With @NCAASoftball Regionals beginning Friday, look back at the most-watched games of 2022
— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) May 20, 2022
🥎 UCLA/FSU & OU/OSU were the most-watched games of the regular season
🥎 #ACCSB, #SECSB & #Big12SB were tops on Championship Saturday pic.twitter.com/xuS58YZ4BZ
Virginia Tech- Tennessee last night was watched by 343k viewers according to @ShowBuzzDaily on ESPN making it 2nd most watch regular season softball game of the season behind only UCLA-FSU in Clearwater in feb ( 620k). @ascarborough was part of both telecasts!
— Eric Lopez (@EricLopezELO) April 21, 2022
🥎 College softball viewership update 🥎
— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) February 24, 2022
The final game of the 2022 @SPCEliteInvite between @UCLASoftball & @FSU_Softball averaged 620K viewers
The most-viewed regular season college softball game since 2015#NCAASoftball pic.twitter.com/WWLmy4FcEt
That is up significantly from last year’s primetime game between Florida State and Tennessee which drew 291,000 viewers.
That is impressive considering it was on at the same time as the NBA All-Star game which drew big numbers and was up in viewership. UCLA -Florida State on ESPN2 dominated head-to-head with Boxing and UFC programming on ESPN.
2019 Noles-Vols game most watched opening season College Softball telecast on the ESPN2
The game was still the most watched ESPN2 telecast. Here are the performance numbers from previous seasons on ESPN2.
2019- Tennessee vs Florida State – 291,000
2018- Texas A&M at Florida- 228,000
2017- Auburn at Florida – 226,000
2016- Florida at LSU – 250,000
The Noles and Vols were the most watched TV program on ESPN2 on Sunday. The game outrated Men’s College Basketball games like Memphis at UCF (Sat 6pm on ESPN2 212,000 viewers) and Oklahoma at TCU (ESPN2 Noon 268,000 viewers). The game also had more viewers than both NHL’s games that aired on NBC Sports Network on Monday night including the Tampa Bay Lightning versus Columbus Bluejackets broadcast gaining 281,000 viewers while the Boston Bruins versus San Jose Sharks game saw 184,000 viewers. Numbers for games that aired on ESPNU during the tournament in Clearwater were not available.
Overall Softball TV Viewers are up from last season for all ESPN Softball telecasts.
Top 5 Most Watched Softball Telecasts to date in 2018:
1- Arizona at Oregon April 7th on ESPN : 285,000 viewers
2- Tennessee at South Carolina March 24th on ESPN2 : 269,000
3- Oklahoma at Baylor March 31th on ESPN : 251,000
4- Florida at Alabama April 8 on ESPN 2 : 242,000
5- Texas A&M at Florida March 25 on ESPN 2 : 228,000
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