The Television and Social Media numbers are in for Bowl Season and the Oregon Ducks Alamo Bowl game vs TCU ranks in the Top 5 for television viewers and twitter reads.
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The Oregon Ducks Alamo Bowl Appearance against TCU appeared at first to be among the 2015 Bowl Season Blowout games. At the end of the first half, the 9-4 team out of the Pac-12 had a 31-0 lead, but the Horned Frogs saw opportunity with Oregon Starting Quarterback Vernon Adams out of the game to come back to win the game. Fans across the country talked about the comeback as it happened and why Jeff Lockie was playing as he could not lead the Offense in the second half. As a result the game was the highest ranked non-New Yearโs Day Bowl Twitter TV Rating according to SportsBusinessDaily.
For Oregon and TCU, over 5.7 million people saw a total of 420,000 tweets. The total led the Pac-12 Conference for Bowl season. Stanford and Iowa met in the Rose Bowl and just 315,000 Tweets were seen during the blowout in Pasadena that saw Christian McCaffrey run rampant in all phases of the games against the Hawkeyes. Over the last several years the Oregon Ducks have been at the top of the Social Media game for every sport for the last several years.
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For many Oregon Ducks fans the daily visit to the Twitter hashtag #GoDucks keeps fans up to date on the lastest with their team. Oregon finished the 2015 season with a 9-4 record and will return several key players on Offense next season including Running Back Royce Freeman and Wide Receiver Darren Carrington.