NBC earned a 1.2 overnight Nielsen rating for its Navy-Notre Dame football telecast on Saturday. It is tied with the Air Force-Notre Dame game on Oct. 8 for the lowest Notre Dame football overnight ever on NBC. ABC led all weekend college football with a 5.4 overnight for its regionalized "Saturday Night Football," which featured Stanford's triple OT win over USC and Georgia Tech's upset win over Clemson. That rating is up slightly from a 5.3 overnight for regionalized coverage in the window last year. CBS' Georgia-Florida earned a 3.6 overnight, up slightly from a 3.5 rating for the game last year. The chart below lists overnight Nielsen ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST | DATE | NET | TIME (ET) | RAT. |
| "College Football Countdown" | 10/29 | ABC | 3:00-3:30pm | 0.8 |
| College Football: (regional) | 10/29 | ABC | 3:30-7:00pm | 2.6 |
| College Football: (regional) | 10/29 | ABC | 8:00-11:30pm | 5.4 |
| "College Football 2011" | 10/29 | CBS | 2:30-3:00pm | 0.6 |
| "College Football Today" | 10/29 | CBS | 3:00-3:30pm | 0.9 |
| College Football: Georgia-Florida | 10/29 | CBS | 3:30-7:00pm | 3.6 |
| College Football: Notre Dame-Navy | 10/29 | NBC | 3:30-7:00pm | 1.2 |
| "The NFL Today" | 10/30 | CBS | 12:00-1:00pm | 2.5 |
| "NFL on CBS": (regional) | 10/30 | CBS | 1:00-4:15pm | 10.7 |
| "NFL on CBS": Patriots-Steelers (85%) | 10/30 | CBS | 4:15-7:30pm | 16.2 |
| "Fox NFL Sunday" | 10/30 | Fox | 12:00-1:00pm | 3.3 |
| "NFL on Fox": (single) | 10/30 | Fox | 1:00-4:05pm | 11.6 |
| "UFC Primetime" (preview show) | 10/30 | Fox | 5:00-6:00pm | 1.7 |
| PBR Finals (taped) | 10/30 | NBC | 4:00-6:00pm | 0.8 |
| "Football Night in America" | 10/30 | NBC | 7:30-8:15pm | 6.7 |
| "Sunday Night Football": Cowboys-Eagles | 10/30 | NBC | 8:30-11:30pm | 14.7 |
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NOTE: * = Local ratings for N.Y., Boston, Philadelphia and Hartford excluded due to snow on Saturday.
