Recent sports TV ratings news, including college football on ESPN and ESPN2 and the UFL on Versus.
- Saturday’s Arkansas/Mississippi State game drew a 2.0 U.S. rating and 3.209 million viewers on ESPN. Comparisons to last year were unavailable; the game was down 20% and 26%, respectively, from the previous week (SC/FLA: 2.5, 4.351 mil). Earlier in the day, Virginia Tech/Miami earned a 1.5 and 2.073 million. As reported earlier, the Noon ET Wisconsin/Michigan game drew a 2.8 and 4.019 million.
- Over on ESPN2, Saturday night’s Oklahoma/Baylor game earned just a 0.6 U.S. rating and 954,000 viewers, down 50% and 59%, respectively, from the previous week (MISS ST/ALA: 1.2, 2.343 mil). The network’s Noon ET Pittsburgh/USF game drew a 0.5 and 750,000, down 38% and 31%, respectively, from the game a week earlier (IND/WISC: 0.8, 1.087 mil).
- Saturday’s Locomotives/Colonials UFL game, the final game of the regular season, drew just 38,000 viewers on Versus. The game lost 74% of the lead-in from the Yale/Harvard college football game that preceded it (148,000), and trailed the Wisconsin/UNLV college basketball game that followed (179,000) by 79%.
