Alabama's fourth-quarter comeback over Tennessee helped CBS record the top-rated college football game on Saturday. The game drew a 4.2 overnight on CBS in the 3:30pm ET window, up 27% from a 3.3 rating for the comparable game last year, which pitted No. 1 Mississippi State against Kentucky. Meanwhile, ABC televised two of the three highest-rated games in college football's Week 8, led by Ohio State-Rutgers with a 3.3 overnight in primetime. The net's 3:30pm ET regional window, featuring Indiana-Michigan State and Texas Tech-Oklahoma, drew a 3.2 overnight, up 19% from the comparable time slot in '14.
The chart below lists overnight ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
| College football: Clemson-Miami |
10/24
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
2.0
|
| College football: (regional) |
10/24
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
3.2
|
| College football: Ohio State-Rutgers |
10/24
|
ABC
|
8:30-11:30pm
|
3.3
|
| "College Football Today" |
10/24
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.8
|
| College football: Tennessee-Alabama |
10/24
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
4.2
|
NASCAR: Camping World Truck Series:
(Talladega) |
10/24
|
Fox
|
1:00-3:00pm
|
0.9
|
| "Fox College Football Pregame" |
10/24
|
Fox
|
7:00-7:30pm
|
0.9
|
| College football: Utah-USC |
10/24
|
Fox
|
7:30-11:00pm
|
2.5
|
| EPL: Arsenal-Everton |
10/24
|
NBC
|
12:30-2:30pm
|
0.9
|
| Rugby World Cup Semifinal |
10/24
|
NBC
|
2:30-5:00pm
|
0.7
|
| ISU Figure Skating |
10/24
|
NBC
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
0.8
|
| "World of X Games: Beyond Measure" |
10/25
|
ABC
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
0.3
|
| "STIHL Timbersports Series" |
10/25
|
ABC
|
4:00-5:00pm
|
0.5
|
| "The NFL Today" |
10/25
|
CBS
|
12:00-12:30pm
|
2.9
|
| NFL: (singleheader) |
10/25
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:00pm
|
12.2
|
| "Golf's Best of 2015" |
10/25
|
CBS
|
5:00-5:30pm
|
1.4
|
| "Fox NFL Kickoff" |
10/25
|
Fox
|
11:00am-12:00pm
|
1.2
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
10/25
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.4
|
| NFL: (regional) |
10/25
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:00pm
|
8.7
|
| NFL: Cowboys-Giants (98%) |
10/25
|
Fox
|
4:25-7:30pm
|
15.8
|
| EPL: Liverpool-Southampton |
10/25
|
NBC
|
12:00-2:00pm
|
0.7
|
| "Premier League Goal Zone" |
10/25
|
NBC
|
2:00-2:30pm
|
na
|
| F1 Pre-Race |
10/25
|
NBC
|
2:30-3:00pm
|
na
|
| F1: Austin Grand Prix |
10/25
|
NBC
|
3:00-5:15pm
|
0.7
|
| "F1 Extra" |
10/25
|
NBC
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
na
|
| "Football Night In America" |
10/25
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
na
|
| Sunday Night Football: Eagles-Panthers |
10/25
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:45pm
|
13.6
|
