Top in-demand college football games for 2023 per @StubHub:
— Kurt Badenhausen (@kbadenhausen) August 22, 2023
1. Ohio State @ Notre Dame 9/23
2. Ohio State @ Michigan 11/25
3. Texas @ Alabama 9/9
4. Iowa @ Penn State 9/23
5. Florida State vs LSU 9/3
6. USC @ Notre Dame 10/14
7. West Virginia @ Penn State 9/2
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.
- Ohio State — 5.80M
- Alabama — 5.11M
- Michigan — 4.37M
- Tennessee — 4.13M
- Georgia — 3.50M
- Notre Dame — 3.30M
- LSU — 3.22M
- Texas — 3.06M
- Penn State — 3.05M
- Clemson — 2.59M
- Florida — 2.57M
- Oregon — 2.21M
- TCU — 2.20M
- Southern Cal — 2.07M
- Florida State — 2.03M
- Nebraska — 1.98M
- Michigan State — 1.91M
- Texas A&M — 1.87M
- Maryland — 1.864M
- Auburn — 1.863M
- Arkansas — 1.80M
- Mississippi — 1.753M
- Oklahoma — 1.748M
- Oklahoma State — 1.68M
- UCLA — 1.591M
- Wisconsin — 1.587M
- Iowa — 1.50M
- Kentucky — 1.35M
- Baylor — 1.32M
- Kansas State — 1.23M
- Indiana — 1.19M
- Illinois — 1.17M
- Utah — 1.16M
- Washington — 1.15M
- Northwestern — 1.13M
- Mississippi State — 1.10M
- Minnesota — 1.05M
- BYU — 997K
- South Carolina — 990K
- Navy — 976K
- Washington State — 907K
- Iowa State — 882K
- NC State — 881K
- Purdue -870K
- California — 857K
- North Carolina — 849K
- Stanford — 846K
- Syracuse — 841K
- Georgia Tech — 837K
- Missouri — 793K
- West Virginia — 774K
- Kansas — 732K
- Army — 681K
- Texas Tech — 680K
- Cincinnati — 653K
- Pittsburgh — 650K
- Oregon State — 625K
- Rutgers — 618K
- Miami FL— 608K
- Wake Forest — 523K
- UCF — 510K
- Arizona — 506K
- Louisville — 496K
- Colorado State — 386K
- Tulane — 354K
- Boise State — 353K
- Colorado — 352.9K
- Air Force — 326K
- Utah State — 324K
- Boston College — 322K
- Arizona State — 314K
- SMU — 312K
- Toledo — 306K
- East Carolina — 305K
- Appalachian State — 298K
- Virginia Tech — 264K
- Marshall — 262K
- Houston — 242K
- Virginia — 237K
- Fresno State — 220K
- Ohio — 214K
- Connecticut — 212K
- San Diego State — 198K
- Western Michigan — 174K
- Memphis — 165K
- Tulsa — 162K
- Wyoming — 154K
- Central Michigan — 130K
- Georgia Southern — 125K
- Nevada — 116.4K
- Duke — 115.7K
- UTEP — 102K
- Temple — 92K
- New Mexico State — 86K
- South Florida — 80.8K
- Coastal Carolina — 80.6K
- Louisiana — 78K
- UAB — 71K
- Arkansas State — 69K
- Buffalo — 67K
- Bowling Green — 63K
- Ball State — 61K
- Kent State — 60K
- Georgia State — 55K
- San Jose State — 53K
- Miami OH — 49K
- Northern Illinois — 46K
- Hawaii — 43K
- Eastern Michigan — 33K
- Akron — 31K
- Old Dominion — 28K
- Texas State — 18.4K
- New Mexico — 17.5K
- Southern Miss — 16K
- Charlotte 14.8K
- Western Kentucky — 13.8K
- Florida Atlantic — 12K
- Louisiana Tech — 10K
- James Madison — 9K
The 2022 “4 million club”
Here are all of the games that broke 4 million viewers this season:
- Michigan at Ohio State — 17.14M
- Tennessee at Georgia — 13.06M
- Alabama at Tennessee — 11.56M
- Alabama at Texas — 10.60M
- Notre Dame vs. Ohio State — 10.53M
- Alabama at Mississippi — 8.71M
- Ohio State at Penn State — 8.27M
- Alabama at LSU — 7.58M
- Florida State vs. LSU — 7.55M
- Texas A&M at Alabama — 7.15M
- Army vs. Navy — 6.94M
- Florida at Florida State — 6.71M
- Notre Dame at Southern Cal, 6.68M
- Ohio State at Maryland — 6.60M
- Penn State at Michigan — 6.45M
- Auburn at Alabama — 6.27M
- Oregon vs. Georgia — 6.20M
- Alabama at Arkansas — 5.83M
- Florida at Georgia — 5.62M
- Michigan State at Michigan — 5.58M
- Florida at Tennessee — 5.57M
- Illinois at Michigan — 5.47M
- TCU at Texas — 5.03M
- NC State at Clemson — 4.98M
- Tennessee at South Carolina — 4.87M
- Clemson at Georgia Tech — 4.86M
- Ohio State at Northwestern — 4.76M
- Syracuse at Clemson — 4.75M
- Wisconsin at Ohio State — 4.59M
- Southern Cal at UCLA — 4.53M
- Georgia at Kentucky — 4.48M
- Tennessee at Pittsburgh — 4.46M
- Texas at Oklahoma State — 4.46M
- Ohio State at Michigan State — 4.44M
- Nebraska vs. Northwestern — 4.42M
- Maryland at Michigan — 4.38M
- Iowa at Ohio State — 4.38M
- TCU at Baylor — 4.35M
- Iowa State at TCU — 4.34M
- Kentucky at Florida — 4.33M
- Auburn at Georgia — 4.24M
- Michigan at Iowa — 4.20M
- Penn State at Auburn — 4.05M
- Kentucky at Tennessee — 4.04M
- Michigan at Indiana — 4.01M
There were 39 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, Army, Baylor, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa State, Mississippi, Navy, NC State, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Pittsburgh, South Carolina, Syracuse, Texas A&M, UCLA, Wisconsin