CFP First round - Penn State vs SMU
Nielsen average audience: 6,600,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.
- Aired
- 2024-12-21 Saturday
- Teams
- Penn State · SMU
6,600,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2024-12-23
Published figures
JSONNielsen1 figure
6,600,000
… Clemson-Texas averaged 8.90 million and SMU-Penn State 6.60 million — the two most-watched cable-exclusive college football games all season.Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
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College Football 2024 season
Postseason · 38th of 467 published College Football figures in the 2024 season
Site-computed over the season's chart-eligible Nielsen average figures · computed 2026-10-30 22:04 UTC
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13,990,000
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10,900,000
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