety ratings in ‘Madden NFL 24’

Broncos defensive back Justin Simmons has a 92 overall rating in “Madden NFL 24,” making him the third-best safety in the video game.

EA Sports is rolling out ratings for “Madden NFL 24” this week and we now know the ratings for every Denver Broncos safety in the popular video game.

Broncos star defensive back Justin Simmons is the team’s top-rated safety with an overall rating of 92. He is the third-highest-rated safety in the game, only trailing Minkah Fitzpatrick (93 overall) and Derwin James (95 overall). Simmons was rated 91 overall last year.

Behind Simmons is Kareem Jackson, who dropped down to 78 OVR this year after being rated 81 OVR last season. Up next is Caden Sterns, who jumped from 69 OVR in 2022 to 73 OVR in 2023.

P.J. Locke also saw a significant increase from last year, jumping from 63 OVR in “Madden 23” to 68 OVR in “Madden 24.” Denver rookie JL Skinner (66) currently edges out Delarrin Turner-Yell (65 OVR). Devon Key (60 OVR) is the team’s lowest-rated safety.

To view all of the team’s “Madden” ratings from last year, click here.

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TV ratings: Canadian GP, Road America

With NASCAR taking last weekend off ahead of its shift from FOX Sports to NBC Sports networks, Formula 1 had a rare chance to play the big dog role for U.S. motorsports with the Canadian Grand Prix on ABC. The live telecast averaged a 0.77 Nielsen …

With NASCAR taking last weekend off ahead of its shift from FOX Sports to NBC Sports networks, Formula 1 had a rare chance to play the big dog role for U.S. motorsports with the Canadian Grand Prix on ABC.

The live telecast averaged a 0.77 Nielsen rating and 1.394 million household viewers per numbers from ShowBuzzDaily.com for the entire ABC telecast, which included the lengthy pre-race show. That’s basically level with last year, which averaged 0.78/1.380m on ABC. However, the race-only portion of the telecast (from 2-4pm ET) averaged 1.76 million viewers, ABC/ESPN reports. That is the fourth-largest live F1 audience ever after this year’s races at Miami and Monaco — which ranked second and third — so three of the four largest live F1 audiences ever have been recorded in 2023.

F1 also ranked second in motorsports programming with its Saturday qualifying coverage on ESPN2, which averaged 0.31/555,000 viewers.

The NTT IndyCar Series was on USA Network for its Road America race telecast, which averaged 0.23 and 385,000 viewers. That’s up slightly in viewers from last year’s first race of the season on USA, at Detroit’s Belle Isle (0.23, 354K). Last year’s Road America race aired on NBC, where it averaged 0.69/1.087m.

TV ratings: Charlotte, Detroit, Spain, WWTR

After its rain-affected Memorial Day weekend, NASCAR had another brush with inclement weather last weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway, but rebounded after a brief delay. The delayed NASCAR Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day Monday …

After its rain-affected Memorial Day weekend, NASCAR had another brush with inclement weather last weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway, but rebounded after a brief delay.

The delayed NASCAR Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day Monday averaged a 1.92 Nielsen rating and 3.399 million viewers on FOX, per numbers from ShowBuzzDaily.com, which compares reasonably well with the 2.20/3.869m for 2022’s race on Sunday, also on FOX.

Sunday’s slightly rain-impacted WWTR Cup race averaged 1.27/2.160m on FS1, down from 1.47/2.502m last year.

The first race for the NTT IndyCar Series on the new downtown Detroit Grand Prix course averaged 0.65/1.047m on NBC. Including streaming numbers, the race averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 1.098m, per NBC Sports, which says it ranks as the most-watched IndyCar race outside of the Indy 500 since the St. Petersburg season opener (1.223m TAD) The TAD was also up a healthy 179% over last year’s Detroit race at Belle Isle, which had a TAD of 394,000 when it was telecast on USA Network.

NBC Sports reports that through seven races, the 2023 IndyCar season is averaging a TAD of 1.835 million viewers, up 2% vs. 2022.

After its washout at Imola, Formula 1 returned to action with the Spanish Grand Prix and averaged 0.58/1.040m on ESPN’s live telecast, down fractionally from 2022’s edition which ran in May (0.59/1.146m).

The NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Portland on Saturday averaged 0.46/824,000 on FS1, down in rating but identical in viewers to 2022 (0.56/824K). Saturday’s Craftsman Truck Series race on FS1 at WWTR averaged 0.42/698,000, compared to 0.45/663K last year.

Last weekend’s 18-49 age demographic numbers (not including streaming) had F1 up front with 453,000 viewers, followed by NASCAR Cup (413K), IndyCar (177K) Xfinity (126K) and Trucks (124K).

Notre Dame football: 2023 home kickoff times announced

Mark your calendars…

Notre Dame’s home schedule for the 2023 football season has been known for some time but a few details remained. Such as: what time is kickoff and which game will be aired on Peacock this year instead of NBC?

We have that information as it was released on Wednesday afternoon. Notre Dame is the home team for their trip to Dublin, Ireland the last Saturday in August in a game that will be aired on NBC. That is the first of seven games where Notre Dame will serve as the home team and will be aired on NBC’s family of networks.

