Audience Intelligence

College Football TV Ratings & Viewership Lab

Compare rated college football audiences by game, team, conference, network, and era using Sports Media Watch rows matched to CFBTrack games.

Rated Sample

9 games

2008 – 2021 with 7 rows still flagged for review.

Average Audience

10.9M

Median game is 8.92M across 9 seasons.

Audience Context

Rated-game rows are separated from schedule coverage so audience comparisons stay tied to measured broadcasts.

Most Watched

18.0M

Florida at Alabama on CBS.

Top Team Draw

Unavailable

Team draw rankings will appear once the rated sample is available.

Rated Games

9

Sports Media Watch audience rows matched to CFBTrack games.

Median Audience

8.92M

Average audience is 10.9M in the active scope.

10M+ Games

133

Eight-figure TV audiences in the rated-game sample.

Coverage Range

2008 – 2021

Audience rows are tracked separately from schedule-only media coverage.

Audience research

TV ratings and viewership lab

Use Sports Media Watch audience rows to compare games, teams, conferences, and network draw.

Early seasons include partial Sports Media Watch packages and selected articles, so year-over-year comparisons should account for coverage depth.
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Rated games

9

2008-2021 with 7 rows in review.

Average viewers

10.9M

Median audience is 8.92M.

Most watched

18.0M

Florida at Alabama

Million-plus games

9

0.0% of rated rows are postseason.

Team and network comparisons use matched rated-game rows from the active scope; regular-season filters use the dataset's regular season_type and team brand-lift baselines exclude direct head-to-head games.

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Biggest tracked game

18.0M

2009 Florida at Alabama on CBS

Top team draw

Alabama

10.9M average across 9 rated games

Best repeat matchup

24.6M

Alabama vs Clemson, 4 tracked games

Regular-season king

18.0M

2009 Florida at Alabama on CBS

10M+ club

4

Games reached at least eight-figure audiences

Top conference draw

Southeastern Conference

10.9M average by team appearance

Top outlet

CBS

10.9M average across 9 games

Conference audience

Conference-by-conference TV draw

Conference credit uses team appearances by season membership, so inter-conference games count once for each participant.

Top game
Southeastern Conference1810.9MFlorida at Alabama18 · 100.0%

Conference comparison

Conference leaders by research scope

Quick era and inventory slices for comparing which conferences rise when the sample changes.

All rated games

  1. Pacific-10 Conference5.66M
  2. Southeastern Conference4.53M
  3. Big Ten Conference3.26M
  4. NCAA Division I FBS independent schools3.07M

CFP era

  1. Southeastern Conference4.43M
  2. Big Ten Conference3.14M
  3. NCAA Division I FBS independent schools3.00M
  4. Atlantic Coast Conference2.38M

Regular season

  1. Pacific-10 Conference5.66M
  2. Southeastern Conference4.17M
  3. Big Ten Conference2.93M
  4. NCAA Division I FBS independent schools2.87M

Postseason

  1. Southeastern Conference8.48M
  2. Big Ten Conference8.04M
  3. Big 12 Conference6.33M
  4. Pac-12 Conference6.06M

Network TV

  1. Southeastern Conference6.41M
  2. Western Athletic Conference5.59M
  3. Pacific-10 Conference5.54M
  4. Big Ten Conference4.83M

Quick Answers

Media coverage quick answers

Games tracked
0
Seasons indexed
0
Broadcast partners
0
Latest streaming share
0.0%