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Overnight Ratings: OU-FSU Leads Weekend College Football; BMW Championship Down
Published September 19, 2011
ABC's Oklahoma-Florida State telecast on Saturday night led all college football games over the weekend with a 6.1 overnight Nielsen rating. The same window last year featured regional coverage that earned a 4.9 overnight. The net also earned a 2.9 overnight for regional coverage in the 3:30pm ET window, up 11.5% from last year. ESPN earned a 2.7 overnight for Ohio State-Miami, also on Saturday night. That overnight is flat compared to Clemson-Auburn in the same window last year. CBS began its coverage of SEC football with Tennessee-Florida earning a 3.0 overnight, down 14.3% from the same matchup last year. Fox aired the first-ever EPL match on U.S. broadcast TV on Sunday afternoon, with the tape-delayed Chelsea-Manchester United match earning a 1.2 overnight rating. The game drew a 0.4 overnight live on Fox Soccer. NBC earned a 1.0 overnight yesterday for Justin Rose's two-shot win at the PGA Tour BMW Championship, down 37.5% from Dustin Johnson's win last year and down 60% from Tiger Woods' win in '09.
Listed below are overnight Nielsen ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
| NCAA Football: Auburn-Clemson |
9/17
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
3.2
|
| NCAA Football: (regional) |
9/17
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
2.9
|
| NCAA Football: Oklahoma-Florida State |
9/17
|
ABC
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
6.1
|
| Lucas Oil Off Road Pro2 & Pro4 (taped) |
9/17
|
CBS
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.3
|
| "CBS College Football 2011" |
9/17
|
CBS
|
2:30-3:00pm
|
0.3
|
| "College Football Today" |
9/17
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.7
|
| NCAA Football: Tennessee-Florida |
9/17
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
3.0
|
| MLB: (regional) |
9/17
|
Fox
|
4:00-7:00pm
|
1.7
|
| PGA Tour: BMW Championship: Third Round |
9/17
|
NBC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
0.8
|
| NCAA Football: Michigan State-Notre Dame |
9/17
|
NBC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
2.7
|
| "The NFL Today" |
9/18
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.5
|
| "NFL on CBS": (regional) |
9/18
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
10.0
|
| "NFL on CBS": Chargers-Patriots (74%) |
9/18
|
CBS
|
4:15-7:30pm
|
15.1
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
9/18
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.6
|
| "NFL on Fox": (single) |
9/18
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
13.6
|
| EPL: Chelsea-Manchester United (taped) |
9/18
|
Fox
|
4:30-6:30pm
|
1.2
|
| Golf: "Big Break 101" (taped) |
9/18
|
NBC
|
1:30-2:00pm
|
0.3
|
| PGA Tour: BMW Championship: Final Round |
9/18
|
NBC
|
2:00-6:00pm
|
1.0
|
| "Football Night in America" |
9/18
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
7.0
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Eagles-Falcons |
9/18
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:30pm
|
15.7
|




