ABC’s Ohio State-Northwestern matchup on Saturday night led all college football games over the weekend with a 4.8 overnight, up 60% from a 3.0 for the comparable Nebraska-Ohio State game last year. CBS drew a 3.6 overnight for Georgia’s OT win over Tennessee in the 3:30pm ET window, down 23% from LSU-Florida last year. NBC aired Arizona State-Notre Dame in primetime on Saturday, earning a 2.5 overnight, which is up slightly from a 2.4 rating for Miami-Notre Dame in primetime last year. ESPN’s top college game of the weekend was a 1.9 overnight for Washington-Stanford, which aired from 10:45pm-2:00am. ESPN earned a 1.3 overnight for its “College GameDay” show from 10:00am-12:00pm. The show aired from the campus of Northwestern. Meanwhile, in the same window, FS1 earned a 0.0 overnight for “College Football Saturday.”
TEE IT UP: NBC earned a 2.5 overnight for the final day of the Presidents Cup yesterday, flat compared to coverage in ’09, which was the last time the event was held in the U.S. Coverage on Saturday earned a 2.2 overnight, down 12%.
The chart below lists overnight Nielsen ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
| "College Football Countdown" |
10/5
|
ABC
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.8
|
| College Football: (regional) |
10/5
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
2.8
|
| College Football: Ohio State-Northwestern |
10/5
|
ABC
|
8:00-11:45pm
|
4.8
|
| College Football: Air Force-Navy |
10/5
|
CBS
|
11:30am-3:00pm
|
1.0
|
| "College Football Today" |
10/5
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
1.3
|
| College Football: Georgia-Tennessee |
10/5
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
3.6
|
| College Football: TCU-Oklahoma |
10/5
|
Fox
|
7:00-10:15pm
|
1.3
|
| Golf: Presidents Cup |
10/5
|
NBC
|
8:00am-7:15pm
|
2.2
|
| College Football: Arizona State-Notre Dame |
10/5
|
NBC
|
7:30-11:30pm
|
2.5
|
| "The NFL Today" |
10/6
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.6
|
| "NFL on CBS": (regional) |
10/6
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
9.7
|
| "NFL on CBS": Broncos-Cowboys (100%) |
10/6
|
CBS
|
4:15-7:30pm
|
18.6
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
10/6
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.8
|
| "NFL on Fox": (single) |
10/6
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
12.5
|
| "Driven: A Race Without Boundaries" |
10/6
|
Fox
|
4:30-5:30pm
|
1.1
|
| Golf: Presidents Cup |
10/6
|
NBC
|
12:00-6:00pm
|
2.5
|
| "Football Night in America" |
10/6
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
5.5
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Texans-49ers |
10/6
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:30pm
|
11.6
|
