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FSU-Ole Miss Audience Down For ESPN, But Notre Dame-Texas Scores Big For ABC On Sunday
ESPN drew a 5.3 overnight rating for Florida State's 45-34 win over Ole Miss last night, down 20% from Ohio State's 42-24 win over Virginia Tech on Labor Day last year (6.6 overnight). That game marked ESPN/ABC's third-best Week 1 overnight on record. While down from '15, FSU-Ole Miss is expected to win the night among all broadcast and cable networks and is up big from Labor Day games in previous years, including Miami-Louisville in '14 (2.7), FSU-Pitt in '13 (3.0) and Georgia Tech-Virginia Tech in '12 (2.9). The FSU-Ole Miss game last night also set a record for a CFB game on WatchESPN, drawing 854,000 unique viewers. That passes the previous record set on Sunday night by Notre-Dame Texas, which saw 786,000 unique viewers. Including the LSU-Wisconsin game on Saturday night, WacthESPN this past weekend had three of its top five CFB streams ever.
