ABC earned the week’s top college football rating for regional action featuring the nation’s #1 team.
Regional college football action featuring Florida State/N.C. State in 72% of markets drew a 3.5 final rating and 5.5 million viewers on ABC last Saturday, up 84% in ratings and 88% in viewership from regional coverage last year (1.9, 2.9M) and up 6% and 10%, respectively, from Ohio State/Michigan State in 2012 (3.3, 5.0M).
The telecast ranked as the highest rated and most-viewed college football window of the week. The top three telecasts of week four were afternoon games, and an afternoon window has topped the charts in every week of the season.
ESPN2’s ‘reverse mirror’ coverage (Minnesota/Michigan in markets that received FSU/N.C. State and vice versa) drew a 0.6 and 933,000 viewers.
The Notre Dame/Syracuse Saturday Night Football game drew a 2.6 and 4.1 million viewers, down 35% in ratings and 40% in viewership from Wisconsin/Ohio State last year (4.0, 6.8M) and down 4% and 5%, respectively, from Wisconsin/Nebraska in 2012 (2.7, 4.3M).
CORRECTION 10/3: The original version of this post mistakenly compared last week’s games to last year’s week four doubleheader.
(ABC numbers from Nielsen; ESPN2 numbers from Awful Announcing)
