NBC earned a 3.9 overnight Nielsen rating for Notre Dame’s OT win over Stanford in the 3:30pm ET window on Saturday, tops among all college football telecasts this weekend. Ranking second was ESPN with a 3.7 overnight for Saturday night’s South Carolina-LSU matchup. ABC also earned a 3.5 overnight for the Oklahoma-Texas matchup in the 12:00pm window. CBS’ declining SEC football numbers continued as Alabama-Missouri earned a 2.2 overnight in the 3:30pm window, down 21% from the comparable LSU-Tennessee last year. Saturday night’s slate of sports telecasts also featured the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Bank of America 500 on ABC. That race earned a 3.0 overnight, flat compared to last year.
The charts below list overnight Nielsen ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
| NCAA Football: Texas-Oklahoma |
10/12
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
3.5
|
| NCAA Football: (regional) |
10/12
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
3.0
|
| NASCAR Sprint Cup: Bank of America 500 (Charlotte) |
10/12
|
ABC
|
7:00-10:30pm
|
3.0
|
| "College Football Uncut -- Auburn" |
10/12
|
CBS
|
2:00-2:30pm
|
0.4
|
| "College Football Uncut -- South Carolina" |
10/12
|
CBS
|
2:30-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
| "College Football Today" |
10/12
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.6
|
| NCAA Football: Alabama-Missouri |
10/12
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
2.2
|
| "Fox College Saturday" |
10/12
|
Fox
|
2:30-3:00pm
|
0.5
|
| NCAA Football: Utah-UCLA |
10/12
|
Fox
|
3:00-6:30pm
|
0.8
|
| NCAA Football: USC-Washington |
10/12
|
Fox
|
7:00-10:30pm
|
1.8
|
| "Sports Illustrated" (taped) |
10/12
|
NBC
|
1:30-2:30pm
|
0.4
|
"Onward Notre Dame:
South Bend to Soldier Field" (taped) |
10/12
|
NBC
|
2:30-3:30pm
|
0.7
|
| NCAA Football: Stanford-Notre Dame |
10/12
|
NBC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
3.9
|
| "The NFL Today" |
10/13
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.3
|
| "NFL on CBS": (single) |
10/13
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
11.5
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
10/13
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.3
|
| "NFL on Fox": (regional) |
10/13
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
11.5
|
| "NFL on Fox": Giants-49ers (77%) |
10/13
|
Fox
|
4:15-7:30pm
|
16.1
|
| NLCS: Cardinals-Giants: Game 1 |
10/13
|
Fox
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
4.7
|
| World of Adventure Sports (taped) |
10/13
|
NBC
|
2:30-3:30pm
|
0.3
|
| Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions (taped) |
10/13
|
NBC
|
3:30-4:30pm
|
0.6
|
| PBR: Cooper Tires Invitational (taped) |
10/13
|
NBC
|
4:30-6:00pm
|
0.7
|
| "Football Night in America" |
10/13
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
4.2
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Packers-Texans |
10/13
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:30pm
|
12.6
|
