Alabama leads Nielsen’s first-ever ranking of the most-watched college football teams through the season’s first 10 weeks, drawing 7.910 million viewers, with Georgia close behind at 7.626 million.
Overall college football viewership rose 4% year-over-year, based on Nielsen’s Big Data Plus Panel metrics for the same period.
The Top 10 list aggregates audiences across ABC, Big Ten Network, CBS, The CW, ESPN networks, Fox, FS1, FS2, NBC, and TNT.
In a separate weekly ranking of the top 25 live sports events (Oct. 27–Nov. 2), college football claimed 10 slots. The NFL took seven of the top 14 across Fox, NBC, CBS, Prime Video, ABC, and ESPN, led by the Chiefs-Bills game on CBS (nearly 31 million viewers).
The World Series occupied five of the top 11, with Game 7 on Fox (26.9 million) ranking No. 2—the highest for a Fall Classic game since 2017.