Recapping what you already new, via Sports Media Watch. Because it means more when they say it since everyone knows I'm biased.

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2021/11...-football/

"A pair of Big Ten matchups delivered two of the season’s top audiences last weekend.

Last Saturday’s Michigan-Michigan State college football game averaged a 5.1 rating and 9.29 million viewers on FOX “Big Noon Saturday,” marking the highest rating and viewership of the season thus far. The previous highs were a 4.6 and 8.86 million for Georgia-Clemson on ABC on Labor Day weekend.

Excluding bowl and conference championship games, the Spartans’ win delivered the sixth-largest college football audience ever on FOX — and the largest excluding Ohio State games. It was the most-watched game between the rivals in at least a decade."

"The Big Ten delivered the top two college football audiences of last weekend, with Penn State-Ohio State averaging a 3.7 and 7.05 million on ABC’s Saturday Night Football "

"Despite facing World Series competition, the Buckeyes’ win delivered the eighth-largest audience of the season. Five of the ten most-watched games this season has involved at least one Big Ten team, more than any other conference."

In non Big Ten news,

"Ranking third, Georgia-Florida averaged a 3.2 and 6.12 million on the SEC on CBS "..." "it was their fourth-straight meeting to exceed six million viewers, a mark the rivalry exceeded only twice previously."

Georgia-Florida is one of the few SEC games to be scheduled by CBS before the season starts. This is probably why. Not even the Iron Bowl is scheduled before the season starts although it probably should.

"No other game last week cracked a 2.0 rating or three million viewers. "

There may have been smaller TV's and laptops on in CSNBBs's man caves but most of the TV's across the country, the man cave lineup was Michigan-Michigan State, Georgia-Florida, Penn State-Ohio State (and the World Series, which got 10.51 million on Saturday, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2021/11...ame-4-5/).

And finally,

"NBC rounded out the broadcast TV slate with a 1.3 and 2.35 million for North Carolina-Notre Dame, the network’s least-watched primetime Notre Dame game since a 2011 matchup against Maryland (2.1M)." To put that number in perspective, Notre Dame got beaten not only by the World Series and Penn State-Ohio State but by 48 Hours on CBS (2.573M).

https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showb...inals.html