West Virginia Mountaineers at Pittsburgh Panthers
Nielsen average audience: 3,150,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.
- Aired
- 2022-09-01 Thursday
- Networks
- ESPN
- Away
- Pittsburgh
- Home
- West Virginia
3,150,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
multiple sources · 2 sources · final
figures last changed 2026-10-22
Published figures
JSONNielsen2 figures
3,150,000
Penn State's win faced much tougher competition than last year, as ESPN's competing West Virginia-Pittsburgh game averaged 3.15 millionSports Media Watch, verbatim
3,150,000
Figure transcribed from the publisher's chart image; no source text to quote
2 press attributions · no provider-published figure · multiple sources
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
College Football 2022 season
Week 1 of 15 · 89th of 380 published College Football figures in the 2022 season
Site-computed over the season's chart-eligible Nielsen average figures · computed 2026-10-23 05:18 UTC
Prior-season comparable
841,000
2021-09-02 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
+274.6% vs the comparable
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on ESPN, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.
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