Last night ABC dominated primetime with a preliminary 4.4 adult 18-49 rating for Notre Dame at USC. The convincing victory for the Fighting Irish sealed a perfect 12-0 undefeated season and reserved a spot in the national championship game in January. The game’s rating will go up to around a 5.1 in the official nationals when the west coast viewing of the live telecast is properly counted Tuesday morning, making this the highest-rated regular season college football game by far this fall.
Over on FOX, Stanford at UCLA struggled to a sad 0.5 rating Saturday night in the preliminary fast nationals, destined for a 0.7 or 0.8 in the official nationals in a few days. That will be enough to beat the 0.5 rating from 8-11 pm on CBS (for a Made in Jersey burned-off original episode, a repeat NCIS and a 48 Hours episode) but not enough to catch NBC’s 0.9 rating for a repeat of the awful Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. (It still is utterly baffling why anyone would choose to watch a sub-standard motion picture on television interrupted by more than a dozen commercial breaks — each up to four minutes long.)
Primetime Saturday Sports Ratings Past Several Weeks (Adults 18-49)
Nov 17: ABC Stanford at Oregon 2.8…………FOX Oklahoma at West Virginia 0.9
Nov 10: ABC Notre Dame at Boston College 1.8……..FOX Kansas State at TCU 0.9
Nov 3: CBS Alabama at LSU 4.0……..FOX Oregon at USC 1.5……..ABC Oklahoma State at Kansas State 0.7
Oct 27: ABC Notre Dame at Oklahoma 2.9……….FOX World Series Game 3 2.8
Oct 20: ABC Florida State at Miami OR Baylor at Texas 1.8……….FOX Kansas State at West Virginia 0.8
Oct 13: ABC NASCAR Sprint Cup Bank of America 500 1.3………..FOX USC at Washington 0.8
Oct 6: FOX West Virginia at Texas 1.5……..ABC Nebraska at Ohio State 1.5……….NBC Miami at Notre Dame 1.1
On Monday in SKEDBALL we will have a look at the sports ratings from the weekend afternoon time periods during a very busy Thanksgiving weekend.
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