Below are the games and times for each of the contests on NBC this fall:

TV ratings: Talladega

NASCAR once again had the motorsports TV plate largely to itself last weekend for stock car racing’s return to the high banks of Talladega Superspeedway, and enjoyed its strongest audience figures since Daytona. Sunday’s Cup Series race on FOX …

Sunday’s Cup Series race on FOX averaged a 2.58 Nielsen rating and 4.554 million viewers, per numbers from ShowBuzzDaily.com, with 774,000 in the 18-49 age demographic. That was down fractionally from last year’s 2.61/4.682m but more than doubled the audience from last week at Martinsville on FS1 and substantially bettered the 1.88/3.450m for the previous week’s Bristol round on FOX.

The Xfinity Series race from Talladega on Saturday averaged 0.78/1.309m on FS1, down from a 1.29/2.061m when it aired on FOX last year, but up from from the 0.52/894,000 for last week’s Martinsville round, also on FS1.

ARCA Menards Series racing from Talladega led into the Xfinity race on FS1, and averaged 0.34/522,000, little changed from last year’s 0.33/532K.

TV ratings: Bristol dirt

NASCAR had the TV pretty much to itself over Easter weekend, but it didn’t make much difference to the year’s overall trends. The Cup Series dirt race from Bristol averaged a 1.88 Nielsen rating and 3.450 million viewers Sunday evening on FOX, per …

NASCAR had the TV pretty much to itself over Easter weekend, but it didn’t make much difference to the year’s overall trends.

The Cup Series dirt race from Bristol averaged a 1.88 Nielsen rating and 3.450 million viewers Sunday evening on FOX, per numbers from ShowBuzzDaily.com. That was down from a 2.19/4.007m for this race last year, although up fractionally from the most recent Cup race on FOX (COTA, 1.81/3.129m).

The Craftsman Truck race on Bristol’s dirt Saturday night averaged 0.61/1.057m on FS1, down fractionally from 0.65/1.167m last year but a healthy increase from the 0.37/644,000 that watched the previous Saturday’s race from Texas, which lacked a NASCAR lead-in.

TV ratings: Australia, Pomona, Richmond, Texas

It was another busy weekend for racing on the tube, with F1, IndyCar, NASCAR and NHRA all among the series vying for viewers. The Richmond NASCAR Cup Series race marked the first cable-network telecast of the year for the series, and Sunday’s …

It was another busy weekend for racing on the tube, with F1, IndyCar, NASCAR and NHRA all among the series vying for viewers.

The Richmond NASCAR Cup Series race marked the first cable-network telecast of the year for the series, and Sunday’s coverage on FS1 averaged a 1.30 Nielsen rating and 2.303 million viewers, per numbers from ShowBuzzDaily.com. That was down from the previous week’s race at COTA on FOX (1.81/3.129m) and from this race last year, which aired on FOX (2.30/3.958m). The first 2022 race on FS1 to be run in a comparable Sunday timeslot without a rain postponement was Darlington in early May, which averaged a 1.45 rating and 2.614m viewers.

Saturday’s Xfinity Series race from Richmond on FS1 averaged 0.50/847,000 viewers, closer to last year’s 0.53/833K on the cable network.

The NTT IndyCar Series stayed on broadcast network NBC for its race at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, which averaged an 0.53 rating and 830,000 viewers. That was down from last year’s 0.62/954K, also on NBC.

NASCAR’s Craftsman Truck Series was supporting IndyCar at Texas this year and averaged 0.37/644,000 Saturday afternoon on FS1. That was down slightly from the previous week at COTA (0.43/697K).

NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series delayed coverage of the finals from Pomona faired much better on FS1 this week, likely due to it following directly from NASCAR’s Cup race. It averaged 0.36/597,000, up from the 0.20/324,000 for the previous week’s Phoenix finals on FS1 in the same timeslot.

Formula 1 faced its first significant airtime challenge of the year with the Australian Grand Prix. ESPN’s live coverage of the race that started at 1am ET averaged 0.30 and 556,000 viewers — curiously, less than ESPN’s coverage of the race’s qualifying session at the same time the previous day (0.36/605K) albeit only down slightly from 2022’s Australian GP (0.34/568,000) which also aired on ESPN. This year’s race was also replayed on ESPN2 at 9:30am, and garnered another 217,000 viewers.

Despite its late night/early morning obstacle, F1 continued to do well among the coveted 18-49 demographic, pulling in more than half its live viewership (324,000) from that age group. NASCAR had 457,000 18-49 viewers from its 2.3m total, followed by Xfinity at 187K, IndyCar at 178K, Trucks at 143K and NHRA at 130K.

TV ratings: NASCAR at COTA, NHRA at Phoenix

NASCAR’s first road race of the year may have featured a field bolstered by a pair of Formula 1 world champions and an IMSA ace, but it still took a year-on-year hit in TV audience. Last Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at COTA averaged a 1.81 …

NASCAR’s first road race of the year may have featured a field bolstered by a pair of Formula 1 world champions and an IMSA ace, but it still took a year-on-year hit in TV audience.

Last Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at COTA averaged a 1.81 Nielsen rating and 3.129 million household viewers on FOX, per numbers from ShowBuzzDaily.com. That is down from a 2.18/3.731m for last year’s race, and also below the previous week’s Atlanta round (1.95/3.422m).

The support series races at COTA were also down in viewers, although by smaller margins. Saturday’s Xfinity Series race averaged 0.52/815,000 on FS1 compared to 0.64/1.075m last year, while the Craftsman Truck Series race that preceded it on FS1 averaged 0.43 and 697,000 viewers vs 0.42/719K in 2022.

The NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series averaged 0.20/324,000 for coverage of its Phoenix finals Sunday evening on FS1. That’s down from last February’s Phoenix finals that aired on FS1 in the same time slot (0.24/401K).