CBS topped Saturday night with the 2017 edition of the annual SEC college football prime time rivalry of the “LSU Tigers versus Alabama Crimson Tide”. As a positive, it was the highest-rated, most-watched college football game of the week, and far outdrew its closest prime time competition of sports and non-sports programming. But on the […]
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Six of the nation’s current Top 10 teams will face off against each other on Nov. 11: The No. 1 team in the nation, the Georgia Bulldogs, head to one of their SEC rivals, the 10th ranked Auburn Tigers, in the late afternoon on CBS. Both No. 3 Notre Dame Fighting Irish at No. 7 […]
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The Oklahoma State Cowboys and Oklahoma Sooners meet for the 112th time Saturday, Nov. 4 at 4 p.m. ET on FS1 at Boone Pickens Stadium. The rivalry is called the Bedlam Series. The tag was first attached to the rivalry for the rowdiness involved in the teams’ wrestling duals, between teams and fans. Over the […]
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MLB’s “2017 World Series” between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros again won another evening in dominant fashion for Fox. On Saturday, Game 4 averaged 15.4 million viewers from 8:14-11:27 p.m. ET, down 8 percent from last year’s Indians-Cubs (16.705 million; best mark since 2009) but up 13 percent from Royals-Mets in 2015 […]
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This weekend, Fox televises one of the most anticipated college football games of the season when No. 2 Penn State Nittany Lions travels to Columbus, Ohio this week to face off against No. 6 Ohio State Buckeyes. It has been nearly 20 years since a Penn State football team sat atop the college football world, […]
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FS1 was the No. 1 network by all accounts on Saturday night, courtesy of the deciding Game 7 of the “2017 American League Championship Series” between the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros. It was the most-watched telecast in FS1 history, with an average of 9.924 million viewers, peaking at 11.758 million viewers from […]
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ABC’s “Saturday Night Football” features No. 19 Michigan at No. 2 Penn State (7:30 p.m.), as the Nittany Lions welcome the Wolverines into Beaver Stadium for their traditional white out game. After starting this season 6-0, the Nittany Lions have earned their highest Associated Press Poll ranking since 1999. The Wolverines were the last Big […]
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TBS was tops on this Saturday night, as it snapped ABC’s six-week Saturday prime time winning streak, courtesy of Game 1 of the “National League Championship Series” between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The game averaged 6.4 million viewers across television and live streaming, an increase of 56 percent over last year’s […]
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Alabama and Georgia, the two remaining unbeaten teams in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), will both play conference home games in primetime on Saturday, Oct. 14 with the Crimson Tide hosting Arkansas on ESPN (7:15 p.m.) and the Bulldogs welcoming in Missouri on SEC Network (7:30 p.m.). Alabama attempts to extend the nation’s longest home FBS […]