Those Miami/FSU games are on the espn list because they were played on a night with no other college football on football's opening weekend. Its the same reason Va Tech/Booze is #1. Its not an accurate depiction or their television audience
http://www.bcsfootball.org/news/story?id=4819384Only see 1 crappy rated UM bowl game on that list and 4 of the top 31 rated bowl games of BCS era. Only see FSU, tOSU, USC, and OU on that list more times (Mich also 4).
http://www.barkingcarnival.com/2009/12/29/collge-football-tv-ratings-increase/Scroll down to sept 25th. UM/VaTech destroyed Ark/Bama head to head in 09.
http://www.bcinterruption.com/2011/12/16/2638956/2011-college-football-tv-ratings-abc-boston-college-miami-usc-oregon-oklahoma-baylorOnly negative rating article I could find on UM, but come on, BC?
Now Clemson? Go back to the first BCS bowl ratings link.
2011 - 2nd lowest rated Meineke bowl of 6 listed
2010 - lowest rated Music City bowl of 6 listed
2009 - 2nd highest rated Gator bowl of 9
2008 - 2nd highest rated Chick-fil-A bowl of 6 (would be 9 counting the previous 3 Peach bowls)
2007 - 2nd lowest rated Music City bowl of 6
2006 - 2nd lowest rated of 7 Champs bowls
2004 - lowest Peach of 3 listed (would have been 2nd lowest of 9 Peach/Chick bowls combined)
To be fair we'll do UM's bowls on that list:
2011 - 4th rated Sun bowl of 8 listed
2010 - 2nd highest rated Champs bowl of 7
2009 - 2nd highest rated Emerald bowl of 6
2007 - lowest of 3 MPC Computers bowls listed
2006 - highest rated Chick-fil-A/Peach bowl of 9
2005 - 3rd highest rated Chick/Peach bowl of 9
2004 - t-3rd highest rated Orange bowl of 9 (one of the higher rated was nat. champ Orange game)
2003 - Drew 17.2 in Nat Champ game v. tOSU. 6th highest rated bowl overall since 1998.