Once again, Notre Dame showed it still is No. 1 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; 1 national ratings point is worth more than 1 million homes. Full ratings will be out Tuesday.
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The rating was the best of the year for college football. 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 also involved the Irish: the Notre Dame-USC games in 2006 and 2012 both did a 9.6 and Ohio State-Texas in 2006 did an 8.8.
In Chicago, the game earned a 10.4 rating on WLS-Ch. 7; 1 local ratings point is worth 35,500 homes. It peaked at 15.7 during the game’s closing minutes.