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Everywhere you look football is dominating the television screens. Whether it is college or professional, football is definitely king on television and the NFL is having its best year in almost a decade.
Through 11 weeks of the season, the league is averaging 17.5 million viewers per game, which is the highest per game average through 11 weeks in nine years. Since the season has started, 47 of the top 50 shows on television have been NFL football games.
The largest audience for a game came this past weekend when the two-time defending Super Bowl champs had their undefeated season snapped at the hands of Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. The game averaged 31.2 million viewers on CBS and had more than 3 million viewers, on average, than the second highest game. That game also involved the Chiefs, when they took on the Baltimore Ravens the first week of the season and drew an audience of 28 million to NBC.
The third most-watched game? You guessed it, it involved the Kansas City Chiefs. Their Week 2 matchup with Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals on CBS averaged just under 28 million viewers.
Rounding out the top five audiences this season are the Baltimore Ravens-Dallas Cowboys game in Week 3 as FOX Sports drew 27.3 million viewers. The fifth most watched game once again had Kansas City playing, it was the Week 7 Super Bowl rematch against the San Francisco 49ers. That game drew just over 27 million viewers on FOX.
