ESPN scored its top Black Friday college football overnight in five years.
The Baylor/TCU college football game earned a 3.2 overnight rating on ESPN Friday night, up 88% from Virginia Tech/Virginia last year (1.7) and the network’s highest overnight for a college game on the day after Thanksgiving since 2010.
The Horned Frogs’ double-overtime win, which knocked the Bears from the playoff race, scored the top overnight for any college football game on cable in six weeks — since Michigan State/Michigan had a 5.1 and Florida/LSU a 4.0 in mid-October.
Shifting to Saturday, Florida State/Florida had a 2.