ABC’s regional college football coverage in the 3:30pm ET window on Saturday led all college football telecasts over the weekend with a 4.1 overnight Nielsen rating. The window featured Ohio State’s upset of Illinois and Oklahoma State’s blowout win over Texas. ESPN’s Michigan-Michigan State telecast topped all games on cable with a 3.6 overnight in the 12:00pm window. The net’s Florida-Auburn game earned a 2.6 overnight opposite Fox’ series-clinching ALCS Game Six (5.0 overnight) and ABC’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Bank of America 500 on Saturday night. CBS saw a slight uptick for their SEC football coverage, with the LSU-Tennessee game up slightly from Arkansas-Auburn last year. ABC’s coverage of the Izod IndyCar Series World Championships yesterday, which was marred by the death of driver Dan Wheldon, averaged a 1.5 overnight rating.
The chart below lists overnight Nielsen ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST | DATE | NET | TIME (ET) | RAT. |
| "College Football Countdown" | 10/15 | ABC | 3:00-3:30pm | 1.1 |
| College Football: (regional) | 10/15 | ABC | 3:30-7:00pm | 4.1 |
| "NASCAR Countdown" | 10/15 | ABC | 7:00-7:30pm | 2.6 |
| NASCAR Sprint Cup: Bank of America 500 (Charlotte) | 10/15 | ABC | 7:30-11:00pm | 3.0 |
| Lucas Oil Off Road Racing (taped) | 10/15 | CBS | 2:00-3:00pm | 0.3 |
| "College Football Today" | 10/15 | CBS | 3:00-3:30pm | 0.6 |
| College Football: LSU-Tennessee | 10/15 | CBS | 3:30-7:00pm | 2.8 |
| ALCS: Rangers-Tigers: Game Six | 10/15 | Fox | 8:00-11:30pm | 5.0 |
| World Gymnastics Championships: (taped) | 10/15 | NBC | 1:00-3:00pm | 1.0 |
| "Dew Tour Countdown" | 10/15 | NBC | 3:00-3:30pm | 0.6 |
| Dew Tour Championships | 10/15 | NBC | 3:30-5:00pm | 0.5 |
| Horse Racing: The Queen Elizabeth II (Keeneland) | 10/15 | NBC | 5:00-6:00pm | 0.7 |
| "IndyCar Countdown" | 10/16 | ABC | 3:00-3:30pm | 0.3 |
| Izod IndyCar Series World Championships (Las Vegas) | 10/16 | ABC | 3:30-6:30pm | 1.5 |
| "The NFL Today" | 10/16 | CBS | 12:00-1:00pm | 2.3 |
| "NFL on CBS": (single) | 10/16 | CBS | 1:00-4:05pm | 9.9 |
| PBR: Cooper Tires Invitational (taped) | 10/16 | CBS | 4:30-5:30pm | 1.2 |
| "Fox NFL Sunday" | 10/16 | Fox | 12:00-1:00pm | 3.4 |
| "NFL on Fox": (regional) | 10/16 | Fox | 1:00-4:15pm | 12.4 |
| "NFL on Fox": Cowboys-Patriots (88%) | 10/16 | Fox | 4:15-7:30pm | 19.1 |
| "The OT" | 10/16 | Fox | 7:30-8:00pm | 9.1 |
| World Gymnastics Championships: (taped) | 10/16 | NBC | 2:00-4:00pm | 0.8 |
| "Dew Tour Countdown" | 10/16 | NBC | 4:00-4:30pm | 0.5 |
| Dew Tour Championships | 10/16 | NBC | 4:30-6:00pm | 0.5 |
| "Football Night in America" | 10/16 | NBC | 7:30-8:15pm | 5.0 |
| "Sunday Night Football": Vikings-Bears | 10/16 | NBC | 8:30-11:30pm | 11.2 |
