CFB Week 7 Finals: USC/Notre Dame Does Well For NBC

Even with USC’s recent struggles, their annual rivalry game against Notre Dame pulled in decent numbers Saturday night.

Saturday’s USC/Notre Dame college football game drew a 2.5 final rating and 4.0 million viewers on NBC, up 25% in ratings and 24% in viewership from North Carolina/Notre Dame last year (2.0, 3.2M) and up 14% in both measures from the same USC/Notre Dame matchup in 2013 (2.2, 3.5M).

Compared to last year’s Notre Dame/USC game, which aired on FOX in week fourteen of the season, ratings and viewership increased by 92% and 98%, respectively, from a 1.3 and 2.0 million. Notre Dame’s win ranks as the rivals’ highest rated and most-watched meeting since 2012 on ABC, when a national…