Ratings and viewership inched up for ESPN’s College Gameday this season. In other news, the College Football Awards sank by double-digits, and the FCS quarterfinals put up mixed numbers last weekend.
ESPN Posts Gains For College Gameday
- ESPN’s College Gameday averaged a 1.4 rating and 2.0 million viewers this season, up a tick in ratings and 5% in viewership from last year (1.3, 1.9M) and up a tick and 7%, respectively, from 2013 (1.3, 1.8M). Those figures do not include the season finale from the Army/Navy game either this year or last. The most watched episode was in Week 13, when the show traveled to the site of Oklahoma/Oklahoma State (2.3M). (via ESPN Media Zone)
CFB Awards Show Down Double-Digits
- Last Thursday’s College Football Awards scored 675,000 viewers on ESPN, down 20% from last year (838K) and down 19% from 2013 (833K). The double-digit drop is in addition to a slight decline for the Heisman Trophy Presentation two nights later. (via ShowBuzz Daily)
FCS Quarterfinals Mixed on ESPN, ESPN2
- Saturday’s Northern Iowa/North Dakota State FCS playoff quarterfinal drew 1.6 million viewers on ESPN, up 14% from Coastal Carolina/NDSU last year (1.4M) and up 9% from the same Coastal Carolina/NDSU matchup in 2013 (1.5M). The previous night, Charleston Southern/Jacksonville State scored 546,000 on ESPN2 — down 19% from Chattanooga/New Hampshire last year (675K) and down 5% from Towson/Eastern Illinois in 2013 (572K). (via ShowBuzz Daily [1], [2])
