I'm going to say it again: Everyone wants to watch Mario Cristobal's Miami Hurricanes play on national television.

According to the ESPN PR Twitter account, 4.6 million people watched the Miami Hurricanes defeat the Clemson Tigers 41-13, which was enough to be the second most-watched game on Saturday, just behind Alabama versus Mississippi State, which drew 5.1 million viewers.

The game also peaked at 5.5 million people.



In Week 3, the Hurricanes drew 2.3 million viewers on a Friday night game against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, which ranked as the ninth most-watched game of the weekend.

The Hurricanes have been drawing viewership from all around the country, and I can understand why. This team is so much fun to watch--especially with the Malachi Toney and Darian Mensah duo going to work.

The team is on a bye-week before getting back onto the field to play against in-state rival, the Florida State Seminoles. The Canes and the Seminoles rivalry is one of the best in the country, so we can possibly see Miami crack the top-10 viewership for Week 7.

 

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Clemson also had a high profile game to start the season against LSU. If the Canes still had South Carolina on the schedule instead of an FCS team, we'd be up there as well. Or if we had a high profile game like Clemson to begin the season (say, against ND), we'd be a clear number 1.

 

The viewership of the UM ND game if we're both top 3 will be incredible.

If that happens it’ll be one of the highest rated games in the last 15 years.

Too many storylines to even list.

 

half of fsu numbers came because of bama. Believe that game was over 7 million

 

The viewership of the UM ND game if we're both top 3 will be incredible.

If Miami and ND are undefeated for that November 7, I'm calling it now, it was be the highest rated CFB regular season game in the last 10 to 15 years!

 

Any chance you could tell us how many hundred people watched FSU-UVa?

99 fans at the stadium, would be 100 but one fan was reading in the nosebleeds