Over 17 Million Viewers Tune In for ESPN's Coverage of Michigan at Ohio State
By: Caryn Robbins
Michigan-Ohio State's total live audience (TV + digital) viewership has surpassed 17 million viewers, which now includes 194,000 more television viewers in Nielsen's final report compared to Sunday's fast nationals report. The additional viewership only further cements the Big Ten matchup as the most-watched game of the season across all networks.
The Wolverines-Buckeyes (noon ET on ABC) final total live audience is 17,120,000 viewers, which includes an ESPN COLLEGE FOOTBALL regular season record-breaking streaming average audience (279,000 viewers). ABC's TV audience (16,841,000 viewers) surpassed the network's Notre Dame-Texas game from opening weekend (Sept. 4 at 7:30 p.m.) as the most-watched game across all networks. Season-to-date, ABC has televised four of the five most-watched COLLEGE FOOTBALL games across all networks:Most-Viewed COLLEGE FOOTBALL Games This Season on TV
| Rank | TV Viewership | Game | Date | Network |
| 1 | 16,841,000 | Michigan at Ohio State | Nov. 26, 2016 | ABC |
| 2 | 10,945,000 | Notre Dame at Texas | Sept. 4, 2016 | ABC |
| 3 | 10,385,000 | Alabama at LSU | Nov. 5, 2016 | CBS |
| 4 | 9,294,000 | Louisville at Clemson | Oct. 1, 2016 | ABC |
| 5 | 8,964,000 | Ohio State at Wisconsin | Oct. 15, 2016 | ABC |
Additional Michigan-Ohio State Viewership Superlatives:
- Most-watched COLLEGE FOOTBALL regular season noon ET kickoff across all networks on record*
- ABC's second most-viewed game dating back to 1991 (out of 791 game windows)
- Top 5 most-watched regular season game across all networks - which includes conference championship games - on record*
- ESPN's most-streamed regular season game ever, including surpassing one million unique users and 69 million minutes watched
- Most social COLLEGE FOOTBALL event this season with 3,300,000 million uniques and 7,700,000 million total interactions
- College GameDay Presented by the Home Depot, live from Ohio State, was the show's most-watched episode ever
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