Telecasts · College Football
New Mexico State Aggies at Florida State Seminoles
1,960,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
final · figures last changed 2026-09-02
Published figures
JSON ↓Nielsen2 figures
via pressaverage audienceLead figure
full telecast / Big Data + Panel · final
press-attributed · The CW
Saturday as the primetime Week 0 non-conference game between New Mexico State and Florida State delivered the largest audience for a sports broadcast in network history, averaging 1.96 million total viewers , per Nielsen Panel + Big DataThe CW, verbatim
1,960,000
via presspeak audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · The CW
Viewership peaked at 2.4 million total viewersThe CW, verbatim
2,400,000
2 press attributions · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
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