The 2026 College Football National Championship delivered massive numbers.
The title game featuring Miami and Indiana drew 30.1 million viewers, with a peak of 33.2 million, according to viewership data. Even with a loss in the national championship, it’s still impressing numbers.
Those numbers made it the second most-watched College Football Playoff National Championship game ever, and the second best cable telecast of all time. It also became the most-watched non-NFL sporting event since Game 7 of the 2016 World Series.
If that’s not impressive enough, this year’s National Championship pulled in 8 million more viewers than last year’s game. Not bad, especially considering a lot of Hurricanes fans probably skipped last year anyway, it featured Ohio State and Notre Dame, two teams Miami fans HATE.
The U still carries real weight. Win or lose, when Miami is involved, people watch, and this championship game was another reminder of that.
)..so I would milk this for all it’s worth at this point.
