A nailbiter involving Notre Dame held up well despite World Series competition.
The Notre Dame/Temple college football game drew a 3.9 overnight rating on ABC Saturday night, up 26% from Ohio State/Penn State last year (3.1) and up 50% from Penn State/Ohio State in 2013 (2.6). The 3.9 is the highest for ABC’s Saturday Night Football opposite the World Series since Notre Dame/Oklahoma in 2012 (5.9).
Notre Dame’s narrow win scored the highest college football overnight of the weekend, marking the seventh time in nine weeks this season that ESPN or ABC has topped the charts.