ESPN had three college football games on Saturday -- the Jared Birmingham Bowl, Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl and SoFi Hawaii Bowl -- and all three saw big drops in overnight ratings. Wake Forest-Memphis in the Birmingham Bowl on Saturday afternoon led the way with a 1.7 overnight, but that was down from a 2.2 for USF-Texas Tech in the same window last year. Army’s rout of Houston in the Armed Forces Bowl in the late afternoon window drew a 1.6, down from a 2.2 for Army-San Diego State last year (same window). In the late night window (10:30pm ET), Louisiana Tech-Hawaii drew a 0.7, down from a 1.0 for Appalachian State-Toledo in the Dollar General Bowl in the same window last year. Meanwhile, on Saturday night, Fox drew a 1.5 overnight for its Premier Boxing Champions card, marking the net’s best PBC telecast since January ’16.
The chart below lists overnight ratings from Christmas weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
| "World of X Games" |
12/22
|
ABC
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
"30 for 30": "Celtics/Lakers:
Best of Enemies: Part 3" |
12/22
|
ABC
|
3:00-5:00pm
|
0.6
|
| College basketball: Villanova-UConn |
12/22
|
CBS
|
12:30-3:00pm
|
0.9
|
| College basketball: Ohio State-UCLA |
12/22
|
CBS
|
3:00-5:00pm
|
1.1
|
| College basketball: Kentucky-North Carolina |
12/22
|
CBS
|
5:30-7:45pm
|
1.7
|
| "Red Bull Crashed Ice" |
12/22
|
Fox
|
3:00-5:00pm
|
0.4
|
Premier Boxing Champions:
Charlo-Korobov/Charlo-Harrison |
12/22
|
Fox
|
8:00-10:15pm
|
1.5
|
| EPL: Manchester United-Cardiff City |
12/22
|
NBC
|
12:30-2:30pm
|
0.7
|
| Monster Jam (taped) |
12/22
|
NBC
|
4:00-5:00pm
|
0.4
|
| "The NFL Today" |
12/23
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:03pm
|
2.5
|
| NFL: (regional) |
12/23
|
CBS
|
1:03-4:15pm
|
10.8
|
| NFL: Steelers-Saints (98%) |
12/23
|
CBS
|
4:25-7:40pm
|
15.3
|
| "Fox NFL Kickoff" |
12/23
|
Fox
|
11:00am-12:00pm
|
1.3
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
12/23
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:03pm
|
n/a
|
| NFL: (singleheader) |
12/23
|
Fox
|
1:03-4:05pm
|
10.1
|
| Bowling: PBA Clash |
12/23
|
Fox
|
4:30-6:00pm
|
n/a
|
Skiing: FIS World Cup:
Women's slalom (taped) |
12/23
|
NBC
|
2:30-4:30pm
|
0.3
|
| "Football Night in America" |
12/23
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
4.0
|
| "SNF": Chiefs-Seahawks |
12/23
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:45pm
|
12.6
|
