Biggest tracked game
34.1M
2014 Oregon at Ohio State on ESPN 'Megacast'
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
5,328 games
2008 – 2025 with 7 rows still flagged for review.
Average Audience
2.35M
Median game is 1.37M across 18 seasons.
Audience Context
Rated-game rows are separated from schedule coverage so audience comparisons stay tied to measured broadcasts.
Most Watched
34.1M
Oregon at Ohio State on ESPN 'Megacast'.
Top Team Draw
Unavailable
Team draw rankings will appear once the rated sample is available.
Rated Games
5,328
Sports Media Watch audience rows matched to CFBTrack games.
Median Audience
1.37M
Average audience is 2.35M in the active scope.
10M+ Games
133
Eight-figure TV audiences in the rated-game sample.
Coverage Range
2008 – 2025
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.
All rated games5,328 gamesCFP era4,636 gamesRegular season4,848 gamesPostseason480 games10M+ club133 gamesNetwork TV1,565 games
Rated games
5,328
2008-2025 with 7 rows in review.
Average viewers
2.35M
Median audience is 1.37M.
Most watched
34.1M
Oregon at Ohio State
Million-plus games
3,102
9.0% 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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Top team draw
Alabama
8.29M average across 178 rated games
Best repeat matchup
24.6M
Alabama vs Clemson, 4 tracked games
Regular-season king
20.0M
2011 LSU at Alabama on CBS
10M+ club
133
Games reached at least eight-figure audiences
Top conference draw
Pacific-10 Conference
5.66M average by team appearance
Top outlet
ESPN
2.45M average across 1426 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific-10 Conference | 8 | 5.66M | Oregon at USC | 0 · 0.0% |
| Southeastern Conference | 1,593 | 4.53M | Alabama at Georgia | 95 · 47.5% |
| Big Ten Conference | 1,654 | 3.26M | Oregon at Ohio State | 52 · 26.0% |
| NCAA Division I FBS independent schools | 343 | 3.07M | Notre Dame at Alabama | 6 · 3.0% |
| Big East Conference | 42 | 2.60M | Cincinnati at Pittsburgh | 0 · 0.0% |
| Atlantic Coast Conference | 1,309 | 2.42M | Oregon at Florida State | 17 · 8.5% |
| Western Athletic Conference | 6 | 2.37M | Oregon State at Boise State | 0 · 0.0% |
| Pac-12 Conference | 1,109 | 2.25M | Oregon at Ohio State | 12 · 6.0% |
| Big 12 Conference | 1,498 | 2.15M | Georgia at Oklahoma | 15 · 7.5% |
| Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference | 7 | 1.16M | James Madison at North Dakota State | 0 · 0.0% |
| American Athletic Conference | 905 | 980,056.354 | Cincinnati at Alabama | 2 · 1.0% |
| Mountain West | 59 | 855,491.525 | North Dakota State at Colorado | 0 · 0.0% |
| Pac-12 | 62 | 816,887.097 | Arizona State at Fresno State | 0 · 0.0% |
| Mountain West Conference | 491 | 806,052.953 | Penn State at Boise State | 1 · 0.5% |
| Ohio Valley Conference | 3 | 696,333.333 | Jacksonville State at LSU | 0 · 0.0% |
| Conference USA | 297 | 689,195.286 | Liberty at Oregon | 0 · 0.0% |
| Mid-American Conference | 507 | 627,309.665 | Western Michigan at Wisconsin | 0 · 0.0% |
| American Athletic | 37 | 571,216.216 | Louisiana at UTSA | 0 · 0.0% |
Conference comparison
Conference leaders by research scope
Quick era and inventory slices for comparing which conferences rise when the sample changes.
All rated games
- Pacific-10 Conference5.66M
- Southeastern Conference4.53M
- Big Ten Conference3.26M
- NCAA Division I FBS independent schools3.07M
CFP era
- Southeastern Conference4.43M
- Big Ten Conference3.14M
- NCAA Division I FBS independent schools3.00M
- Atlantic Coast Conference2.38M
Regular season
- Pacific-10 Conference5.66M
- Southeastern Conference4.17M
- Big Ten Conference2.93M
- NCAA Division I FBS independent schools2.87M
Postseason
- Southeastern Conference8.48M
- Big Ten Conference8.04M
- Big 12 Conference6.33M
- Pac-12 Conference6.06M
Network TV
- Southeastern Conference6.41M
- Western Athletic Conference5.59M
- Pacific-10 Conference5.54M
- Big Ten Conference4.83M