Weekly sports ratings: Quieter week for pro, college football

The NFL had another quiet Sunday by its standards, but still dominated the rest of television.

For the first time all season, no NFL game cracked the 21 million viewer mark last week. (The Week 11 Monday Night Football game — Eagles-Chiefs in a Super Bowl rematch — will count toward next week’s figures.) Not counting Week 1, when CBS and FOX cannibalize each other with competing doubleheaders, the NFL national window was the least-watched all season as just shy of 21 million watched coverage featuring Jets-Bills on CBS. The previous low was set the previous week, when 21.7 million watched coverage featuring Giants-Cowboys on FOX.

For the full list of NFL ratings this season, see this page.

It was a quiet week in the college ranks as well, as no game cracked the six million viewer mark. Georgia-Tennessee topped the charts with 5.73 million on CBS. The full list of week twelve college football ratings is available here.

The top non-football sportscast was a NASCAR Race Hub special on Kevin Harvick that aired immediately following FOX NFL singleheader coverage. The special averaged 2.05 million, marking the largest audience in the post-singleheader window this year.

The top non-football live sporting event was a Celtics-Sixers NBA game on ESPN last Wednesday with 1.85 million.

Weekly sports ratings, November 13-19

Only events with at least 150,000 viewers are listed. Household ratings of 0.55 or below are shown to the second decimal point.

Sunday, November 19

While both games of the CBS doubleheader declined, both Sunday Night Football on NBC and the FOX singleheader posted increases over last year.

Saturday, November 18

Big Ten Network scored its largest audience on record as 2.02 million watched Ohio State-Minnesota on Saturday, and The CW delivered its top college football audience as 1.33 million tuned into South Alabama-Florida State.