Tag: Big Noon Saturday

“We didn’t cancel. We didn’t move out of upfront week.”

The agreement, while expected -- perhaps not this early, but expected -- did still leave several questions that I'm not sure can be answered immediately.

On Saturday, FOX grabbed 4,005,000 viewers for the Michigan-Indiana matchup in the Big Noon Saturday window, up 40% from 2021's Week 6 game of Maryland-Ohio State (2,870,000).

Saturday's broadcast of Michigan-Iowa drew 4,198,000 viewers on FOX.

Big Noon Saturday grabbed 4,378,000 viewers on FOX this week for the Maryland-Michigan game. That result brings the network's first four games average viewership to 6,260,000, up 6% from 2021 and rates as the most-watched window in college football.

The network's Big Noon Saturday game is averaging 7,160,000 viewers which is up 18% from the first three weeks of 2021 (6,053,000 viewers).

"We were, I guess, fortunate because of the style of the game and obviously Brady (Quinn) and the guys are there."

The contest wasn't the most streamed college football game in the network's history, it was the most streamed football game ever, including the NFL.

"Some claim to hear Johnson calling it, "Big Nude Saturday' instead. I thought, there is no way this could actually be the case."