ABC led all college football telecasts in Week 9 with a 3.6 overnight rating for Clemson-Florida State on Saturday night. That figure was down from a 3.9 overnight for Notre Dame-Temple in the same window on Halloween weekend last year. ESPN drew the cable net's second-best CFB overnight of the season with Michigan-Michigan State in the 12:00pm ET window (3.1 overnight). The net also drew a 2.5 overnight for Northwestern-Ohio State in the 3:30pm window, which marks the cable net's fourth-best CFB overnight this season to date. The Florida-Georgia game on CBS in the 3:30pm window drew a 2.7 overnight, down 21% compared to the same game last year.
The chart below lists overnight ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV. Several NBC figures from Sunday were unavailable at presstime.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
| World Series: Indians-Cubs: Game 3 |
10/28
|
Fox
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
12.4
|
| College football: (regional)* |
10/29
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
2.1
|
| College football: Baylor-Texas |
10/29
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
2.4
|
| College football: Clemson-FSU |
10/29
|
ABC
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
3.6
|
| "Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series" |
10/29
|
CBS
|
1:30-2:30pm
|
0.4
|
| "College Football Special" |
10/29
|
CBS
|
2:30-3:00pm
|
0.5
|
| College football: Florida-Georgia |
10/29
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
2.7
|
| College football: West Virginia-Oklahoma State |
10/29
|
Fox
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
1.4
|
| Supercross: "Monster Energy Cup" |
10/29
|
Fox
|
3:30-5:00pm
|
0.6
|
| World Series: Indians-Cubs: Game 4 |
10/29
|
Fox
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
10.5
|
| EPL: Crystal Palace-Liverpool |
10/29
|
NBC
|
12:30-2:30pm
|
0.6
|
| College Football: Miami-Notre Dame |
10/29
|
NBC
|
3:45-7:30pm
|
1.6
|
| "World of X Games: WSL Surfing" |
10/30
|
ABC
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
0.4
|
| "Stihl Timbersports Series" |
10/30
|
ABC
|
4:00-5:00pm
|
0.8
|
| "The NFL Today" |
10/30
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:03pm
|
1.9
|
| NFL: (singleheader) |
10/30
|
CBS
|
1:03-4:25pm
|
10.3
|
| "Golf's Best of 2016" |
10/30
|
CBS
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
4.0
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
10/30
|
Fox
|
9:00-9:30pm
|
1.7
|
| NFL: Redskins-Bengals (London) |
10/30
|
Fox
|
9:30am-1:30pm
|
6.8
|
| NFL: (regional) |
10/30
|
Fox
|
1:03-4:15pm
|
9.0
|
| NFL nat'l window: Packers-Falcons (98%) |
10/30
|
Fox
|
4:25-7:40pm
|
14.7
|
| World Series: Indians-Cubs: Game 5 |
10/30
|
Fox
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
15.3
|
| "SNF": Eagles-Cowboys |
10/30
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:30pm
|
11.6
|
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|
|
|
|
NOTE: * = Featured Louisville-Virginia and Penn State-Purdue.
