Ratings for the Florida/Georgia rivalry tied the lowest mark in more than a decade.
Last Saturday’s Florida/Georgia college football game drew a 3.1 final rating and 5.0 million viewers on CBS, flat in ratings and up a fraction of a percent in viewership (5.02M to 5.00M) from Mississippi State/Kentucky last year, and up 19% and 24%, respectively, from Tennessee/Alabama in 2013 (2.6, 4.0M).
Compared to last year’s game between the rivals, which took place on week later in the season, ratings dropped 16% and viewership 12% from a 3.7 and 5.7 million. The 3.1 rating is tied with 2013 as the lowest for the Florida/Georgia rivalry since 2004 (2.9). The teams have played on CBS in each of the past 13 seasons.
For the week, Florida’s blowout win trailed only Notre Dame/Temple on ABC (3.9, 5.7M) as the highest rated and most-watched college football telecast on any network. CBS has now failed to top the charts in seven of nine weeks this season, after having done so nine times in 13 tries last year.
(Sat. numbers via Sports Business Daily)
