Thursday, December 1, 2022

2022 TV Rating comparisons





Remaining Ratings have released:

SEC Champ: Georgia-LSU 10.89M
B1G Champ: Michigan-Purdue 10.7M
Big 12 Champ: KSU-TCU 9.41M
PAC Champ: USC-Utah 5.97M
ACC Champ: Clemson-UNC 3.47M
AAC Champ: Tulane-UCF 2.7M
MWC Champ: Fresno-Boise 1.94M
MAC Champ: Toledo-Ohio 721K
SWAC Champ: Southern-JSU 391K
Sun Belt Champ: Coastal-Troy 332K
   

https://medium.com/run-it-back-with-zach/which-college-football-programs-were-the-most-watched-in-2022-94eca4f6acbd

The 2022 “4 million club”

Here are all of the games that broke 4 million viewers this season:

  1. Michigan at Ohio State — 17.14M
  2. Tennessee at Georgia — 13.06M
  3. Alabama at Tennessee — 11.56M
  4. Alabama at Texas — 10.60M
  5. Notre Dame vs. Ohio State — 10.53M
  6. Alabama at Mississippi — 8.71M
  7. Ohio State at Penn State — 8.27M
  8. Alabama at LSU — 7.58M
  9. Florida State vs. LSU — 7.55M
  10. Texas A&M at Alabama — 7.15M
  11. Florida at Florida State — 6.71M
  12. Notre Dame at Southern Cal, 6.68M
  13. Ohio State at Maryland — 6.60M
  14. Penn State at Michigan — 6.45M
  15. Auburn at Alabama — 6.27M
  16. Oregon vs. Georgia — 6.20M
  17. Alabama at Arkansas — 5.83M
  18. Florida at Georgia — 5.62M
  19. Michigan at Michigan State — 5.58M
  20. Florida at Tennessee — 5.57M
  21. Illinois at Michigan — 5.47M
  22. TCU at Texas — 5.03M
  23. NC State at Clemson — 4.98M
  24. Tennessee at South Carolina — 4.87M
  25. Clemson at Georgia Tech — 4.86M
  26. Ohio State at Northwestern — 4.76M
  27. Syracuse at Clemson — 4.75M
  28. Wisconsin at Ohio State — 4.59M
  29. Southern Cal at UCLA — 4.53M
  30. Georgia at Kentucky — 4.48M
  31. Tennessee at Pittsburgh — 4.46M
  32. Texas at Oklahoma State — 4.46M
  33. Ohio State at Michigan State — 4.44M
  34. Nebraska vs. Northwestern — 4.42M
  35. Maryland at Michigan — 4.38M
  36. Iowa at Ohio State — 4.38M
  37. TCU at Baylor — 4.35M
  38. Iowa State at TCU — 4.34M
  39. Kentucky at Florida — 4.33M
  40. Auburn at Georgia — 4.24M
  41. Michigan at Iowa — 4.20M
  42. Penn State at Auburn — 4.05M
  43. Kentucky at Tennessee — 4.04M
  44. Michigan at Indiana — 4.01M

There were 37 teams that played in at least one game that cracked 4 million viewers:

8 — Ohio State

7 — Alabama, Michigan

6 — Tennessee

5 — Georgia

4 — Florida

3 — Auburn, Clemson, Kentucky, Penn State, TCU, Texas

2 — Florida State, Iowa, LSU, Maryland, Michigan State, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Southern Cal

1 — Arkansas, Baylor, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa State, Mississippi, NC State, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Pittsburgh, South Carolina, Syracuse, Texas A&M, UCLA, Wisconsin

Looking for data from previous years? Here is 2021, and here is 2015–19.

Ranking the most-watched college football programs in 2022

The numbers next to each school indicate the average number of viewers per week for a 12-week season.

Streaming numbers are included when available. Games that do not have available data are counted as zero.

