ABC led all college football windows on Saturday with its 3:30pm ET regionalized telecast, which featured Boston College-Florida State and Wisconsin-Iowa. That window drew a 3.6 overnight rating, which topped ABC’s 3.3 overnight for USC-UCLA in primetime. ESPN’s top game on Saturday was Minnesota’s win over Nebraska in the 12:00pm window (2.0 overnight). ESPN drew a 1.3 overnight for “College GameDay,” which made its first-ever appearance in Cambridge, Mass., for the Yale-Harvard game. Meanwhile, CBS had a weaker matchup for its SEC coverage on Saturday, as the net featured Arkansas’ rout of Ole Miss at 3:30pm. The 1.9 overnight for the game is the net’s lowest SEC rating of the season. That figure also was lower than NBC’s final Notre Dame game of the season, with the net drawing a 2.2 overnight for the matchup against Louisville. Fox on Saturday night drew a 1.4 overnight for Oklahoma State-Baylor.
The chart below lists overnight ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
| NFL: Dolphins-Broncos (83%) |
11/23
|
CBS
|
4:25-7:30pm
|
17.4
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Cowboys-Giants |
11/23
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:30pm
|
14.0
|
| NFL: (singleheader) |
11/23
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
12.9
|
| NFL: (regional)* |
11/23
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
10.3
|
| "Football Night in America" |
11/23
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
5.3
|
| College Football: (regional) |
11/22
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
3.6
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
11/23
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.4
|
| College Football: USC-UCLA |
11/22
|
ABC
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
3.3
|
| "The NFL Today" |
11/23
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.5
|
| College Football: Louisville-Notre Dame |
11/22
|
NBC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
2.2
|
| College Football: Ole Miss-Arkansas |
11/22
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
1.9
|
| College Football: Oklahoma State-Baylor |
11/22
|
Fox
|
7:30-11:00pm
|
1.4
|
| "Fox College Saturday" |
11/22
|
Fox
|
6:30-7:30pm
|
1.0
|
| "College Football Countdown" |
11/22
|
ABC
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.9
|
| EPL: Arsenal-Manchester United |
11/22
|
NBC
|
12:30-2:30pm
|
0.9
|
| "College Football Today" |
11/22
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.8
|
| ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: France |
11/23
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.8
|
| Lucas Oil Off Road Racing |
11/22
|
CBS
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.6
|
| "Notre Dame Football Pre-Game" |
11/22
|
NBC
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.6
|
| "EPL Goal Zone" |
11/22
|
NBC
|
2:30-3:00pm
|
0.5
|
| "World of Adventure Sports" |
11/23
|
NBC
|
12:30-1:30pm
|
0.5
|
| MLS Eastern Conference Finals: Revolution-Red Bulls |
11/23
|
NBC
|
1:30-4:00pm
|
0.5
|
| "World of X Games: Snowboarding for ME" |
11/23
|
ABC
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
0.3
|
| |
|
|
|
|
NOTE: * = Jets-Bills originally slated for regional window moved to Monday night after snowstorm.
