![]() ![]() Colorado’s first five games each averaged over seven million viewers. While ratings and viewership remain far in excess of what one would have once expected for a Colorado-UCLA game, it should be noted that the Buffaloes’ drawing power remains sharply reduced from earlier in the season. The Buffaloes’ loss ranked third for the weekend with an average of 2.6 and 4.66 million - down 8% and 16% respectively from Michigan State-Michigan in the same window last year (2.8, 5.58M). The Buckeyes’ win aired in a competitive primetime window that included Game 2 of the World Series on FOX ( 8.15M) and Colorado-UCLA on ABC’s Saturday Night Football. Ranking second for the week, Ohio State-Wisconsin averaged a 2.6 and 4.87 million viewers on NBC Saturday night - easily the network’s most-watched Big Ten game this season and its third-most watched including Notre Dame coverage. For the full list of college football ratings this season, see the following page. ![]() It was also the first week this season in which CBS topped the charts. This week was the first since “week zero” in which no college football game averaged at least seven - or even six - million viewers. Georgia-Florida averaged a 3.0 rating and 5.95 million viewers on the SEC on CBS over the weekend, flat in ratings and up 6% in viewership from the same matchup last year (3.0, 5.62M) and the largest college football audience of the weekend. We will update these rankings every Monday in the regular season.If absent some of the home run audiences of recent weeks, college football still produced more than a few hits over the weekend. That is why some FCS programs rank higher than some FBS programs. This vote is based on how well we believe each program would do in their respective level and not based on who we believe would win head-to-head. The WRAL Sports staff-across the TV, radio and digital divisions-votes on the 14 Division One College football programs in North Carolina to come up with the top ten. This week: Home vs (4) Florida State, Saturday at noon This week: at Richmond, Saturday at 3:30pm This week: Home vs Presbyterian, Saturday 7:00pm This week: at Georgia Tech, Saturday at 8:00pm This week: At (18) Louisville, Saturday at 3:30pm ![]() Both Elon and Appalachian State came in at No. We had second tie in the rankings, a first in WRAL CFPR history. Personally, I voted for the Eagles to have the top spot in our rankings. The Eagles and the Tar Heels are both tied at No. NCCU is caught in the middle in all of this and only moved up one spot to No. However, the Heels also received more lower votes than the Blue Devils. It's clear the Power Rankings voters punished UNC more for that loss, even though the Tar Heels received more first place votes than Duke. UNC lost to Virginia, who previously had only won a single game this season. 4 Florida State, but the bottom fell out when their Quarterback Riley Leonard reaggravated his ankle injury. The two top teams from last week's poll, North Carolina and Duke respectively, lost over the weekend. What an interesting outcome for this week's WRAL College Football Power Rankings. By Chris Lea, WRAL-TV Sports Anchor/Reporter ![]()
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