A highly-anticipated Miami-Florida State matchup was the most-watched college football game of the weekend. ABC drew a 5.4 overnight for the primetime game, up 184% from Oklahoma State-Kansas State in Week 10 last year. CBS' Georgia-Florida game was the top afternoon college game on Saturday, drawing a 3.4 overnight, which was just ahead of the 3.3 for Michigan-Michigan State game on ABC. However, the Georgia-Florida matchup is down 26% from the same game on CBS last year (aired on week earlier). The '13 Georgia-Florida telecast is up 70% from Georgia-Ole Miss in Week 10 last season. ESPN’s top college games for the weekend were Illinois-Penn State and Tennessee-Missouri, which both drew a 1.3 overnight.
HORSE FEATHERS: NBC drew a 1.4 overnight rating for the Breeders' Cup Classic from 8:00-9:00pm ET on Saturday. Last year's event, which had a lead-in from the triple OT Pitt-Notre Dame game that went right up until the start of the telecast, drew a 2.2 overnight. Navy-Notre Dame aired on NBC on Saturday from 3:30-7:00pm.
NOTES: ESPN drew a 2.3 overnight for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race from Texas Motor Speedway yesterday, down from a 2.5 rating for the same race last year. ESPN also drew a 2.0 overnight for its opening NBA doubleheader on Friday night, which featured Heat-Nets and Spurs-Lakers. That figure marks the net's third-best season-opening NBA doubleheader ever (excluding Christmas Day doubleheader in '11-12 due to lockout).
The chart below lists overnight Nielsen ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
| College Football: (regional) |
11/2
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
2.3
|
| College Football: Michigan-Michigan State |
11/2
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
3.3
|
| College Football: Miami-Florida State |
11/2
|
ABC
|
8:00-11:45pm
|
5.4
|
| Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League |
11/2
|
CBS
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
| "College Football Today" |
11/2
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.8
|
| College Football: Florida-Georgia |
11/2
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
3.4
|
| College Football: Oklahoma State-Texas Tech |
11/2
|
Fox
|
7:00-10:30pm
|
1.5
|
| EPL: Arsenal-Liverpool |
11/2
|
NBC
|
1:30-3:30pm
|
0.8
|
| College Football: Navy-Notre Dame |
11/2
|
NBC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
1.8
|
| Breeders' Cup Classic |
11/2
|
NBC
|
8:00-9:00pm
|
1.4
|
| "ING NYC Marathon Highlights Show" |
11/3
|
ABC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.6
|
| "The NFL Today" |
11/3
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.6
|
| "NFL on CBS": (regional) |
11/3
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
10.0
|
| "NFL on CBS": Steelers-Patriots (88%) |
11/3
|
CBS
|
4:15-7:30pm
|
15.4
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
11/3
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.2
|
| "NFL on Fox": (single) |
11/3
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
12.8
|
| ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate China |
11/3
|
NBC
|
1:30-3:30pm
|
0.7
|
| MLS Eastern Conference Semis: Dynamo-Red Bulls: Leg 1 |
11/3
|
NBC
|
3:30-6:00pm
|
0.4
|
| "Football Night in America" |
11/3
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
4.0
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Colts-Texans |
11/3
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:30pm
|
11.4
|
