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The numbers are in after another excellent schedule of college football games this past weekend. FOX’s Big Noon Saturday scored the most-watched college football game of the week with the Ohio State Buckeye’s defeating the Nebraska Cornhuskers 21-17. The Ohio State-Nebraska game drew an average audience of 5.956 million viewers.
FOX Sports reports the broadcast peaked at 9.456 million viewers during the 3:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET block. The average was up 66% over Big Noon Saturday’s Week 9 game in 2023.
On ABC, ESPN reports the game between the Missouri Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 3:30 p.m. ET window drew the second highest average audience size at 5.7 million viewers. That game peaked at 6.3 million.
The only other game to average more than 5 million viewers was also aired by ABC. It was the primetime SEC on ABC window which featured the LSU Tigers and the Texas A&M Aggies. That game drew 5.1 million on average and peaked at 5.6 million.
According to various reports, one other game drew an audience size of more than 3 million viewers and that was NBC’s coverage of the Penn State-Wisconsin game which drew 3.5 million.
Another broadcasting note, courtesy of Austin Karp from Sports Business Journal, who posted on X that the Michigan-Michigan State game Saturday night drew 1.7 million viewers to Big Ten Network, marking their best primetime college game ever and the network’s most-watched game of the season.
