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Colorado draws worst broadcast TV numbers since start of Deion Sanders era
This season, Colorado games have averaged 3.84 million viewers, which is down 49 percent from the first eight weeks of last season.
SEC carried ESPN to strong college football viewership Saturday
The network scored the second and third most-watched games of the day with SEC contests.
SEC notches another week of strong viewership on ABC
Fortunately for Alabama fans, their game was not Nielsen rated.
Georgia-Alabama scores top audience of college football season so far
The game averaged 11.99 million viewers on ABC.
ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ off to best start in show history, seemingly separating from Fox’s ‘Big Noon Kickoff’
The ratings war between "GameDay" and "Big Noon Kickoff" appears to be over, for now.
ACC reportedly exploring ratings-based payments, which might alter college sports, but could keep Florida State and Clemson
CFB Week 2 ratings: Texas-Michigan scores, Colorado still draws (for now)
Week 2 in college football saw huge ratings across the board with the Texas-Michigan clash in Ann Arbor leading the way.
‘College GameDay’ posts third-highest viewed regular-season episode ever from Texas A&M
Week 1 saw College GameDay's most-watched regular-season episode since November 2016.
ABC records best CFB Week One numbers since 2016
The LSU-USC game here was a big part of overall ABC ratings success.
Missouri’s Cotton Bowl victory over Ohio State garners ratings win for ESPN
It's the "most-watched non-semifinal Cotton Bowl of the College Football Playoff era."
Final Pac-12 Championship Game puts up monster ratings numbers
"If this is to be our end, then I would have them make such an end, as to be worthy of remembrance."
‘College GameDay’ and ‘Big Noon Kickoff’ both (again) claim ratings victory, but gap’s closing
How many viewers will watch Michigan-Ohio State on Saturday?
It's traditionally the most-watched game of the regular season, but where will it land this year?
Notre Dame-Ohio State was the seventh-most-watched regular-season CFB game in the last five years
The 10.5 million viewers here was a giant audience number for ABC.
The story the CFP National Championship ratings tell is in the eye of the beholder
This year's title game showed year-over-year growth, but was still the second-lowest since 2005.
BYU-Coastal Carolina was ESPNU’s most-viewed game since 2015, and its fifth-most viewed game ever
The average of 1,212,000 viewers on ESPNU alone made this the most-viewed game there since Western Kentucky-LSU in 2015.
ABC’s three CFB windows all recorded season-high viewership Saturday, with Ohio State-Penn State their best game so far
ABC's three games Saturday averaged 4,940,000 viewers, their best tripleheader performance since Week 9 in 2019.
Rose Bowl and Citrus Bowl post impressive numbers for ESPN and ABC
There weren't any playoff games on New Year's Day this year, but some other bowls like the Rose and Citrus drew good numbers.
What would the College Football Playoff look like if it went by teams’ 2019 viewership?
There are plenty of interesting elements in the regular-season viewership totals for the top 15 teams in the CFP rankings.
LSU – Alabama ratings up 47 percent from 2018 for CBS, highest since 2011
LSU - Alabama was the second-most-watched regular-season college football game since 2011.
Week 3 CFB ratings see lowest Notre Dame home opener since at least 1997, drops for ABC/ESPN and CBS (updated)
There were plenty of year-over-year drops in the Week 3 ratings, including for NBC, ABC and ESPN.
Miami-Florida drew some of ESPN’s best CFB ratings in years, which might lead to even more Week 0 emphasis
This marked the first recent Week 0 matchup between two Power Five teams, but the ratings success might mean it isn't the last one.
For the second-straight year, Ohio State-Michigan set a Fox viewership record, just one of many strong CFB ratings notes this week
Fox's viewership for Ohio State-Michigan was a 26 percent bump over last year, and last year set a record as their best-watched regular-season game ever.
ABC dominated Week 5 college football primetime ratings, with OSU-PSU best regular season number on ABC/ESPN in a year
Ratings for ABC's Saturday Night Football have been great so far, with Ohio State-Penn State one of their five best rated games ever.
