CBS NFL Ratings, TCU-Oklahoma, Top Rank Boxing

CBS NFL ratings were not much to brag about in Week 10. In other news, TCU-Oklahoma got lost in the shuffle on FOX, and Top Rank Boxing scored a boost from Alabama.

CBS NFL Ratings Weak in Week 10

The Week 10 NFL singleheader delivered a 7.2 rating and 11.8 million viewers on CBS last Sunday, down 8% in ratings and 10% in viewership from last year (7.8, 13.2M) and down 38% and 40% respectively from 2015 on FOX (11.6, 19.6M).

It ranks as the lowest rated and least-watched singleheader since Week 1 (7.6, 13.3M). All-but-one singleheader this season has declined.

TCU-Oklahoma Lost in the Shuffle

Last Saturday’s TCU-Oklahoma college football game delivered a 1.8 rating and 3.0 million viewers on FOX, down 28% in ratings and 31% in viewership from USC-Washington last year (2.5, 4.3M) but up a tick and 6% respectively from Oregon-Stanford in 2015 (1.7, 2.8M).

The top-ten matchup ranked just seventh for the weekend among college football games. Head-to-head, it trailed both Notre Dame-Miami on ABC (3.9, 6.7M) and Alabama-Mississippi State on ESPN (3.9, 7.0M).

It was not even the day’s top game on Fox Sports, ranking a distant second behind Michigan State-Ohio State earlier in the day (2.4, 3.7M). In other action, FOX scored 1.6 million for USC-Stanford Saturday afternoon and FS1 earned 1.0 million for Stanford’s upset of Washington last Friday night. There were no comparable windows last year.

Bama Boosts Boxing

Airing immediately after the Alabama-Mississippi State college football game, Saturday’s Top Rank Boxing telecast on ESPN delivered a 0.9 rating and 1.5 million viewers — the second-largest boxing audience on cable this year, per SB Nation. ESPN’s Manny Pacquiao–Jeff Horn bout in July holds the top spot with 2.8 million.

Birmingham, presumably still basking in the glow of Alabama’s narrow win, was the top market with an 8.2 rating.

[Numbers via ShowBuzz Daily 11.14, SB Nation 11.14, ESPN PR 11.12]