ABC led all college football broadcasts over the weekend with a 4.2 overnight rating for Oklahoma-Baylor in primetime on Saturday. Alabama-Mississippi State on CBS in the 3:30pm ET window was next with a 3.5, followed by ABC's regionalized 3:30pm coverage drawing a 3.4 (Michigan-Indiana and Clemson-Syracuse). ESPN had the top cable game with a 2.0 overnight for Arkansas-LSU in primetime.
FRIDAY NIGHT PLANS: ESPN on Friday night aired the Pitt-Gonzaga Armed Forces Classic men's basketball game from 7:00-9:15pm, but the game was cut short due to a slippery floor. That telecast drew a 0.4 overnight, which was the same figure ESPN2 drew in the same window for the U.S. men's soccer team's 6-1 win over St. Vincent & The Grenadines in a World Cup qualifier.
SLIPPERY WHEN WET: NBC aired a rain-shortened Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 yesterday from Phoenix Int'l Raceway. The race, scheduled for 312 laps, ended on lap 219 after rain shelved the scheduled start by 6 hours, 46 minutes. The race was to begin at 2:45pm ET, but the green flag dropped around 9:30pm. NBC for its rain coverage drew a 1.5 overnight, while NBCSN from 9:30-11:45pm drew a 1.3 overnight.
The chart below lists overnight ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
| College football: Ohio State-Illinois |
11/14
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
2.8
|
| College football: (regional) |
11/14
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:45pm
|
3.4
|
| College football: Oklahoma-Baylor |
11/14
|
ABC
|
8:00pm-12:00am
|
4.2
|
| College football: Georgia-Auburn |
11/14
|
CBS
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
2.1
|
| College football: Alabama-Mississippi State |
11/14
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:15pm
|
3.6
|
| "Fox College Kickoff" |
11/14
|
Fox
|
7:00-7:30pm
|
1.0
|
| College football: Oregon-Stanford |
11/14
|
Fox
|
7:30-11:00pm
|
2.0
|
| Ironman World Championships (taped) |
11/14
|
NBC
|
1:30-3:00pm
|
0.5
|
| "Countdown to Kickoff" |
11/14
|
NBC
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.6
|
| College football: Wake Forest-Notre Dame |
11/14
|
NBC
|
3:30-6:45pm
|
1.4
|
| "World of X Games: WSL Surfing" |
11/15
|
ABC
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.3
|
| "The NFL Today" |
11/15
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:03pm
|
2.7
|
| NFL: (regional) |
11/15
|
CBS
|
1:03-4:25pm
|
9.6
|
| NFL: Patriots-Giants (66%) |
11/15
|
CBS
|
4:25-7:40pm
|
18.3
|
| "Fox NFL Kickoff" |
11/15
|
Fox
|
11:00am-12:00pm
|
1.2
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
11/15
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.5
|
| NFL: (singleheader) |
11/15
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
11.7
|
| ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating |
11/15
|
NBC
|
12:00-2:00pm
|
0.9
|
| "NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Quicken Loans 500 (Phoenix)* |
11/15
|
NBC
|
2:45-6:00pm
|
1.5
|
| "Football Night in America" |
11/15
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
4.1
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Cardinals-Seahawks |
11/15
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:45pm
|
12.6
|
| |
|
|
|
|
NOTES: * = Race saw rain delay for NBC telecast.
