A Top 25 thriller involving Notre Dame did unsurprisingly well for ABC.
Saturday’s Notre Dame/Clemson college football game drew a 4.5 final rating and 7.7 million viewers on ABC, up 73% in ratings and 89% in viewership from Notre Dame/Syracuse last year (2.6, 4.1M) and up 13% in both measures from Wisconsin/Ohio State in 2013 (4.0, 6.8M).
The Tigers’ close win ranks as the fourth-most watched college football telecast on any network this season, trailing only Ohio State/Virginia Tech on Labor Day (10.6M), Wisconsin/Alabama on the opening Saturday (8.0M) and Oregon/Michigan State in week two (7.