Long the power conference in the NFL, the NFC completed a soft season in the ratings with a multi-year low for its championship game.
Sunday’s Commanders-Eagles NFC Championship Game averaged 44.2 million viewers across the Fox Sports family of networks, marking the least-watched NFL conference title game since Bills-Chiefs on CBS in 2021 (42.8M) and the least-watched NFC title game since Packers-49ers in 2020, the last year before Nielsen began including out-of-home data in its viewership estimates (42.5M on FOX, 43.9M across all Fox platforms).
Overall, it was the third-least watched NFC Championship Game on FOX since 2013 — ahead of only Packers-49ers in ’20 and Vikings-Eagles in 2018 (42.3M on FOX, 42.8M across all Fox platforms).
The Eagles’ easy win, which peaked with 50.4 million viewers in the 5:30 PM ET quarter-hour, declined more than 20% from both of last year’s title games — Lions-49ers in the NFC, which aired in the late window (56.3M) and Chiefs-Ravens in the AFC, which aired in the early window on CBS (55.5M).
All six NFC games this postseason declined from last year, with four of those down by double-digits. By comparison, only three of six AFC games declined, one by double-digits.
The downward trend for the NFC playoffs comes on the heels of NFC-affiliated FOX having its least-watched regular season in four years, not coincidentally since the last time the Cowboys failed to make the playoffs.
