The chart below lists final Nielsen ratings from recent sports telecasts (THE DAILY).
| TELECAST | DATE | NET | TIME | RAT. |
| NCAA Football: Chick-Fil-A College Kickoff:
Alabama-Virginia Tech | 9/5 | ABC | 8:06-11:56pm | 4.2 |
| NCAA Football: (regional) | 9/5 | ABC | 3:30-6:59pm | 3.5 |
| PGA Tour: Deutsche Bank Championship:
Final Round | 9/7 | NBC | 2:00-6:00pm | 2.2 |
| PGA Tour: Deutsche Bank Championship:
Third Round | 9/6 | NBC | 3:00-6:00pm | 1.7 |
| U.S. Open: Men's, Women's Third Round | 9/6 | CBS | 11:00am-6:00pm | 1.7 |
| U.S. Open: Men's, Women's Fourth Round | 9/5 | CBS | 11:00am-6:45pm | 1.4 |
| NCAA Football: Nevada-Notre Dame | 9/5 | NBC | 3:30-7:00pm | 1.3 |
| MLB: (regional) | 9/5 | Fox | 4:00-6:52pm | 1.3 |
| "College Football Countdown" | 9/5 | ABC | 3:00-3:30pm | 0.9 |
| Golden League Track & Field (taped) | 9/6 | NBC | 2:00-3:00pm | 0.8 |
| USOC Hall of Fame Show (taped) | 9/5 | NBC | 2:00-3:30pm | 0.4 |
| Traxxas Torc Truck Series (taped) | 9/6 | ABC | 4:00-5:00pm | 0.4 |
| TELECAST | DATE | NET | TIME | U.S. | CABLE | VIEWERS (000) |
| NFL Preseason:
Vikings-Texans | 8/31 | ESPN | 8:00-11:00pm | 5.2 | 6.0 | 7,918 |
| NASCAR Sprint Cup:
Pep Boys Auto 500 | 9/6 | ESPN | 7:45-11:06pm | 3.5 | 4.1 | 5,808 |
NCAA Football:
BYU-Oklahoma | 9/5 | ESPN | 7:00-10:30pm | 2.8 | 3.3 | 4,562 |
NCAA Football:
Navy-Ohio State | 9/5 | ESPN | 12:01-3:03pm | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3,877 |
NCAA Football:
Oregon-Boise State | 9/3 | ESPN | 10:13pm-1:29am | 2.5 | 2.9 | 3,855 |
| "NASCAR Countdown" | 9/6 | ESPN | 6:58-7:45pm | 2.3 | 2.7 | 3,797 |
NCAA Football:
LSU-Washington | 9/5 | ESPN | 10:30pm-1:56am | 2.1 | 2.5 | 3,362 |
NCAA Football:
South Carolina-N.C. State | 9/3 | ESPN | 7:00-10:04pm | 2.1 | 2.4 | 3,263 |
NCAA Football:
Ole Miss-Memphis | 9/6 | ESPN | 3:30-6:58pm | 1.5 | 1.7 | 2,307 |
| "College GameDay" | 9/5 | ESPN | 10:00am-12:00pm | 1.5 | 1.7 | 2,061 |
BACK TO SCHOOL: ESPN earned a 5.9 cable rating and 8.406 million viewers for Monday's Miami-Florida State game, marking the second-most viewed regular-season college football game in network history, trailing only a 6.9 cable rating and 9.12 million viewers for the same matchup in '06 (ESPN)....Last Sunday's Colorado State-Colorado game, which aired nationally on FSN, earned a 1.0 U.S. rating, up 14% from the same game last year. FSN Rocky Mountain led all regional nets with an 11.5 local rating, marking the second-highest rated college football telecast ever on the network behind a 12.3 rating for the same matchup last year (THE DAILY).
NOTES: CSN Bay Area earned a 5.81 local rating and more than 202,000 HHs for Padres-Giants Tuesday, marking the network's most-viewed Giants game this season. The game also ranked as the highest-rated Giants game on the net since a 7.8 local rating for the August '07 Nationals-Giants game in which former MLBer Barry Bonds hit his record-breaking 756th home run (CSN)....TSN drew 982,000 viewers for last Sunday's CFL Winnipeg Blue Bombers-Saskatchewan Roughriders game, marking the most-watched sporting event on Canadian TV for the weekend (TSN).
