Notre Dame still No. 1: In the ratings, that is: ABC pulls big number for Florida State game

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Once again, Notre Dame showed it still is the king when it comes to drawing viewers.

The Notre Dame-Florida State game on ABC pulled an 8.5 overnight rating of major markets on Saturday night; one national ratings point is worth over 1 million homes. Full ratings will be out tomorrow.

The rating was the best of the year for college football thus far. According to Sports Media Watch, the 8.5 rating is the fourth-highest in the eight-year history of ABC’s Saturday night package. Of course, two of the other games involved the Irish: the Notre Dame-USC games in 2006 and 2012 both did a 9.6 and Ohio State-Texas in 2006 at 8.8.

Notre Dame’s large following in Chicago, the nation’s No. 3 market, helped drive the rating. The game did a 10.4 in Chicago, peaking at 15.7 during the closing minutes.

 

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  1. Good thing Notre Dame lost or the hype from ESPN would have been LeBron, Tebow like.

    Now we can all relax since given their remaining schedule they won’t be going to the four team national playoff.

    WOO HOO!

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