The College Football Playoff is the talk of the sports world right now as 12 teams compete for the national title, but the NFL wanted to remind everyone this past weekend who is still the king when it comes down to it.
On Saturday, college football and the NFL went head-to-head on broadcast with two games each, and the viewership results, like many of the CFP games, were blowouts by the final whistle.
In the opening contest, 15.46 million people watched the Eagles take hold of the NFC East crown against divisional rival Washington, a game that was close until it wasn’t.
For the CFP, 6.2 million watched as Ole Miss beat down the Tulane Green Wave for the second time this season in a laugher that felt over following the first quick Mississippi drive for a touchdown.
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At night, it was more of the same: a whopping 21.34 million watched the Bears take down the Packers in one of the more entertaining regular-season games of the year. Caleb Williams and company came back in the final minutes, aided by an onside kick, to push the game into overtime before throwing a deep shot into the endzone for a dramatic walk-off victory.
Oregon vs. James Madison, which was another Group of Five team getting smacked around by a perennial powerhouse, had no chance. 4.4 million tuned in to watch as the Dukes tried their best to hang on in a game where the Ducks scored at will at home in Eugene.
For college football fans, however, they will argue that Saturday’s biggest game was on first, which was the back-and-forth defensive battle between Texas A&M and Miami. It was the highest by far on the day for the CFP, with 14.8 million watching as Miami won on the road at College Station to set up a quarterfinal against defending champion Ohio State.
