A thriller between Notre Dame and Stanford could not match last year’s comparable game, which aired in primetime.
Last Saturday’s Stanford/Notre Dame college football game drew a 2.2 final rating and 3.4 million viewers on NBC, down a tick in ratings and 8% in viewership from Arizona State/Notre Dame in primetime last year (2.3, 3.7M) and down 33% and 35%, respectively, from Stanford/Notre Dame in 2012 (3.3, 5.2M).
All four Notre Dame telecasts on NBC have declined from last year.
Notre Dame’s overtime win aired in a particularly crowded timeslot, facing Mississippi’s upset of Alabama on CBS (3.7, 5.9M), defending champion Florida State on ABC (2.3, 3.6M) and TCU’s upset of Oklahoma on FOX (1.3, 2.2M).
(Sat. numbers from Nielsen)
