Ratings Reference

Michigan State Spartans at Michigan Wolverines

Nielsen average audience: 1,730,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2024-10-26 Saturday
Networks
BTN
1,730,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2024-10-30

Published figures

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Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
1,730,000
Big Ten Network drew 1.73 million for Michigan State-Michigan, the most-watched primetime game ever on the network (which became Nielsen rated in 2018) … Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

College Football 2024 season

Week 9 of 16 · 174th of 467 published College Football figures in the 2024 season
Site-computed over the season's chart-eligible Nielsen average figures · computed 2026-10-31 00:07 UTC

Prior-season windows

783,000
270,000
2 windows sit the same distance from 52 weeks earlier; the site does not pick one, so no percent is computed.
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on BTN, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

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