The final numbers are in, and as expected, the Longhorns 2 OT win over Notre Dame set a high bar for the rest of the college football to meet during the regular season.
Sunday’s game drew 10,910,000 viewers to ABC. The live stream coverage of the game averaged another 194,000 viewers each minute of the game, making its 11.1 million total viewers on ABC and the ESPN live stream, the highest viewership for a college football kickoff weekend game ever across all networks. Best of all, viewership peaked (13.5 million) during the 4th quarter and overtimes.