Overnight ratings for college football games were led by two blowouts this past weekend. ESPN earned a 2.8 overnight for Oregon’s 42-14 win over UCLA from 7:15-10:15pm ET on Saturday, while CBS earned the same number for Alabama’s 45-10 win over Tennessee from 3:30-6:45pm. ABC drew a 2.6 overnight for Penn State-Ohio State in primetime, matching the rating that Fox got for Texas Tech-Oklahoma from 4:45-7:30pm. Fox was forced to move the end of that game to Fox News in order to begin World Series Game 3. Texas Tech-Oklahoma had been delayed over an hour due to lightning. Meanwhile, ESPN drew a 2.3 overnight for yesterday afternoon’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race from Martinsville Speedway, up slightly from a 2.2 rating for the race last year.
Listed below are overnight ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
| "College Football Countdown" |
10/26
|
ABC
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.6
|
| College Football: (regional) |
10/26
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
2.0
|
| College Football: Penn State-Ohio State |
10/26
|
ABC
|
8:00-11:45pm
|
2.6
|
| "College Football Open Season" |
10/26
|
CBS
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.5
|
| "College Football Today" |
10/26
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
1.0
|
| College Football: Tennessee-Alabama |
10/26
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
2.8
|
| College Football: Texas Tech-Oklahoma |
10/26
|
Fox
|
4:45-7:30pm*
|
2.6
|
| World Series: Red Sox-Cardinals: Game 3 |
10/26
|
Fox
|
8:00pm-12:15am
|
8.7
|
| World of Adventure Sports |
10/26
|
NBC
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
| Dew Tour recap |
10/26
|
NBC
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
0.4
|
| Red Bull Signature Series: Vans U.S. Open of Snowboarding |
10/26
|
NBC
|
4:00-5:00pm
|
0.4
|
| Red Bull Signature Series: King of the Peak |
10/26
|
NBC
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
0.6
|
| X Games (repeat) |
10/27
|
Fox
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
0.5
|
| "The NFL Today" |
10/27
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.5
|
| "NFL on CBS": (single) |
10/27
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
10.1
|
| "Golf's Best Of 2013" |
10/27
|
CBS
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
1.1
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
10/27
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.4
|
| "NFL on Fox": (regional) |
10/27
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
10.9
|
| "NFL on Fox": Redskins-Broncos (88%) |
10/27
|
Fox
|
4:15-7:30pm
|
17.5
|
| World Series: Red Sox-Cardinals: Game 4 |
10/27
|
Fox
|
8:15pm-12:00am
|
10.5
|
| MLS: DC United-Dynamo |
10/27
|
NBC
|
1:30-4:00pm
|
0.3
|
| ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating |
10/27
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.9
|
| "Football Night in America" |
10/27
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
4.2
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Packers-Vikings |
10/27
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:06pm**
|
10.3
|
| |
|
|
|
|
NOTES: * = Game began late to due lightning delay. Ended on Fox News due to World Series Game 3 beginning. ** = Game earned a 9.9 for the full game from 8:31-11:25pm.
