A pair of Saturday NFL video games drew a bigger viewing viewers than faculty soccer for the rollout of the game’s 12-team playoff.
The playoff recreation between SMU and Penn State averaged 6.4 million viewers on TNT networks, in contrast with the Texans-Chiefs recreation on NBC, which averaged 15.5 million viewers.
Later, Clemson-Texas drew 8.6 million viewers on TNT, in contrast with 15.4 million for Steelers-Ravens on Fox.
ESPN, ABC and others aired the opposite two faculty video games: Indiana-Notre Dame (13.4 million) on Friday night time and Tennessee-Ohio State (14.3 million) on Saturday night time. There have been no competing NFL video games.
The general common of 10.6 million viewers was larger than all however 4 faculty video games this season.
