Top 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses

 

Largest Buyouts Ever

 FSU has to learn college football has changed.   Spend money on your roster, not on mid football coaches.   NFL doesn't do this BS like this.

Mike Norvell's firing at Florida State becomes the 3rd LARGEST buyout ever for a fired college football coach Jimbo Fisher's $77.6M buyout at Texas A&M remains the largest ever. https://t.co/u2pgoMw5tR

— The Next Round (@NextRoundLive) November 2, 2026

2026 Blue Blood

This is a representation of college football history with hours of research that will update after each season. There is no governing body to make BLUE BLOOD status official and in 100 years this will look entirely different. The model is built and we’ll discuss it annually. 🏈 https://t.co/sThz3yFvzp

— MoneyMD (@50ElevenTimes) August 14, 2026

National TV Trends for CFB

 

College football total TV viewership through week 9: https://t.co/iDtOYjySIl

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) November 4, 2026

ACC college football total TV viewership through week 7 with network frequency: https://t.co/tCfPErVmyF

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) October 21, 2026

College football average TV viewership after Week 6: https://t.co/QUZfjHdBoV

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) October 15, 2026

Top ten network time slots for college football average 📺 viewership so far this year: https://t.co/yNklv0wojK

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) October 16, 2026

College football average 📺viewership by network so far this year: https://t.co/AhcSj0FA6i

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) October 16, 2026

Snapshot of college football TV viewership after Week 5: https://t.co/UGPGn51Hsq

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) October 7, 2026

Top 12 college football total 📺 viewership leaders after Week 5: Ohio St: 27.9M Alabama: 26.0M Texas: 26.0M Ole Miss: 24.2M LSU: 22.7M Michigan: 22.4M Texas A&M: 16.3M Clemson: 15.4M Notre Dame: 15.3M Florida: 15.2M Tennessee: 14.9M Florida St: 13.9M

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) October 7, 2026

Week 5 of @ESPNCFB delivered 3 of the 4 most-watched games across all nets 📈 🏈 @AlabamaFTBL-@HailStateFB: 5.1M viewers 🏈 @CanesFootball-@ClemsonFB: 4.6M 🏈 @GatorsFB-@MizzouFootball: 4.4M 🏈 @AuburnFootball-@Vol_Football & @NDFootball-@UNCFootball: 3M each https://t.co/9iBAE2u0ki

— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) October 6, 2026

The Big Ten is winning National Championships and making more TV money than the SEC. But there is a growing problem...

The widening gap in TV ratings and the quality of the TV product itself, compared to the SEC, has many hitting the panic button.https://t.co/QybDxLb8wF pic.twitter.com/Mt38lrpFsk

— Ben Koo (@bkoo) October 1, 2026

Current college football total 📺 viewership leaders after Week 4:

Texas: 26.0M
Ole Miss: 24.1M
LSU: 22.4M
Ohio St: 22.0M
Alabama: 21.0M
Michigan: 18.3M
Texas A&M: 15.2M
Florida St: 13.2M
Kentucky: 13.0M
Notre Dame: 12.3M

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) October 1, 2026

NEW: College Football television ratings are down 11% from the first month of the 2025 season, per FOS📉

But a source with knowledge of Disney’s viewership data tells @AndyStaples that SEC minutes watched are up 41% year-over-year.

Story: https://t.co/l50VluAJde pic.twitter.com/B3QZNrn5GK

— On3 (@On3) October 2, 2026

2026 TV Ratings

ACC college football total TV viewership through week 9: https://t.co/i1ktLHvCN8

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) November 4, 2026

NEW: Most-watched College Football games of Week 7📺 https://t.co/BDD53Qvb9n

— On3 (@On3) October 21, 2026

ACC college football TV viewership through week 6 with network frequency https://t.co/2eXz54VmOQ

