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Overnight Ratings: ABC's "Saturday Night Football" Leads Weekend College Telecasts
Published November 21, 2011
ABC led all college football telecasts this weekend with a 5.8 overnight Nielsen rating for regional coverage in its "Saturday Night Football" slot, which featured Baylor's upset of Oklahoma and USC's upset of Oregon. ESPN's Nebraska-Michigan earned a 2.9 overnight in the 12:00pm ET window on Saturday, marking the highest-rated college game on cable for the weekend. Listed below are overnight Nielsen ratings for sports telecasts on broadcast TV over the weekend (Austin Karp, THE DAILY).
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
| "College Football Countdown" |
11/19
|
ABC
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
1.0
|
| NCAA Football: (regional) |
11/19
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
4.2
|
| NCAA Football: (regional) |
11/19
|
ABC
|
8:00pm-12:00am
|
5.8
|
| Epic Poker: Eight-Max Main Event |
11/19
|
CBS
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.5
|
| "College Football Today" |
11/19
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.6
|
| NCAA: Mississippi State-Arkansas |
11/19
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
1.6
|
| Golf: Presidents Cup: Day Three (taped) |
11/19
|
NBC
|
8:00am-4:00pm
|
1.1
|
| NCAA Football: Boston College-Notre Dame |
11/19
|
NBC
|
4:00-7:45pm
|
1.8
|
| "The NFL Today" |
11/20
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.3
|
| "NFL on CBS": (regional) |
11/20
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
8.4
|
| "NFL on CBS": Chargers-Bears (79%) |
11/20
|
CBS
|
4:15-7:30pm
|
14.2
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
11/20
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.1
|
| "NFL on Fox": (single) |
11/20
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
12.7
|
| EPL: Chelsea-Liverpool (taped) |
11/20
|
Fox
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
1.5
|
| Golf: Presidents Cup: Day Four (taped) |
11/20
|
NBC
|
12:00-6:00pm
|
1.1
|
| "Football Night In America" |
11/20
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
5.9
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Eagles-Giants |
11/20
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:30pm
|
14.0
|
