Wisconsin’s Week 3 game vs. Alabama among most watched across the country

Wisconsin’s Week 3 game vs. Alabama among most watched across the country

Wisconsin’s Week 3 contest vs. the Alabama Crimson Tide was the second-most watched game in the country last weekend, per The Athletic’s Stewart Mandel.

Saturday afternoon’s contest attracted five million viewers nationwide on Fox, trailing only ABC’s primetime showing of Georgia vs. Kentucky. The Bulldogs and Wildcats reeled in 6.6 million viewers for what became a 1-point Georgia victory.

ABC’s LSU vs. South Carolina and Texas A&M vs. Florida also attracted over four million viewers during the Week 3 slate.

UW’s ratings obviously received a boost given the national attention and Fox Big Noon Kickoff pregame show, but the Alabama effect is evident. As a mainstay in college football, the Crimson Tide program is notorious for pulling sizable television audiences each week.

Alabama ultimately blew out the Badgers 42-10 at UW’s Camp Randall Stadium. The offense couldn’t discover any type of consistency and Alabama’s Jalen Milroe torched the secondary on passes 20 or more yards down the field.

Wisconsin will return to the turf against No. 11 USC on Sept. 28 in Los Angeles. With quarterback Tyler Van Dyke out for the year with an ACL injury, the prospects of Wisconsin winning its first road game of the season in California have slimmed.