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Texas Longhorns at Ohio State Buckeyes

Nielsen average audience: 16,600,000 viewers (final), per Awful Announcing.

Aired
2025-08-30 Saturday
Networks
FOX
Home
Texas
16,600,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
multiple sources · 2 sources · final
figures last changed 2026-08-29

Published figures

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via pressaverage audienceLead figure
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Awful Announcing
16,600,000
That figure is largely buoyed by a massive audience for the Week 1 game between Texas and Ohio State, which averaged 16.6 million viewers Awful Announcing, verbatim
via pressaverage audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Wikipedia
16,620,000
16.62 Wikipedia, verbatim
2 press attributions · no provider-published figure · multiple sources
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

College Football 2025 season

Week 1 of 16 · 9th of 453 published College Football figures in the 2025 season
Site-computed over the season's chart-eligible Nielsen average figures · computed 2026-10-30 20:37 UTC

Prior-season windows

2,990,000
2024-08-31 · FOX · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
1,670,000
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 FOX, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

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