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) October 15, 2026

Current 📺 viewership among ACC schools after Week 6: FSU: 16.51M Clemson: 15.39M UNC: 13.46M Louisville: 9.98M Miami: 9.81M Pitt: 6.86M GT: 6.85M SMU: 5.73M Stanford: 5.11M NC St: 4.47M UVA: 4.31M Wake: 4.26M VT: 3.53M Cal: 2.87M BC: 2.34M Syracuse: 1.73M Duke: 1.23M

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) October 15, 2026

 

Most-watched Week 6 games, per Nielsen: UGA-Bama (ABC): 12.4M* Texas-OU (ABC): 9.8M IU-Nebraska (FOX): 6.7M A&M-Mizzou (ABC): 3.4M UCLA-Ore (CBS): 3.1M USC-Penn St (NBC): 2.9M FSU-Lou (ESPN): 2.7M - Fri. LSU-Ky (ESPN): 2.2M Iowa-Wash (FOX): 2M - Fri. * 2nd-highest of season.

— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) October 14, 2026

The avg viewership on Friday night ESPN has been week 1-6 about 2-2.3M

Known ESPN Friday night (or primetime Friday) viewership examples, 2026 Weeks 1–6

• Miami at Stanford (Week 1,
• : ~2.0 million.
• Miami at Wake Forest ): 2.3 million
• Pitt at Virginia Tech (Week 5, Friday): ~2.4 million.
• Florida State at Louisville (Week 6, Friday primetime): 2.7 million.

Week 4 ESPN Friday night viewership numbers (September 25, 2026):

• Navy at UAB (7 p.m. ET on ESPN): 1.188 million (also reported as ~1.19 million).
• Clemson at California (10:30 p.m. ET on ESPN): 1.29 million.

So right now, it looks like FSU’s Friday night game is the highest rated so far.
.. And miami has had 2 Friday solo games.

Current 📺 viewership among ACC schools after Week 5: Clemson: 15.42M FSU: 13.86M UNC: 11.62M Miami: 9.65M Louisville: 7.29M GT: 6.56M SMU: 5.83M Pitt: 4.98M UVA: 4.17M NC St: 4.15M Wake: 3.94M VT: 3.42M Stanford: 3.38M Cal: 2.83M BC: 2.34M Syracuse: 1.65M Duke: 0.87M

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) October 6, 2026

UVA linear TV viewership so far this season: Week 0 - NC State (ESPN) - 3,200,000 Week 3 - WVU (ACCN) - 202,726 Week 4 - Delaware (ACCN) - 87,901 Week 5 - FSU (ESPN2) - 670,000

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) October 7, 2026

Current 📺 viewership among ACC schools after Week 4:

FSU: 13.19M
Clemson: 10.78M
UNC: 8.64M
Louisville: 7.14M
GT: 6.56M
SMU: 5.49M
Miami: 5.02M
NC St: 4.00M
Wake: 3.79M
UVA: 3.50M
Stanford: 3.24M
Cal: 2.68M
Pitt: 2.55M
BC: 1.99M
Syracuse: 1.50M
VT: 0.99M
Duke: 0.87M

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) September 30, 2026

Alabama vs South Carolina got 2.9 million views. FSU vs Alabama had 9 million. But yeah it’s all Alabama fans https://t.co/sYUL9hO3He

— Stephen (@rangernole5) September 30, 2026

Current 📺 viewership among ACC schools after Week 3:

FSU: 13.04M
Clemson: 9.49M
UNC: 8.64M
Louisville: 6.12M
GT: 5.68M
SMU: 5.34M
Miami: 4.47M
NC St: 3.76M
UVA: 3.35M
Wake: 2.77M
Pitt: 2.55M
Stanford: 2.36M
BC: 1.84M
Syracuse: 1.50M
Cal: 1.39M
Duke: 0.87M
VT: 0.84M

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) September 22, 2026

The FSU Bama game still drew 7 Million plus AFTER a long lightening delay (2 actually)

Week 3 belonged to @ESPNCFB 🏈

✅ Top 5 most-watched games
✅ Won every Saturday window
✅ @LSUfootball-@OleMissFB (10.9M viewers) topped all nets, outperforming the nearest competitor by 237%
✅ 66% of total viewing share pic.twitter.com/OjLG8DFUtK

— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) September 22, 2026

Current 📺 viewership among ACC schools after Week 2:

FSU: 6.03M
Clemson: 5.90M
GT: 5.53M
UNC: 5.05M
Louisville: 4.84M
SMU: 4.07M
NC St: 3.36M
UVA: 3.20M
Miami: 2.18M
Stanford: 2.18M
BC: 1.84M
Pitt: 1.35M
Cal: 1.23M
Duke: 0.64M
VT: 0.52M
Wake: 0.43M
Syracuse: 0.30M

— Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) September 16, 2026

Your final Week 1 TV ratings, per Nielsen:

ND-Wis. (NBC): 8.1M
LSU-Clemson (ABC): 5.8M
Wash-Wash St (NBC): 5.1M
Oregon-Boise St (CBS): 4.8M
Lou-Ole Miss (ABC): 4.7M
Baylor-Auburn (ABC): 4.2M
Mich-WMU (NBC): 4.1M
FSU-SMU (ESPN): 4.1M

Sunday doubleheader paid off big for NBC.

— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) September 10, 2026

https://247sports.com/college/florida-state/board/36/contents/viewership-numbers-for-fsusmu-289751283/?page=1

https://www.on3.com/boards/threads/have-the-tv-numbers-for-monday-night-been-announced-yet.8979882/#post-189485201

*Remember that FSU was the only one of this bunch that was on ESPN cable/streaming only… and the game was on a return to work night and 1 hour 1/2 late. The game went to 1:00am-ish. All the others were on OTA networks.

Your final Week 1 TV ratings, per Nielsen: ND-Wis. (NBC): 8.1M LSU-Clemson (ABC): 5.8M Wash-Wash St (NBC): 5.1M Oregon-Boise St (CBS): 4.8M Lou-Ole Miss (ABC): 4.7M Baylor-Auburn (ABC): 4.2M Mich-WMU (NBC): 4.1M FSU-SMU (ESPN): 4.1M

📈📈📈 pic.twitter.com/UkMeYI7upu

— The CW Sports (@TheCW_Sports) September 2, 2026

FSU season-opening win sets CW viewership record

Florida State’s season-opening win over New Mexico State did more than put the Seminoles at 1-0, it also delivered a record audience for The CW.

The Week 0 matchup averaged 1.96 million viewers in primetime, making it the most-watched sports broadcast in The CW’s history, according to Nielsen Panel + Big Data figures released by Nexstar Media Group on Wednesday.

Viewership peaked at 2.4 million between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m. ET as Florida State pulled away for a 34-17 victory at Doak Campbell Stadium. The broadcast also drew 718,000 viewers in the Adults 25-54 demographic, another network record for a sports event.

The game’s performance extended beyond The CW’s own benchmarks. According to Nexstar, Florida State-New Mexico State was the second-strongest primetime broadcast of the night among Adults 25-54, outperforming every primetime program on ABC, CBS and NBC in that demographic.

Updated Week 0/1 CFB TV Viewers in West

5.50M—WSU-Washington (NBC)
4.83M—Boise St-Oregon (CBS)
3.73M—Colorado-Ga Tech (ESPN)
1.98M—Miami-Stanford (ESPN)
1.96M—NMSU at FSU (CW)
1.86M—SJSU at USC (NBC)
1.69M—Ore St-Houston (ESPN)
1.65M—Memphis-UNLV (FOX)
1.32M—Fresno St-USC (FOX)…

— SuperWest Sports (@SuperWestSports) September 11, 2026

https://247sports.com/college/florida-state/board/36/contents/game-1-drew-nearly-2m-on-the-cw-289433585/?page=1

Nielsen measured viewership for the B12 & ACC during the 2025 season

Week 12 & Week 13 College Football TV Ratings

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Largest Buyouts Ever

One of the impacts of FSU regularly having weak ADs (often due to backwoods presidents wanting to run athletics) is  signing horrible contracts.   I hope FSU doesn't do it again.