  1. Ohio State — 5.80M
  2. Alabama — 5.11M
  3. Michigan — 4.37M
  4. Tennessee — 4.13M
  5. Georgia — 3.50M
  6. Notre Dame — 3.30M
  7. LSU — 3.22M
  8. Texas — 3.06M
  9. Penn State — 3.05M
  10. Clemson — 2.59M
  11. Florida — 2.57M
  12. Oregon — 2.21M
  13. TCU — 2.20M
  14. Southern Cal — 2.07M
  15. Florida State — 2.03M
  16. Nebraska — 1.98M
  17. Michigan State — 1.91M
  18. Texas A&M — 1.87M
  19. Maryland — 1.864M
  20. Auburn — 1.863M
  21. Arkansas — 1.80M
  22. Mississippi — 1.753M
  23. Oklahoma — 1.748M
  24. Oklahoma State — 1.68M
  25. UCLA — 1.591M
  26. Wisconsin — 1.587M
  27. Iowa — 1.50M
  28. Kentucky — 1.35M
  29. Baylor — 1.32M
  30. Kansas State — 1.23M
  31. Indiana — 1.19M
  32. Illinois — 1.17M
  33. Utah — 1.16M
  34. Washington — 1.15M
  35. Northwestern — 1.13M
  36. Mississippi State — 1.10M
  37. Minnesota — 1.05M
  38. BYU — 997K
  39. South Carolina — 990K
  40. Washington State — 907K
  41. Iowa State — 882K
  42. NC State — 881K
  43. Purdue -870K
  44. California — 857K
  45. North Carolina — 849K
  46. Stanford — 846K
  47. Syracuse — 841K
  48. Georgia Tech — 837K
  49. Missouri — 793K
  50. West Virginia — 774K
  51. Kansas — 732K
  52. Texas Tech — 680K
  53. Cincinnati — 653K
  54. Pittsburgh — 650K
  55. Oregon State — 625K
  56. Rutgers — 618K
  57. Miami FL— 608K
  58. Wake Forest — 523K
  59. UCF — 510K
  60. Arizona — 506K
  61. Louisville — 496K
  62. Navy — 397K*
  63. Colorado State — 386K
  64. Tulane — 354K
  65. Boise State — 353K
  66. Colorado — 352.9K
  67. Air Force — 326K
  68. Utah State — 324K
  69. Boston College — 322K
  70. Arizona State — 314K
  71. SMU — 312K
  72. Toledo — 306K
  73. East Carolina — 305K
  74. Appalachian State — 298K
  75. Virginia Tech — 264K
  76. Marshall — 262K
  77. Houston — 242K
  78. Virginia — 237K
  79. Fresno State — 220K
  80. Ohio — 214K
  81. Connecticut — 212K
  82. San Diego State — 198K
  83. Western Michigan — 174K
  84. Memphis — 165K
  85. Tulsa — 162K
  86. Wyoming — 154K
  87. Central Michigan — 130K
  88. Georgia Southern — 125K
  89. Nevada — 116.4K
  90. Duke — 115.7K
  91. Army — 103K*
  92. UTEP — 102K
  93. Temple — 92K
  94. New Mexico State — 86K
  95. South Florida — 80.8K
  96. Coastal Carolina — 80.6K







 In a bit of an upset, Florida-FSU took second place on Thanksgiving weekend in its special Black Friday primetime slot on ABC.

week 13 college football tv ratings


"This is the first time I remember ABC broadcasting in prime time on Black Friday and it paid off big time. Florida at Florida State got 6.711 million (courtesy of ShowBuzzDaily). The Arkansas-Missouri game wasn't posted yet. UCLA-California got 3.271 on FOX (boost from USA-England World Cup).

