Ohio State’s come-from-behind win over TCU on Saturday led ABC to the best college football rating this season to date. The primetime game drew a 4.9 overnight rating, up 48% from a 3.3 for Clemson-Louisville in the Week 3 primetime game last year. Ohio State-TCU also is ABC’s best regular-season CFB overnight since Oklahoma-Ohio State in Week 2 last year. ESPN’s “College GameDay” was flat on Saturday morning (originated from OSU-TCU). Meanwhile, CBS drew a 3.7 overnight on Saturday afternoon for LSU’s late win over Auburn, up 19% from Tennessee-Florida last year in Week 3. Alabama-Ole Miss was ESPN’s top game on Saturday, drawing a 2.2 overnight in primetime. That figure was just below the 2.3 for USC-Texas on Fox. FS1’s top college game on Saturday was Kent State-Penn State at a 0.3 overnight.
The chart below lists overnight ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
| College football: Oklahoma-Iowa State |
9/15
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
2.6
|
| College football: BYU-Wisconsin |
9/15
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
2.1
|
| College football: Ohio State-TCU |
9/15
|
ABC
|
8:00pm-12:00am
|
4.9
|
| College football: LSU-Auburn |
9/15
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
3.7
|
| MLB: (regional) |
9/15
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:45pm
|
1.0
|
| College football: Houston-Texas Tech |
9/15
|
Fox
|
4:45-8:00pm
|
0.8
|
| College football: USC-Texas |
9/15
|
Fox
|
8:15pm-12:00am
|
2.3
|
| EPL: Watford-Manchester United |
9/15
|
NBC
|
12:30-2:30pm
|
0.7
|
| College football: Vanderbilt-Notre Dame |
9/15
|
NBC
|
2:30-6:00pm
|
1.7
|
| "World of X Games" |
9/16
|
ABC
|
4:00-5:00pm
|
0.6
|
| "The NFL Today" |
9/16
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.5
|
| NFL: (regional) |
9/16
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
9.4
|
| NFL: Patriots-Jaguars (79%) |
9/16
|
CBS
|
4:15-7:30pm
|
14.0
|
| "Fox NFL Kickoff" |
9/16
|
Fox
|
11:00am-12:00pm
|
1.3
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
9/16
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.4
|
| NFL: (singleheader) |
9/16
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
10.9
|
| LPGA: Evian Masters: Final Round (taped) |
9/16
|
NBC
|
2:30-4:00pm
|
0.4
|
| FEI Equestrian Games |
9/16
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.5
|
| "Football Night in America" |
9/16
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
6.1
|
| "SNF": Giants-Cowboys |
9/16
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:30pm
|
13.8
|
