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.