Sunday night’s double-overtime thriller between Notre Dame and Texas on ABC and WatchESPN delivered a total live audience measurement (TV + Streaming) of 11.093 million average viewers, the most-watched college football kickoff weekend game on record across all networks*. This bests the previous total audience record that had been set one year prior: ESPN’s Ohio State and Virginia Tech on September 7, 2015 (10.76 million).
The streaming audience for the Longhorns’ 50-47 victory set new ESPN records for a regular season college football game, with an average minute audience of 194,000 and a total of 786,000 unique viewers viewing 49.9 million minutes overall.
Sunday night’s ABC audience peaked at 13.522 million average viewers between 11 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. ET as the fourth quarter came to a conclusion and overtime began.
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“ABC Fall Preview” (ABC)
Women 18-34: 0.6/4
Men 18-34: 0.5/5
Women 18-49: 0.8/4
Men 18-49: 0.9/5
“College Football Pregame” (ABC)
Women 18-34: 0.8/5
Men 18-34: 1.0/7
Women 18-49: 1.0/5
Men 18-49: 1.6/9
“College Football: Notre Dame @ Texas” (ABC)
Women 18-34: 2.0/10
Men 18-34: 3.2/18
Women 18-49: 2.3/9
Men 18-49: 4.3/18
“Big Brother 18” (CBS)
Women 18-34: 1.2/6
Men 18-34: 0.7/4
Women 18-49: 1.6/7
Men 18-49: 1.1/5
“BrainDead” (CBS)
Women 18-34: 0.1/1
Men 18-34: 0.1/1
Women 18-49: 0.3/1
Men 18-49: 0.2/1
“NASCAR Sprint Cup Race: Bojangles’ Southern 500 (Darlington)” (NBC)
Women 18-34: 0.4/2
Men 18-34: 0.6/4
Women 18-49: 0.7/3
Men 18-49: 1.1/5
“Fear the Walking Dead” (AMC)
Women 18-34: 0.93
Men 18-34: 1.04
Women 18-49: 1.22
Men 18-49: 1.25
“Talking Dead” (AMC)
Women 18-34: 0.38
Men 18-34: 0.32
Women 18-49: 0.46
Men 18-49: 0.43
“The Last Ship” (TNT)
Women 18-34: 0.26
Men 18-34: 0.22
Women 18-49: 0.45
Men 18-49: 0.51
“Murder in the First” (TNT)
Women 18-34: 0.17
Men 18-34: 0.11
Women 18-49: 0.30
Men 18-49: 0.24
“Power” (Starz)
Women 18-34: 0.82
Men 18-34: 0.66
Women 18-49: 0.98
Men 18-49: 0.77
“Survivor’s Remorse” (Starz)
Women 18-34: 0.30
Men 18-34: 0.26
Women 18-49: 0.36
Men 18-49: 0.33
“The Strain” (FX)
Women 18-34: 0.24
Men 18-34: 0.42
Women 18-49: 0.37
Men 18-49: 0.46
“MLB Baseball: Washington @ N.Y. Mets” (ESPN)
Household rating: 0.60
Women 18-34: 0.15
Men 18-34: 0.25
Women 18-49: 0.18
Men 18-49: 0.32
“U.S. Open Tennis: Round of 16” (ESPN2)
Household rating: 0.63
Women 18-34: 0.11
Men 18-34: 0.16
Women 18-49: 0.15
Men 18-49: 0.21
What follows are the top 100 most-watched shows in prime time on cable (by order of network) for Sunday, September 4: