From the department of redundancy department, ABC and the Big Ten topped the college football ratings charts last weekend.
Michigan-Penn State earned a 3.9 rating and 7.0 million viewers on ABC’s Saturday Night Football last weekend, flat in ratings and up 7% in viewership from Ohio State-Penn State last year (3.9, 6.5M) and up 30% and 31% respectively from Ohio State-Rutgers in 2015.
The Nittany Lions’ blowout win, which had 7.1 million with streaming included, was the most-watched college football game of the weekend. ABC has now topped the charts in seven of eight weeks this season, and the Big Ten has topped the charts in four of five.
For the season, it ranks fourth for the season behind Michigan-Florida in week one (7.7M), Oklahoma-Ohio State in week two (8.1M) and Florida State-Alabama in week one (12.3M).
Head-to-head, Saturday’s game more-than-doubled USC-Notre Dame on NBC (1.8, 3.0M), to say nothing of Kansas-TCU on FOX (0.7, 1.2M). As should be no surprise, it was no match for the Yankees-Astros MLB ALCS Game 7 on FS1 (5.4, 9.9M).
Earlier in the day, ABC earned a 2.5 (+56%) and 3.8 million (+61%) for Oklahoma State-Texas and a 2.2 (+16%) and 3.50 million (+10%) for Indiana-Michigan State. Those games had 3.9 and 3.55 million, respectively, with streaming included.
The full week’s college football ratings are here.
[Wknd. numbers from ESPN, ShowBuzz Daily 10.24]
