LSU at Alabama Lands Huge Ratings
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CBS Sports announced that the LSU at Alabama game, which was not considered a prime- time game, delivered a massive audience on Saturday.
The game scored a fast national household rating/share of a 9.7/24, up 47 percent over last year’s 6.6/13 rating/share in prime time.
The 9.7/24 was the highest-rated regular-season college football game (excluding conference championships) on any network in eight years.
LSU-Alabama had an average of 16.636 million viewers, and was the most-watched regular-season game between the teams since 2011, which was dubbed the "Game of the Century" and went to overtime.
It delivered a 44 percent increase in viewership versus last year’s prime-time game (11.588 million).
The game peaked from 7:00-7:15 p.m., with 20.610 million viewers and an 11.8/26 rating/share.
Through the first 11 weeks of the college football season, SEC games on CBS had drawn more viewers at this point in the season since 1990, and is up +39 percent with 7.091 million viewers compared to last year’s 5.088 million.