CBS led all college football telecasts over the weekend with a 4.7 overnight Nielsen rating for the LSU-Florida game, marking the net’s best SEC regular-season overnight in the 3:30pm ET window since Georgia-Auburn earned a 5.4 rating in November ’10. Fox earned a 3.2 overnight for the West Virginia-Texas matchup on Saturday night, beating out both Nebraska-Ohio State on ABC and Miami-Notre Dame on NBC. The 2.4 overnight for Miami-Notre Dame also marks NBC's third-best rating for a primetime Notre Dame game.
The chart below lists overnight Nielsen ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
| "College Football Countdown" |
10/6
|
ABC
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
n/a
|
| NCAA Football: (regional) |
10/6
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
1.9
|
| NCAA Football: Nebraska-Ohio State |
10/6
|
ABC
|
8:00-11:15pm
|
3.1
|
| NCAA Football: Navy-Air Force |
10/6
|
CBS
|
11:30am-3:00pm
|
1.2
|
| "College Football Today" |
10/6
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
1.4
|
| NCAA Football: LSU-Florida |
10/6
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
4.7
|
| NCAA Football: Arizona-Stanford |
10/6
|
Fox
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
1.0
|
| NCAA Football: West Virginia-Texas |
10/6
|
Fox
|
7:45-11:00pm
|
3.2
|
| Red Bull Signature Series: Joy Ride (taped) |
10/6
|
NBC
|
1:30-3:30pm
|
0.5
|
| MLS: Fire-Red Bulls |
10/6
|
NBC
|
3:30-6:00pm
|
0.4
|
| NCAA Football: Miami-Notre Dame |
10/6
|
NBC
|
7:30-11:00pm
|
2.4
|
| "The NFL Today" |
10/7
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.6
|
| "NFL on CBS": (regional) |
10/7
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
9.3
|
| "NFL on CBS": Broncos-Patriots (81%) |
10/7
|
CBS
|
4:15-7:30pm
|
15.7
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
10/7
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.3
|
| "NFL on Fox": (single) |
10/7
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:00pm
|
12.5
|
| EPL: Manchester United-Newcastle United (taped) |
10/7
|
Fox
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
1.1
|
| PBR: Philadelphia Invitational (taped) |
10/7
|
NBC
|
2:00-3:30pm
|
0.5
|
| UCI Road Cycling World Championships (taped) |
10/7
|
NBC
|
3:30-4:30pm
|
0.3
|
| America's Cup World Series (taped) |
10/7
|
NBC
|
4:30-6:00pm
|
0.6
|
| "Football Night in America" |
10/7
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
5.5
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Chargers-Saints |
10/7
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:30pm
|
11.7
|
