Telecasts · College Football

CFP National Championship

Name: CFP National Championship
Creator: RatingsReference
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

2024-01-08 · College Football · ESPN

25,050,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2026-08-23

Published figures

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press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Monday's Michigan-Washington College Football Playoff National Championship averaged a 12.3 rating and 25.05 million viewers Sports Media Watch, verbatim

25,050,000

via pressaverage audience

full telecast · final

press-attributed · Wikipedia

Nielsen ratings 12.3 (25.1 million viewers) Wikipedia, verbatim

25,100,000

2 press attributions · no provider-published figure · multiple sources
combined counts all networks and streams · press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

On the record

NetworksESPN

TeamsNo. 1 Michigan · No. 2 Washington

ScoreMichigan 34, Washington 13

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season comparable

17,220,000

CFP National Championship

2023-01-09 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

+45.5% vs the comparable

Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on ESPN, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

Cite this figure

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CFP National Championship (2024-01-08): 25,050,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2024-01-09, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2024/01/michigan-washington-cfp-national-championship-ratings-espn-most-watched-four-years/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/cfb-michigan-washington-2024-01-08, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Panel + Out-of-Home, since Sept 2020