Most viewed college football games of 2020

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As we sit with under 100 hours left in as strange of year as most of us will ever experience, it’s time to start seeing the lists that recap the year that was.

Some will be done by personal opinion while others are based on actual fact.

Stewart Mandell of The Athletic accumulated all of the data from Sports Media Watch and put together the list of the most-watched college football games of the year.

Of the top 13 Mandel listed, Notre Dame appeared four times.

1. Nov. 7 vs. Clemson
2. Dec. 19 vs. Clemson
11. Nov. 27 at North Carolina
13. Nov. 14 at Boston College

Ohio State had four of their six regular-season games appear in the top ten while Alabama had three games appear on the list, all coming in the three-six range.

Most interesting about the list is how it compares to ratings from just one year ago. 2019 saw five games have a larger television audience than the 10.1 million who watched Notre Dame and Clemson on NBC.

Is it easily explained by COVID-19 simply taking over the world and millions of peoples worries and time being spent elsewhere?

Is it because conferences essentially operated as their own islands this year, leaving less of a national appeal?

Or is it something college football has brought upon itself with the idea that unless it’s the CFP, that nothing else matters?

If I had to guess it’s a mixture of all, seeing as being in attendance for many of this games wasn’t exactly a reason for folks to not have watched them on TV this year.