The Jets’ upset of the Eagles dominated the week on television.
The NFL national window on FOX (mostly Eagles-Jets) averaged more than 26 million viewers, the largest Nielsen-measured audience of the season and nearly ten million more viewers than any other television program last week. NBC’s Sunday Night Football ranked a very distant second with 16.71 million, a season-low. For more NFL ratings, see the linked page.
Shifting to the college game, Washington’s narrow win over Oregon topped the charts with just over seven million viewers, followed not far behind by USC-Notre Dame at 6.43 million. More college football ratings are available here.
The week’s top non-football audience was 7.02 million for Game 1 of the Rangers-Astros ALCS, which aired immediately following the NFL on FOX Sunday night. The Rangers’ win delivered the largest LCS Game 1 audience since Dodgers-Cubs in 2016 (7.31M).
Weekly sports ratings, October 9-15
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, October 15
In addition to the season-high audience, the FOX national window was the most-watched Week 6 NFL telecast since 2016.
Saturday, October 14
Oregon-Washington was the 11th college football game to crack the seven million viewer mark this season, one more than last year’s regular season.
Friday, October 13
Colorado’s loss to Stanford was the most-watched Friday night game of the season, but the least-watched Buffaloes game of the Deion Sanders era.
Thursday, October 12
Thursday Night Football scored its biggest increase of the season.
Wednesday, October 11
Braves-Phillies was easily the most-watched of the four Division Series, but Game 3 was the only one of the series to rank as the most-watched sportscast of the day.
Tuesday, October 10
Broadcast television’s first MLB Postseason doubleheader in 17 years topped the viewership charts last Tuesday.
Monday, October 9
Additional ABC simulcasts continue to boost ESPN’s Monday Night Football viewership.
