Thanksgiving week produced a viewership feast, including the four largest audiences of the NFL season and decade-plus highs for college football and basketball.
The NFL scored its four largest audiences of the season over the week ending November 26, scoring 41.76 million for Commanders-Cowboys and 33.70 million for Packers-Lions on Thanksgiving, 30.90 million for Sunday’s national window on CBS (mostly Bills-Eagles) and 28.96 million for Eagles-Chiefs on November 20. In the college game, Ohio State-Michigan delivered 19.65 million, the largest audience of the season and most-watched regular season window since 2011.
The good times extended beyond the gridiron as the Michigan State-Arizona men’s college basketball game delivered 5.3 million immediately following Packers-Lions on Thanksgiving Day, the largest college basketball regular season audience since 2008.
Weekly sports ratings, November 20-26
Only events with at least 100,000 viewers are listed. Household ratings of 0.55 or below are shown to the second decimal point.
Sunday, November 26
Saturday, November 25
Tuesday, November 21 – Friday, November 24
Full charts for Tuesday, November 21 through Friday, November 24 were included in the daily ratings posts for those respective dates, which are linked below:
— NFL’s Black Friday debut is lowest rated Amazon game of season
— Thanksgiving (11/23) sports ratings: NFL, college hoops, Egg Bowl hit highs
— Wednesday (11/22) sports ratings: Big gains for NBA, Maui, NHL
— Tuesday (11/21) sports ratings: El Tri tops night, plus NBA, Maui
Monday, November 20
