Maybe it’s because Notre Dame football usually has a large audience. Maybe it’s because neutral fans were curious to see if the Fighting Irish could bounce back after the loss to Northern Illinois at home. Maybe neutral fans wanted to see the Irish get upset two weeks in a row.
Whatever the reason, a lot of people tuned in to see Notre Dame visit the Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday.
According to The Athletic’s Stewart Mandel, the game was the eighth-most watched college football game of the weekend, with 2.3 million people tuning into CBS to watch.
The most-watched game was Georgia at Kentucky. That’s not surprising given the Bulldogs’ status as one of the top two teams in the country, and it was also the night game on ABC. It’s hard to tell how the flow of a game affects the total number, but that game was also close to an upset.
Alabama at Wisconsin drew 5 million on Fox, and Lousiana State’s escape against South Carolina drew 4.9 million to ABC during the day on Saturday.
The top five were rounded out by Texas A&M at Florida on ABC (4.8 million) and Colorado-Colorado State on CBS (3.2 million).
Most Watched Games, Week 3
UGA-Ky. (ABC) 6.6M
Ala-Wisc (FOX) 5M
LSU-S Carolina (ABC) 4.9M
A&M-Florida (ABC) 4.8M
CU-CSU (CBS) 3.2M
Ore-Ore St (FOX) 2.8M
Arizona-KState (FOX): 2.6M
ND-Purdue (CBS) 2.3M— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) September 17, 2024
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