Awful Announcing
This window was up 17 percent from last year's eighth doubleheader (Steelers-Saints on Dec. 23), and The NFL on CBS is up two percent on the year overall.
The 13.7 million viewers for Saturday's SEC championship game mean that CBS had both the #1 and #2 CFB games so far this year.
This Pac-12 championship was up 44 percent over last year's.
There are plenty of interesting elements in the regular-season viewership totals for the top 15 teams in the CFP rankings.
Is the answer more games on network television?
This was the best SNF Week 13 rating since 2010's Ravens-Steelers clash.
Big Noon Kickoff also topped ESPN's GameDay in overnight ratings for the first time ever.
The average of 32.538 million viewers for Bills-Cowboys was the best regular-season rating on any network in three years and the most-watched Thanksgiving Day game on CBS in 27 years.
Big Noon Kickoff averaged 1,979,000 viewers for its 11 a.m ET-noon hour Saturday. College GameDay averaged 2,725,000 viewers for its final hour, but 2,125,000 across its three hours, so Fox's peak is at least getting close to ESPN's average. And few would have predicted that when Big Noon Kickoff launched.
Cowboys-Patriots aired nationally on Fox, with only limited competition in some markets from Jaguars-Titans on CBS. That, plus the strong ratings draws involved and the possible playoff implications, helped lead to a massive 19.5 metered market rating.
The MLS Cup was previously held in December on Saturdays without much sports competition. But moving it up a month meant that it had to shift to Sunday to not conflict with ESPN college football coverage, and that saw it go head-to-head with the NFL.
LSU - Alabama was the second-most-watched regular-season college football game since 2011.
Game 7 drew 23.013 million viewers, the lowest for a World Series Game 7, but still more than enough to make this not the least-watched World Series ever.
If Game 6 ends the World Series, it may well be the least-watched World Series ever unless the average viewership goes up by over six million from Game 5.
The 2019 World Series ratings have not been good at all from a historical perspective.
