Penn State Nittany Lions at Purdue Boilermakers
Nielsen average audience: 3,510,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.
- Aired
- 2022-09-01 Thursday
- Networks
- FOX
- Away
- Penn State
- Home
- Purdue
3,510,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2022-09-02
Published figures
JSONNielsen1 figure
3,510,000
Thursday's Purdue-Penn State college football game averaged 3.51 million viewers on FOX, down nearly half from Ohio State-Minnesota in the same window last year (~6.3M …Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
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College Football 2022 season
Week 1 of 15 · 71st of 380 published College Football figures in the 2022 season
Site-computed over the season's chart-eligible Nielsen average figures · computed 2026-10-31 02:47 UTC
Prior-season comparable
6,300,000
2021-09-02 · FOX · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
−44.3% vs the comparable
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on FOX, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.
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