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10.404 Million viewers

Would have been good enough for the 6th highest all last year, not including the playoff games.
 
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Somewhere on an ND board, there's a mope saying the only reason anyone watched is because they were playing Miami.
 
I will keep writing this because it is the truth

Miami v ND is a great rivalry and showed be played every year. This is the game that America wants to see. Hate and love are the best emotions for sports viewing. And everyone who watches college football seems to either love or hate Miami and ND.
 
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Trav said:
Granted most of those are ND fans or people tuning in just because they hoped ND would lose, but all the exposure is good.
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Hurracanes said:
Yes. Also, it helps our stock with realignment discussions. Miami not only won the game on the field but won it with TV ratings and sold out stadium. Need to keep winning and drawing these numbers.
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Anyone who thinks further expansion of the SEC and BIG won’t happen because “the networks won’t pay for it” is gonna be proven bad wrong.

College Football is BY FAR the second most popular sport in America. It’s crushes almost everything in TV ratings outside of the NFL.

ESPN/ABC and FOX (along with NBC and CBS) are going to do everything po$$ible to keep control of the media rights.

Whether that’s enough to hold off a Netflix or Prime Video or Apple TV remains to be seen
 
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Empirical Cane said:
I'm surprised that big a gap between 1st/2nd...
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Yeah, I was thinking about this too. Few theories:

1. Texas & OSU are two of the largest schools in the country (aren’t they both in top 3 or 5?), so huge alumni base

2. Noon game right after the Corso final send-off, which they said a lot of people watched, and it was their most watched Gameday ever

3. Top 3 matchup featuring last year’s national champion v preseason #1

4. Just throwing this one out there, and it might be excuse be completely off base, but maybe people like Fox better? Who knows.
 
caneingville said:
Yeah, I was thinking about this too. Few theories:

1. Texas & OSU are two of the largest schools in the country (aren’t they both in top 3 or 5?), so huge alumni base

2. Noon game right after the Corso final send-off, which they said a lot of people watched, and it was their most watched Gameday ever

3. Top 3 matchup featuring last year’s national champion v preseason #1

4. Just throwing this one out there, and it might be excuse be completely off base, but maybe people like Fox better? Who knows.
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Agree

Yes, there are people that prefer Fox. I don’t think it would be a significant number of people that only watch CFB on Fox though. It’s more related to the first 3
 
Gennaker Cane said:
programminginsider.com

Sunday Ratings: Notre Dame-Miami Football on ABC Dominates in Prime Time

What follows are the Live + Same Day rating results for the night's network telecasts on Sunday, August 31, 2025: — Total Viewers (in millions): ABC: 9.470, CBS: 2.403, USA: 1.555, ESPN: 1.362, NBC: 1.098, ION:
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https://programminginsider.com/sund...iami-football-on-abc-dominates-in-prime-time/

Hopefully the link works on one of those- but our game had higher ratings than the LSU-Clemson game on Saturday night in primetime and about 1.3 million more viewers than last years SC-LSU Sunday Night Labor Day game. I can't find anything for any of the day game ratings so far, but will keep looking.
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If that will get us 5-0 through the Semenholes, then I am very excited about it.
 
JamesQuall said:
Agree

Yes, there are people that prefer Fox. I don’t think it would be a significant number of people that only watch CFB on Fox though. It’s more related to the first 3
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I agree.

I wasn’t thinking of it from a like / dislike perspective though. I was trying to recall what other games were on at noon that day, and I think there just weren’t many others on local channels at that same time, but most were smaller games on the cable networks. I was flipping around and am almost positive that Fox was the only local channel showing a game at the time. So that matters for people who don’t have cable, and also there really wasn’t any competition for that game.
 
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