A top 25 thriller delivered good numbers for the SEC on CBS last weekend.
LSU-Auburn scored a 3.5 rating and 5.94 million viewers on the SEC on CBS last weekend, up 9% in ratings and 16% in viewership from last year (Tennessee-Florida: 3.2, 5.13M) but down 30% and 27% respectively from 2016 (Alabama-Mississippi: 5.0, 8.17M).
Compared to the teams’ meeting last season, which aired in October on CBS, ratings increased 52% (from 2.3) and viewership 65% (from 3.6 million).
LSU’s narrow victory ranks as the highest rated and most-watched afternoon game so far this season, topping Washington-Auburn on ABC in week one (3.2, 5.25M).
Regardless of window, it ranks fourth among all college football games through the first three weeks — behind Ohio State-TCU on ABC later that night (4.2, 7.23M), Michigan-Notre Dame on NBC in week one (4.0, 7.09M) and Miami-LSU on ABC in week one (3.8, 6.55M).
CBS SEC ratings have now increased in back-to-back weeks; the previous week’s Georgia-South Carolina game increased by more than 50 percent.
The full week three college football ratings chart is available here.
[Numbers from Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily 9.18]
