BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Ohio State's season opener on Thursday night was billed as the biggest game in Hoosiers' history. No. 2 team in the country at your place in a weird Thursday night tilt? It felt like it.
Naturally that game was watched by a lot of people too.
ESPN, which broadcast the game in a "Megacast" offering seven unique viewing experiences, announced on Friday that the Ohio State-Indiana game recorded the network's best overnight rating for a Thursday night college football game on record.
The game drew an overnight rating of 3.6, and had a streaming audience of 201,000 viewers in the average minute, according to a release from ESPN.