How did college football close?

With bowl season upon us, ESPN reports that over 179,000,000 fans viewed more than 100 billion minutes of college football games across ESPN’s Nielsen-rated television networks. In addition, ESPN games were streamed on 15,128,000 unique devices during the 2016 college football regular season. ABC’s Saturday Night Football finished the season as the most-watched college football franchise with an average total live audience of 6,087,000 viewers with its TV audience (5,996,000 viewers) up 10%.

The SEC on CBS finished its season with a national household rating/share of 3.4/8, and averaged 5.7 million viewers. The SEC Championship on Dec. 3 ranked as the highest-rated and most-watched Conference Championship game, averaging 11.1 million viewers and a 6.6/15 HH rating/share.

On FOX Sports, the company saw its own conference championship games record big numbers on Friday and Saturday beginning with the Pac-12 Championship Game which drummed up a 3.4 rating with 5.671 million viewers and marking the second most-watched Pac-12 Championship Game ever. Saturday night’s Big Ten Championship Game handed the broadcast network with a 5.3 rating and 9.198 million viewers, while the unofficial battle for the Big 12 Championship scored a 3.1 with 4.817 million viewers.

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