Next year, the rights for Florida State-Florida go to CBS. I'd have to believe their ratings will be higher than Missouri-Arkansas on Black Friday assuming the schools are willing to play on Black Friday again and considering their ratings on Black Friday it would be a good idea for them to do it. The last time Florida State-Florida aired on CBS was 2009. Normally the Iron Bowl airs on CBS on the Saturday of Rivalry weekend, that year the Iron Bowl aired on Black Friday. These days, you aren't going to tell Alabama to move so if Florida State-Florida wants to be on CBS they will have to be the ones to move. Once the SEC moves to ABC, they can air both games on Saturday again, especially with no Big Ten commitments. I think for next year it is a good move for the Florida schools to get on CBS and save us from getting stuck with Missouri-Arkansas again. The one issue for 2023 and future years is the Amazon Black Friday game, will that ruin ratings for games in the 3:30pm CBS slot?

Maybe it is the matchup (Florida-Florida State) but if I'm NBC I'm signing up for Black Friday prime time in 2023 and future years. They do have to get a good matchup though. Once CBS gets the Big Ten full time in 2024, will they program their Black Friday game for noon or 3:30pm? In 2023, I expect them to air a double header (they are contractually committed to the 3:30pm on Black Friday with the SEC and they might as well give the noon slot to the Big Ten although they also owe the MWC three slots as well). ABC can't air Florida State-Florida in 2023 but I'd imagine they'll be talking to schools (Texas?) to play in prime time in 2023. I'd do noon and prime time and give up the 3:30pm slot."


"Other tidbits from the SMW link (thank you TerryD).

"On a weekend dominated by Michigan-Ohio State, the second-biggest rivalry game was somewhat of a surprise.

Airing in a special primetime Black Friday timeslot, Florida-FSU averaged a 3.4 rating and 6.71 million viewers on ABC over the holiday weekend — the highest rated and most-watched college football game on the day after Thanksgiving since 2011, and ABC’s most-watched game on the date since 2005.

FSU’s win, which peaked with 7.1 million viewers, ranks as the most-watched game between the rivals in a decade (2012: 8.5M) and trailed only Michigan-Ohio State on FOX Saturday (17.14M) as the most-watched college football game of the weekend.

Notably, FSU played in the two most-watched games this season to include an ACC team, with their season opener against LSU holding the top spot (7.55M). No other game involving an ACC team cracked the five million mark."

I think if you're a neutral party in the ACC, you would rather Florida State go 12-0 than Clemson go 12-0. They'd have way more fans. It's certainly better to have a good Clemson than not (see 2021) but if the ACC really wants to become the "third football conference", they need Florida State to be back contending."




https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2022/11/sec-dominates-ratings-tennessee-georgia-alabama-lsu-college-football/

"Excluding bowl games, the Tigers’ win delivered college football’s largest cable audience since ESPN drew 8.35 million for Mississippi-FSU on Labor Day 2016 (8.35M)."

"ABC also drew a 1.3 and 2.23 million for Penn State-Indiana — also about half of what Michigan State-Purdue drew last year (2.5, ~4.4M) — and a mere 0.8 and 1.5 million for FSU-Miami in primetime. The audience for FSU-Miami, which aired in a crowded primetime slot opposite the World Series, Alabama-LSU and Clemson-Notre Dame, is the lowest for the rivalry in at least 20 seasons."

https://floridastate.forums.rivals.com/threads/six-million-viewers-for-fsu-uf.343029/

Huge numbers for our Friday night national spotlight game. It held the #1 slot in every age demographic for every half hour it was measured, from start to finish. Viewership peaked at 6 million (well, 5.99 million) at 10 PM with the low being 5.33 million at the 9:30 half hour.

https://programminginsider.com/friday-ratings-fox-sports-on-thanksgiving-weekend-continues-to-thrive-with-england-usa-world-cup-soccer-match/

8:00 PM ABC — Friday Night College Football Florida at Florida State Households: 3.1/9 (#1) Viewers: 5.43 million (#1), Adults 18-49: 1.0/9 (#1), Adults 18-34: 0.7/9 (#1), Adults 25-54: 1.4/9 (#1)


Read more: https://programminginsider.com/friday-ratings-fox-sports-on-thanksgiving-weekend-continues-to-thrive-with-england-usa-world-cup-soccer-match/



11/5 FSU Miami .8 rating 1.5 million viewers

ACC Game was #1 on TV Last Saturday

ADDENDUM:

CSNBBS user "OrangeDude" (a Syracuse fan) added this research:

It isn't very often an ACC Conference match-up was the Number One rated game of the week.

