NBC’s Notre Dame ratings are on the rise; Georgia-South Carolina scored a big jump on CBS; UCLA-Oklahoma topped last week’s Fox Sports slate.
NBC’s Notre Dame Viewership Up Big Through Two Games
Last Saturday’s Ball State-Notre Dame college football game had a 1.6 rating and 2.45 million viewers on NBC, down a third in ratings and 40% in viewership from the team’s second game last season, a primetime game against Georgia (2.4, 4.09M).
Versus Notre Dame’s first afternoon game last season, against Temple in week one, ratings increased 60% (from 1.0) and viewership 55% (from 1.58M).
NBC’s two-game average of 4.84 million viewers (including streaming) is up 65% from last year (2.92M) and the network’s highest at this point of the season since 2010 (5.36M).
Big Jump For SEC on CBS
Georgia-South Carolina scored a 2.3 rating and 3.75 million viewers on the SEC on CBS last Saturday, up 53% in ratings and 60% in viewership from last year (TCU-Arkansas: 1.5, 2.35M) and up 44% and 49% respectively from 2016 (Kentucky-Florida: 1.6, 2.52M).
The Bulldogs’ easy win delivered the second-largest college football audience of the weekend, behind Clemson-Texas A&M on ESPN later in the night (2.6, 4.49M).
UCLA-Oklahoma Tops FOX Slate
FOX scored a 1.8 rating and 2.90 million viewers for last Saturday’s UCLA-Oklahoma college football game, its highest rated and most-watched game of the young season. There was no comparable window last year.
Later in the day, the network’s Iowa State-Iowa game had a 1.2 (-20%) and 2.02 million (-22%) and its USC-Stanford nightcap earned a 1.4 (+17%) and 2.29 million (+11%).
Over on FS1, Western Michigan-Michigan led the weekend slate with a 0.6 and 914,000 (+282%).
