Texas’ Win Over Michigan Leads College Football Week 2 With More Than 9M Viewers

The Texas Longhorns took the Michigan Wolverines to task on Saturday in the most-watched Week 2 college football matchup.

The game drew 9.35M viewers for Fox, which marks the biggest audience of the season so far, up just slightly from the 9.2M who tuned in for the USC-LSU game in Week 1. Granted, there are plenty of big-ticket matchups to go, so that record isn’t likely to hold for very long.

Still, the audience was much bigger than any other college football game over the weekend. Second place went to Colorado-Nebraska, which managed 5.67M viewers on NBC in primetime.

Earlier in the day, NBC scored 3.93M viewers for its broadcast of the Northern Illinois Huskies’ win over Notre Dame.

Rounding out the top five was two ABC broadcasts. In fourth is the Arkansas-Oklahoma State game, which tallied 2.8M viewers, while fifth went to South Carolina-Kentucky with 2.73M.

Besides its highly watched noon game, Fox also broadcast the afternoon Baylor-Utah game to 2.08M viewers and a late Texas Tech-Washington St. game to 1.16M.

CBS joined the fray with the Iowa State-Iowa matchup, which came in as the eighth largest audience of the week at 2.28M viewers.

Lastly among the broadcasters was The CW with an audience of 407,000 for Virginia Tech’s win over Marshall.