Ratings just keep rising the Army/Navy game.
Saturday’s Army/Navy college football game earned a 5.6 overnight rating on CBS, up 10% from last year (5.1), up 24% from 2014 (4.5) and the highest for the rivalry since 1994 (6.5).
Since moving to the week after college football’s conference championship games in 2009, Army/Navy has hit at least a 10-year high in the overnights five times — in 2009 (10-year high), 2013 (14-year high), 2014 (15-year high), 2015 (19-year high) and this year (22-year high).
Overall, overnights for the game have now risen in each of the past six years and seven of the past eight.
Army’s upset win, which peaked at a 6.9 from 6-6:30 PM ET, tied the sixth-highest college football overnight of the season on any network. Keep in mind that it was one of just three games to air completely unopposed, along with Notre Dame/Texas on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend (7.0) and Florida State/Mississippi on Labor Day (5.3).
Five of the season’s ten highest rated games in the metered markets aired on CBS, more than any other network.
(Sat. numbers from CBS)