This year's championship and two playoff games all surpassed the previous most-watched cable program, the 2011 BCS Championship between Oregon and Auburn, which attracted 27,316,000 viewers and a 15.3 rating.ĭespite the success of the playoff games that were played on New Year's Day (and attracted more than 28 million viewers each), things will be different next year. "The 2006 national championship game attracted 35.6 million viewers, a bigger audience than Monday's game," The Wall Street Journal's Steven Perlberg reports, "but it aired on ABC, a broadcast network, not a cable channel." Monday's record ratings only narrowly trail the most-watched college football championship on network television (between Southern California and Texas).
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Last night, the teams were divided by only a one-point margin in the third quarter before Ohio State pulled away late for a 42-20 win.Īs for how the ratings compare with NFL viewership, we'll note that TV By the Numbers reports, "Through three games, 2015 NFC Playoff games on FOX are averaging 39.3 million viewers." "That was a 21 percent increase over the ratings for last year's BCS National Championship between Florida State and Auburn, which was a far closer game," NPR's Nathan Rott reports.
The broadcast averaged 33.4 million viewers. Monday night's game between Oregon and Ohio State was a hit with viewers, as the first-ever college football playoff championship turned in the highest ratings in the history of both ESPN and cable TV. The first-ever college football playoff championship turned in record ratings, attracting an average of 33.4 million viewers.
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