Arkansas-Tennessee draws big ratings for ABC as top game of Week 6
Arkansas’ top-10 takedown of Tennessee got the biggest ratings of any game during a wild and wacky Week 6.
The Razorbacks’ 19-14 victory in front of a raucous crowd in Fayetteville drew 5.3 million viewers in primetime on ABC, with a peak viewership of 6.8 million viewers. It was the top-rated college football game across all networks on Saturday.
ABC & @ESPNCFB won all four Wk 6 Saturday windows, including scoring the top 2 telecasts across all networks
@Vol_Football–@RazorbackFB | 5.3M viewers
@AuburnFootball–@GeorgiaFootball | 4.9M
@MizzouFootball–@AggieFootball | 3.3M
@CanesFootball–@CalFootball | 1.9M pic.twitter.com/xJRhOudNdI— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) October 8, 2024
The 2nd-highest-rated game on Saturday was also an SEC matchup, as Georgia’s victory over Auburn in Athens drew 4.9 million viewers on ABC during the 3:30 p.m. ET window. It was the top-rated afternoon game and was the No. 2 telecast across all networks on Saturday. The peak viewership for Auburn-Georgia was 5.4 million.
The top-rated noon game also belonged to the SEC, with Texas A&M’s dominant victory over Missouri drawing 3.3 million viewers on ABC, with a peak viewership of 3.6 million.
The top-rated late-night game was, as expected, that crazy Miami-Cal game that didn’t end in Berkeley until the wee hours of the morning on the East Coast. The ratings were helped by the Hurricanes’ furious 4th-quarter comeback from a 20-point deficit for a 39-38 victory. The game drew 1.9 million viewers on ESPN, with a peak viewership of 2.4.
The ESPN College GameDay crew was in Berkeley for that Miami-Cal showdown, and the ratings were strong despite the game not kicking off until about 10:30 p.m. ET.