{"id":430887,"date":"2024-10-08T15:22:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T19:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=430887"},"modified":"2024-10-08T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T19:22:33","slug":"arkansas-tennessee-draws-big-ratings-for-abc-as-top-game-of-week-6","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/arkansas-football\/arkansas-tennessee-draws-big-ratings-for-abc-as-top-game-of-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas-Tennessee draws big ratings for ABC as top game of Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas&#8217; top-10 takedown of Tennessee got the biggest ratings of any game during a wild and wacky Week 6.<\/p>\n<p>The Razorbacks&#8217; 19-14 victory in front of a raucous crowd in Fayetteville drew 5.3 million viewers in primetime on ABC, with a peak viewership of 6.8 million viewers. It was the top-rated college football game across all networks on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ABC &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNCFB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ESPNCFB<\/a> won all four Wk 6 Saturday windows, including scoring the top 2 telecasts across all networks<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vol_Football?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Vol_Football<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RazorbackFB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RazorbackFB<\/a> | 5.3M viewers<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuburnFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AuburnFootball<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgiaFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GeorgiaFootball<\/a> | 4.9M<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MizzouFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MizzouFootball<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AggieFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AggieFootball<\/a> | 3.3M<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanesFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CanesFootball<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CalFootball<\/a> | 1.9M <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xJRhOudNdI\">pic.twitter.com\/xJRhOudNdI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNPR\/status\/1843696303039185217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 2nd-highest-rated game on Saturday was also an SEC matchup, as Georgia&#8217;s victory over Auburn in Athens drew 4.9 million viewers on ABC during the 3:30 p.m. ET window. It was the top-rated afternoon game and was the No. 2 telecast across all networks on Saturday. The peak viewership for Auburn-Georgia was 5.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>The top-rated noon game also belonged to the SEC, with Texas A&amp;M&#8217;s dominant victory over Missouri drawing 3.3 million viewers on ABC, with a peak viewership of 3.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>The top-rated late-night game was, as expected, that crazy Miami-Cal game that didn&#8217;t end in Berkeley until the wee hours of the morning on the East Coast. The ratings were helped by the Hurricanes&#8217; furious 4th-quarter comeback from a 20-point deficit for a 39-38 victory. The game drew 1.9 million viewers on ESPN, with a peak viewership of 2.4.<\/p>\n<p>The ESPN <em>College GameDay<\/em> crew was in Berkeley for that Miami-Cal showdown, and the ratings were strong despite the game not kicking off until about 10:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas&#8217; stunning upset of Tennessee on Saturday night was a ratings blockbuster for ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269106,"featured_media":430890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-430887","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-arkansas-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/430887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}