The final weekend of college bowl games was led by ESPN’s broadcast of the Valero Alamo Bowl. The net drew a 3.6 overnight rating for UCLA’s 40-35 win over Kansas State on Saturday night, down from a 4.6 rating for Oregon-Texas in the same bowl last year, which aired on a Monday night in late December. ESPN also drew a 3.1 overnight for the Birmingham Bowl on Saturday in the lead-up to the net’s first-ever NFL Playoff game. Florida’s win over East Carolina from 12:00-3:45pm ET is up from a 1.9 rating for Vanderbilt-Houston in the same window last year. The final bowl before the CFP Championship -- last night’s GoDaddy Bowl -- drew a 0.8 overnight on ESPN. The Toledo-Arkansas State matchup was down from a 1.1 for Arkansas State-Ball State in the same window last year. Meanwhile, UNLV-Kansas was the top college basketball audience from the weekend. CBS drew a 2.5 overnight for the hoops matchup following the Colts-Bengals Wild Card, up from a 1.9 rating for San Diego State-Kansas in the same window last year following CBS’ Chargers-Bengals Wild Card telecast.
The chart below lists overnight ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
| "World of X Games: ASP Surfing" |
1/3
|
ABC
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.5
|
| "World of X Games: Winter Heroes" |
1/3
|
ABC
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
0.4
|
| "ESPN Sports Saturday" |
1/3
|
ABC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.6
|
| Off Road Racing: Lucas Oil Challenge Cup |
1/3
|
CBS
|
1:00-2:00pm
|
0.6
|
| College basketball: UConn-Florida |
1/3
|
CBS
|
2:00-4:15pm
|
0.8
|
| Women's college basketball: Maryland-Nebraska |
1/3
|
CBS
|
4:15-6:00pm
|
0.5
|
| High school football: U.S. Army All-American Bowl |
1/3
|
NBC
|
1:00-4:00pm
|
0.9
|
| USSA Skiing |
1/3
|
NBC
|
4:00-5:00pm
|
0.5
|
| "Football Night in America" |
1/3
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:00pm
|
4.1
|
| AFC Wild Card: Ravens-Steelers |
1/3
|
NBC
|
8:15-11:15pm
|
17.3
|
| "The NFL Today" |
1/4
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
4.5
|
| AFC Wild Card: Bengals-Colts |
1/4
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
18.5
|
| College basketball: UNLV-Kansas |
1/4
|
CBS
|
4:30-6:30pm
|
2.5
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
1/4
|
Fox
|
4:00-4:45pm
|
10.5
|
| NFC Wild Card: Lions-Cowboys |
1/4
|
Fox
|
4:45-8:00pm
|
25.0
|
