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Overnight Ratings: CBS Scores With Texas A&M Upset Of Alabama On Saturday
Published November 12, 2012
CBS led all college football telecasts over the weekend with Texas A&M's upset of Alabama. The net earned a 6.6 overnight Nielsen rating for the Saturday afternoon matchup, marking the second-best overnight for any college football game on any net this season to date. The only game to score higher was CBS’ Alabama-LSU in primetime on Nov. 3 (7.0 rating). The Texas A&M-Alabama game peaked at a 9.8 rating from 7:00-7:15pm ET. Meanwhile, Oregon-Cal topped all games on cable TV over the weekend, with ESPN's late night Saturday telecast earning a 2.4 overnight. ESPN also earned a 2.4 overnight for the penultimate NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race yesterday, with the telecast from Phoenix down 8% from the same race last year.
The chart below lists overnight Nielsen ratings from sports telecasts over the weekend on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
| NCAA Football: (regional) |
11/10
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
1.5
|
| NCAA Football: (regional) |
11/10
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:15pm
|
2.0
|
| NCAA Football: Notre Dame-Boston College |
11/10
|
ABC
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
3.8
|
| NCAA Football: Arkansas-South Carolina |
11/10
|
CBS
|
12:00-3:45pm
|
1.7
|
| NCAA Football: Texas A&M-Alabama |
11/10
|
CBS
|
3:45-7:15pm
|
6.6
|
| NCAA Football:Oregon State-Stanford |
11/10
|
Fox
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
1.0
|
| NCAA Football: Kansas State-TCU |
11/10
|
Fox
|
7:00-10:00pm
|
1.9
|
| Red Bull Signature Series |
11/10
|
NBC
|
2:30-3:30pm
|
0.3
|
| Ironman (encore) |
11/10
|
NBC
|
3:30-5:00pm
|
0.4
|
| Notre Dame special |
11/10
|
NBC
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
0.5
|
| "The NFL Today" |
11/11
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.6
|
| "NFL on CBS": (single) |
11/11
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
10.5
|
| Courage in Sports Awards (taped) |
11/11
|
CBS
|
4:00-5:00pm
|
1.3
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
11/11
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.1
|
| "NFL on Fox": (regional) |
11/11
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
8.4
|
| "NFL on Fox": Cowboys-Eagles (85%) |
11/11
|
Fox
|
4:15-8:15pm
|
16.2
|
| Figure Skating: ISU Grand Prix (taped) |
11/11
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.8
|
| "Football Night in America" |
11/11
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
3.1
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Texans-Bears |
11/11
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:30pm
|
13.7
|
