This season, the college football world has been openly obsessed with television ratings. The success of Deion Sanders in his first year at Colorado has been measured just as much by the Buffaloes’ incredible viewer numbers as by their performance on the field. Florida State is tweeting out that it has the highest ratings in its conference. Pat McAfee has repeatedly insulted Washington State, about to be left behind in the latest round of conference realignment, for the crime of not being popular or important enough to be worth his time.
We have a word for the attitude that popularity is the same as merit: poptimism.
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