Excluding 2020 when ND was a member of the conference for that year and of course only two conferences played on a regular basis week-in and week-out these are the ACC match-ups that were #1.

2016 - Week 5 - Louisville/Clemson - 9.294M

2016 - Week 9 - Clemson/FSU - 5.380M

2017 - Week 5 - Clemson/VT - 4.693M


Even #2 is rare for the ACC

2014 - Week 2 - FSU/Miami - 8.74M

2014 - Week 4 - Clemson/FSU - 7.34M

2015 - Week 10 - FSU/Clemson - 7.513M

2016 - Week 3 - FSU/Louisville - 9.294M

2016 - Week 6 - FSU/Miami - 5.540M

2017 - Week 3 - Clemson/Louisville - 5.206M

2018 - Week 5 - Syracuse/Clemson - 4.617M

2019 - Week 3 - Clemson/Syracuse - 3.62M

2019 - Week 5 - Clemson/UNC - 4.40M



2022 TV Ratings - the P3

Best ACC TV Match-ups (2015-21)

On 2nd Thought: P3 Conference Games Only

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/

Week 4

FSU played BC in Tallahassee at 8PM on the ESPN ACCN.  Important note regarding ACCN from sportsmediawatch.com:

"ACC Network is not Nielsen rated, so none of those games have any data for them (same with SEC Network)."




 https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/











https://csnbbs.com/thread-954731.html

Notable Week 1 TV numbers:

ND-OSU on ABC (10.5M)
LSU-FSU on ABC (7.55M)
Oregon-Georgia on ABC (6.2M)
Colorado St-Michigan on ABC (3.9M)
Penn St-Purdue on FOX (3.5M)
WVU-Pitt on ESPN (3.2M)
Utah-Florida on ESPN (3.0M)


"Facts is facts"

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2. College Football
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3. other sports

https://www.on3.com/teams/notre-dame-fighting-irish/news/notre-dame-ohio-state-tv-viewership-espn-abc-irish-buckeyes-record-horseshow-ratings/

An average of 10.53 million viewers tuned in for the Irish’s 21-10 loss to the Buckeyes.

It was the most watched game of the weekend and the most watched game on ESPN’s networks since 2017. The viewership amounted to more than that of any 2021 regular season games outside of the 15.9 million viewers who watched Michigan beat Ohio State for the first time since 2011.

https://csnbbs.com/thread-954743.html

Tracking most watched games of the season and any ratings news.

Updated 9/7/22

Games with 5 Million or More Viewers:
Notre Dame at Ohio State, 9/3, 7:30pm, ABC, 10.531M
Florida State vs. LSU in New Orleans, 9/4, 7:30pm, ABC, 7.554M
Oregon vs. Georgia in Atlanta, 9/3, 3:30pm, 6.199M


https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018-college-football-tv-ratings/

https://www.onefootdown.com/2020/11/10/21559547/notre-dame-vs-clemson-was-most-watched-college-football-game-of-the-year-irish-tigers-acc-market-nd

In NBC Sports’ 30-year history of broadcasting Notre Dame Football games, Clemson-Notre Dame now ranks behind only the “Game of the Century” between No. 2 Notre Dame and No. 1 Florida State in 1993 (22.02 million viewers). The Fighting Irish’s 47-40 double-overtime victory over the nation’s top-ranked team is also the most-watched ND on NBC primetime game on record.

Following are the top-five ND on NBC games:







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