ESPN’s Nebraska-Penn State telecast on Saturday earned a 3.8 overnight Nielsen rating, marking the net’s highest-rated college football game in the 12:00pm ET window on record (dating back to ’01). The previous season-high had been a 3.6 overnight for the Oct. 15 Michigan-Michigan State game. The Nebraska-PSU game topped CBS’ Florida-South Carolina (1.9 rating) and ABC’s regionalized coverage (1.6 rating) in the same window. ABC’s Oregon-Stanford game on Saturday night earned a 5.9 overnight, marking the highest-rated non-NFL sports telecast over the weekend. The game aired opposite the debut of “UFC on Fox,” NBC’s Maryland-Notre Dame football game and the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez PPV bout. ESPN also scored well with its North Carolina-Michigan State Quicken Loans Carrier Classic, averaging a 2.4 overnight on Friday. The net’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Kobalt Tools 500 from Phoenix Int’l Raceway earned a 2.7 overnight yesterday afternoon, up 12.5% from the same race last year.
Listed below are overnight Nielsen ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST | DATE | NET | TIME (ET) | RAT. |
| College Football: (regional) | 11/12 | ABC | 12:00-3:30pm | 1.6 |
| College Football: (regional) | 11/12 | ABC | 3:30-7:15pm | 3.5 |
| College Football: Oregon-Stanford | 11/12 | ABC | 8:00-11:45pm | 5.9 |
| College Football: Florida-South Carolina | 11/12 | CBS | 12:00-3:30pm | 1.9 |
| College Football: Auburn-Georgia | 11/12 | CBS | 3:30-7:00pm | 2.8 |
| "UFC on Fox": Junior Dos Santos d. Cain Velasquez | 11/12 | Fox | 9:00-10:00pm | 3.5 |
| "World of Adventure Sports" (taped) | 11/12 | NBC | 4:00-5:00pm | 0.4 |
| "Dew Tour Highlight Show" (taped) | 11/12 | NBC | 5:00-6:00pm | 0.5 |
| College Football: Maryland-Notre Dame | 11/12 | NBC | 7:30-11:00pm | 1.4 |
| "The NFL Today" | 11/13 | CBS | 12:00-1:00pm | 2.7 |
| "NFL on CBS": (single) | 11/13 | CBS | 1:00-4:05pm | 11.9 |
| "Courage in Sports Awards" (taped) | 11/13 | CBS | 5:00-6:00pm | 1.5 |
| "Fox NFL Sunday" | 11/13 | Fox | 12:00-1:00pm | 3.5 |
| "NFL on Fox": (regional) | 11/13 | Fox | 1:00-4:15pm | 9.1 |
| "NFL on Fox": Giants-49ers (70%) | 11/13 | Fox | 4:15-7:30pm | 17.2 |
| "The OT" | 11/13 | Fox | 7:30-8:00pm | 8.3 |
| Figure Skating: ISU Grand Prix (taped) | 11/13 | NBC | 2:00-4:00pm | 0.8 |
| Figure Skating: Fashion On Ice (taped) | 11/13 | NBC | 4:00-6:00pm | 1.1 |
| "Football Night In America" | 11/13 | NBC | 7:30-8:15pm | 5.3 |
| "Sunday Night Football": Patriots-Jets | 11/13 | NBC | 8:30-11:30pm | 14.5 |
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