TV Viewership by Team in 2025

[StevensTechU]

FootballScoop summarized the top 50 most watched games, highlighting the biggest games and the most watched teams.

https://footballscoop.com/2025/12/10/50 ... lar-season

Appearances by program in the top 50
10: Alabama
8: Georgia
7: LSU, Oklahoma
6: Ohio State
5: Texas
4: Ole Miss, Oregon, Texas A&M
3: Auburn, Florida, Indiana, Miami, Michigan, Missouri, Penn State
2: Florida State, Notre Dame, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

[StevensTechU]

Some of my takeaways:

The ESPN hype engine runs this sport. They've done an amazing job of making games that nobody should care about - Alabama vs. Missouri, Missouri vs. Texas A&M, anything involving South Carolina, on and on - ones that average viewers feel like they should tune into. ESPN gives you human interest stories, nonstop coverage, and constant hype when you're an SEC team and has for more than a decade, and it's really borne fruit.

Ohio State is the biggest single property in the sport, which I don't think I fully appreciated prior to us joining the Big Ten. Shame on me.

Oregon is benefiting from the move to the Big Ten and the TV deals with CBS and Fox. If we stayed in the Pac-12, we'd maybe have one game on this list.

[UOducksTK1]

Some of my takeaways:

The ESPN hype engine runs this sport. They've done an amazing job of making games that nobody should care about - Alabama vs. Missouri, Missouri vs. Texas A&M, anything involving South Carolina, on and on - ones that average viewers feel like they should tune into. ESPN gives you human interest stories, nonstop coverage, and constant hype when you're an SEC team and has for more than a decade, and it's really borne fruit.

Ohio State is the biggest single property in the sport, which I don't think I fully appreciated prior to us joining the Big Ten. Shame on me.

Oregon is benefiting from the move to the Big Ten and the TV deals with CBS and Fox. If we stayed in the Pac-12, we'd maybe have one game on this list.

Yes we are definitely benefiting from the move. Tv deals help and playing better and bigger market teams helps too.

Yes espn has hyped the heck out of SEC, but even if their games were on mtv, SEC fan base would still outwatch other conferences.

[StevensTechU]

Some of my takeaways:

The ESPN hype engine runs this sport. They've done an amazing job of making games that nobody should care about - Alabama vs. Missouri, Missouri vs. Texas A&M, anything involving South Carolina, on and on - ones that average viewers feel like they should tune into. ESPN gives you human interest stories, nonstop coverage, and constant hype when you're an SEC team and has for more than a decade, and it's really borne fruit.

Ohio State is the biggest single property in the sport, which I don't think I fully appreciated prior to us joining the Big Ten. Shame on me.

Oregon is benefiting from the move to the Big Ten and the TV deals with CBS and Fox. If we stayed in the Pac-12, we'd maybe have one game on this list.

Yes we are definitely benefiting from the move. Tv deals help and playing better and bigger market teams helps too.

Yes espn has hyped the heck out of SEC, but even if their games were on mtv, SEC fan base would still outwatch other conferences.

The SEC fanbase would watch, but no one in New York, California, and the other places that are more populous than Alabama and Mississippi and Missouri wouldn't watch.

[UOducksTK1]

Yeah that’s true. It would be cool to see tv viewership by state.