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USC Trojans at Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Nielsen average audience: 2,988,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2017-10-21 Saturday
Networks
NBC
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2,988,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2026-08-27

Published figures

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Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
2,988,000
2.988M Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

Prior-season windows

2,870,000
2,634,000
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 NBC, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

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