CFB Week 12 Finals: Notre Dame’s NBCSN Debut Sets Mark

The debut of Notre Dame football on NBCSN set a network record.

Saturday’s Boston College/Notre Dame college football game had a 1.15 final rating and 2.0 million viewers on NBCSN, down 43% in ratings and 36% in viewership from the team’s seventh home game last year, against Louisville (2.0, 3.1M) and down 23% and 13%, respectively, from the seventh such game in 2013, against BYU (1.5, 2.3M). Those games aired on the NBC broadcast network.

Notre Dame’s closer-than-expected win ranks as the highest rated and most-watched college football telecast ever on NBCSN (previously VERSUS and OLN), topping the previous highs of 1.1 and 1.9 million for Oregon/Cal in November 2010. Keep in mind NBCSN has…