Telecasts · College Football
TCU Horned Frogs at North Carolina Tar Heels
6,070,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
final · figures last changed 2026-09-10
Published figures
JSON ↓Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
Among games on cable, SMU-Florida State topped week one with an average of 4.07 million on ESPN in primetime on Labor Day — down a third from TCU-North Carolina in Bill Belichick' s debut last year (6.07M).Sports Media Watch, verbatim
6,070,000
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
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