ABC Scores Best College Football Opening Weekend With 8.6 Million Viewers Across 4 Games

ABC Scores Best College Football Opening Weekend With 8.6 Million Viewers Across 4 Games

ABC scored its best college football opening weekend on record with an average 8.6 million viewers tuning in across four games. Of the four games, three drew in over 10 million viewers, marking the first time ESPN networks have reached that milestone in a single weekend. The Sunday matchup between Notre Dame and Miami drew 10.8 million viewers and peaked with 11.8 million viewers — also marking ABC’s second-best Sunday Opener on record — while S…

3 ABC Games Top 10M Each in ESPN’s Record CFB Weekend

The network’s four college football games on Saturday and Sunday averaged 8.6 million viewers, which marks its most-watched opening weekend.

College football Week 1 shatters viewership record across all networks

Week 1 of the 2025 college football season is over, and it generated some of the most significant buzz around college football’s first week ever. There were massive expectations, highlighted by three top-10 matchups. It also lived up to the hype from a viewership perspective, with the number of minutes viewed well surpassing the previous record of 14.5 billion. Monday’s game between North Carolina and TCU has not been calculated yet, but the exp…

College Football Usage and Production Report: Week 1

This interactive tool puts a wealth of college football data at your fingertips. Dive into all the numbers from Week 1, including high-level snap counts, coverage data and more.