ESPN’s presentation of College Football Playoff National Championship Championship — the first ever to go to overtime — between Georgia and Alabama (8 p.m. ET, Jan 8) averaged 28,443,000 viewers on its Nielsen-rated networks (ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU as part of its MegaCast production), up 13 percent from last year. The massive audience for Alabama’s […]
The Alabama Crimson Tide emerged atop the college football world once again when their quarterback Tua Tagovailoa connected to wide receiver DeVonta Smith for a game-winning 41-yard touchdown pass in overtime to defeat the Georgia Bulldogs 26-23 in the College Football Playoff National Championship on Jan. 8, 2018. The game was televised on many of […]
The nearly 27 million viewers for the Georgia-Oklahoma Rose Bowl Game simulcast on ESPN and ESPN2 is the fifth most-watched cable telecast of all time. As a result, the College Football Playoff system now represents four of the five most-watched cable telecasts of all time. ESPN’s presentation of the entire New Year’s Six averaged nearly […]
Forty college football games are slated to take place from Dec. 16 thru Jan. 8 for the 2017-18 bowl season, culminating in the College Football Playoff National Championship on Jan. 8 from the recently-opened Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga. In prime time on Jan. 1, one of the College Football Playoff Semifinal games will feature […]
CBS and NBC once again shared Tuesday night victory — CBS among total viewers, NBC among all key adult demos. ESPN’s “College Football Playoff: Top 25” (9:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.) delivered a Nielsen total live audience of 3,785,000 viewers and a 2.26 household rating, the best viewership ever in the more than 20 Tuesday […]
ESPN definitively won this Monday all around with the Clemson Tigers’ thrilling 35-31 victory over the No. 1-seeded Alabama Crimson Tide in the “College Football Playoff National Championship.” The game — which ended at 12:36 a.m. ET — delivered a total live audience across the multi-network MegaCast (TV feeds + streaming) of 26.029 million viewers. […]
The Clemson Tigers upset the Alabama Crimson Tide and won the college football national championship, 35-31, in Tampa early Tuesday morning (Jan. 10). In a wild second half, Clemson scored with 1 second left to stun Alabama. Clemson was led by its star quarterback, Deshaun Watson, who threw for 420 yards despite facing a defense […]
ESPN dominated New Year’s Eve prime time with the nightcap College Football Playoff Semifinal, Fiesta Bowl: Ohio State vs. Clemson (19.24 million on ESPN and ESPN2 combined) which was up 3 percent in TV-only viewers from the year-ago prime time Semifinal of the Cotton Bowl. The late afternoon Semifinal Peach Bowl: Alabama vs. Washington (19.34 […]
The match-ups for the 2016-17 college football bowl season are set. ESPN will deliver the third year of the College Football Playoff Semifinals on New Year’s Eve Saturday, Dec. 31. At 3pm eastern, the SEC champion Alabama Crimson Tide and the Pac-12 champion Washington Huskies meet at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, Ga. for the […]
