2025 College Football TV Ratings

[cycloneworld]

A monster weekend for college football. Texas-OSU had a massive 16 million viewers.

Slightly surprised but shows the power of Fox, ISU-South Dakota was the third most watched college football game last Saturday with over 3 million viewers. ISU-K-State was only 4 million in Week 0.

2025 College Football Week 1 Viewership

A full list of Nielsen measured viewership of College Football games during Week 0 of the 2025 NCAA Division 1 College Football season.

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[ClonerJams]

Pleasantly surprised it did that well considering the opponent and FSU - Alabama was on at the same time

 

[peteypie]

Kind of impressive more eyeballs than Auburn at Baylor, and UCLA vs Utah on the same network. Granted one of those was a Friday game, but still

 

[BigJCy]

1.15 million watched Iowa State-Arizona:

 

[cycloneworld]

1.15 million watched Iowa State-Arizona:

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That’s not too bad considering 19 million other people were watching the two biggest games of the week at the exact same time.

 

[Cloneon]

It'll be really interesting to see the numbers at the end of the season. I suspect a large portion of the viewership are still fans of teams in contention. IMO, as the season wears on the conference that is most competitive top-to-bottom will see its numbers more consistent.

 

[BigJCy]

1.44 million watched us lose:

 

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[HouClone]

Good ol' Stew to bag on the Big 12. Sorry you lost Stew in your Pac homerism vs the Big 12.

 

[ZorkClone]

Oof this next TV deal is going to be a bloodbath again for the Big 12

 

[StPaulCyclone]

Oof this next TV deal is going to be a bloodbath again for the Big 12

Which is frustrating because their narrative against us is working. How did more not watch UU v BYU?? And how many of those 19 ABC games were sec?

 

[ZorkClone]

I guess the silver lining is schadenfreude that Fox appears to be vastly overpaying for the Big 10.

 

[NATEizKING]

Throw B12 games on if at worst for background noise, I don't watch other conferences

 

[Raiders70]

I didn't realize nobody watched big 12 games anymore. For the most part I think they are pretty competitive and entertaining. About 80 percent of the games I watch are Big 12 games.

 

[Al_4_State]

You guys realize those are basically the ratings they’re paying us for, right? If you break it down by dollars per view, the Big 12 is right there with the Big 10 and ahead of the ACC.

 

[bozclone]

Old Stu loves trashing the Big 12

 

[Cyinthenorth]

Throw B12 games on if at worst for background noise, I don't watch other conferences

I honestly have been finding myself caring less and less about other conference games kind of naturally this season. I've been watching fewer games in general just due to life (2 kids under 5) but when I do it has been a Big 12 game. I think i watched a half or so of Alabama v Vanderbilt a few weeks ago during nap time but that is it for non Big 12.

 

[Clark]

I guess the silver lining is schadenfreude that Fox appears to be vastly overpaying for the Big 10.

Those fox games are at 11 while the ABC games are at prime time. Not a fair comparison. I don't know if their gambit of putting the biggest game at noon is working. I'm sure it's the most watched game on that timeslot but would they be better off trying to compete with ABC at night?

 

[CascadeClone]

Bad science here.

The channel matters too and he is pretending it doesnt. Put North vs South Dakota on ABC and they will outdraw Bama vs Auburn on ESPNU. You have to do enough math to separate those two independent variables.

Which of course the networks have done. And SEC is more viewers on any channel. But when you combine the two (which they do, because thats their best return) it looks worse and then doorknobs like Stew use it to crap on B12.

Without having done the math, i think channel is 75% and teams are 25%.

 

[State2015]

Oof this next TV deal is going to be a bloodbath again for the Big 12

Bloodbath for the big 10. Outside of 4 teams, it’s bad for them. Ours is pretty much expected