ESPN Coverage of Notre Dame at Texas Sets Multiple Streaming Records

By: Caryn Robbins Sep. 06, 2016

Sunday night's two-overtime thriller between No. 10 Notre Dame and Texas (7:30 p.m. ET on ABC) earned a massive 7.0 overnight rating, ESPN/ABC's second highest kickoff weekend overnight on record, including Labor Day night's games, and the networks' best kickoff weekend overnight in the last 11 seasons.

Additionally, on WatchESPN, the Longhorns' 50-47 victory stream had an average minute audience of 194,000 for a total of 786,000 unique viewers viewing 49,900,000 minutes overall - all-time highs in each category for a regular season COLLEGE FOOTBALL game on the product.

ESPN/ABC Kickoff Weekend Success The Fighting Irish-Longhorns' overnight surpasses Boise State at Virginia Tech on ESPN from Monday, Sept. 6, 2010 (6.7 overnight) for ESPN/ABC's second-best kickoff weekend overnight, trailing only Miami at Florida State on ABC from September 5, 2005 (7.2). Also, when factoring in last season's Ohio State at Virginia Tech Labor Day Night game (6.6 overnight), ESPN/ABC has achieved two of the top 4 kickoff weekend overnights on record in the last two seasons.

Locally, Austin had a 25.4 overnight rating, the No. 1 market for the game and Austin's best overnight for an opening weekend game ever on ESPN's networks.