ABC earned a 3.1 overnight rating for Saturday night’s Notre Dame-Purdue matchup, down slightly from a 3.2 overnight for the comparable Notre Dame-Michigan State game last year. The net also earned a 2.2 overnight for Tennessee-Oregon in the 3:30pm ET window, which went up against CBS’ Alabama-Texas A&M. ESPN’s top college football rating for the weekend was a 1.7 overnight for Wisconsin-Arizona State in the late night window. ESPN/ESPN2 earned a 1.6 overnight for a rain-delayed Geico 400 from Chicagoland Speedway -- the first race in NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup. The race aired from 3:15-6:00pm on ESPN and then from 10:00-pm-1:15am on ESPN2.
The chart below lists overnight Nielsen ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
| College Football: UCLA-Nebraska |
9/13
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
2.7
|
| College Football: Tennessee-Oregon |
9/13
|
ABC
|
3:30-6:45pm
|
2.2
|
| College Football: Notre Dame-Purdue |
9/13
|
ABC
|
8:00-11:45pm
|
3.1
|
| Lucas Oil Off Road Racing |
9/13
|
CBS
|
1:30-2:30pm
|
0.3
|
| "College Football Special" |
9/13
|
CBS
|
2:30-3:00pm
|
0.7
|
| "College Football Today" |
9/13
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
2.1
|
| College Football: Alabama-Texas A&M |
9/13
|
CBS
|
3:30-6:00pm
|
9.0
|
| MLB: (regional) |
9/13
|
Fox
|
12:30-4:00pm
|
1.6
|
| College Football: Ohio State-Cal |
9/13
|
Fox
|
7:30-10:15pm
|
2.4
|
| EPL: Everton-Chelsea |
9/13
|
NBC
|
12:30-3:00pm
|
0.7
|
| PGA Tour: BMW Championship: Third Round |
9/13
|
NBC
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
1.7
|
| "The NFL Today" |
9/14
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.6
|
| "NFL on CBS": (regional) |
9/14
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
10.7
|
| "NFL on CBS": Broncos-Giants (89%) |
9/14
|
CBS
|
4:15-7:30pm
|
17.8
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
9/14
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.5
|
| "NFL on Fox": (single) |
9/14
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
12.8
|
| "Fox Sports 1 on 1: Adrian Peterson" |
9/14
|
Fox
|
4:30-5:30pm
|
2.0
|
| LPGA: Evian Championship: Final Round |
9/14
|
NBC
|
12:00-1:30pm
|
0.8
|
| PGA Tour: BMW Championship: Final Round* |
9/14
|
NBC
|
1:30-6:00pm
|
0.9
|
| "Football Night in America" |
9/14
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
4.8
|
| "Sunday Night Football": 49ers-Seahawks** |
9/14
|
NBC
|
8:30pm-12:30am
|
13.6
|
| |
|
|
|
|
NOTES: * = Final round concluded on Monday on Golf Channel due to weather delays. ** = Game had a one-hour weather delay during first quarter. Air times were 8:30-9:00pm and 10:00-12:15am ET
