SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

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The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 28 and Sunday September 29, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)

College Football Week 5

Top Games on Saturday

4.9 rating CBS 3:30 pm #6 LSU at #9 Georgia

4.1 rating ABC 8:00 pm #23 Wisconsin at #4 Ohio State

2.8 rating NBC 3:30 pm #14 Oklahoma at #22 Notre Dame

2.5 rating ABC 12:00 pm South Carolina at UCF

2.45 rating ESPN 6:30 pm #21 Ole Miss at #1 Alabama

1.94 rating ESPN 12:00 pm #11 Oklahoma State at West Virginia

1.9 rating ABC 3:30 pm #8 Florida State at Boston College (36 markets) or Iowa at Minnesota (20 markets)

NFL Week 4

Sunday NFL Packages — Ranking

18.5 rating FOX 4:30pm-7:30 pm PHI-DEN (32 markets) or WAS-OAK (10 markets) or DAL-SD (7 markets) (+24% from 14.9 last year)

13.6 rating NBC 8:30pm-11:30 pm NE-ATL (-13% from 15.6 last year for NYG-PHI)

10.2 rating FOX 1:00-4:30 pm SEA-HOU (21 markets), NYG-KC (11 markets), CHI-DET (10 markets), and three other games (+4% from 9.8 last year)

9.4 rating CBS 1:00-4:15 pm PIT-MIN (32 markets), NYJ-TEN (12 markets), and three other games (-12% from 10.7 last year)

NASCAR: 2.2 rating for Dover 400 on ESPN Sunday 2:00-5:30pm (+5% from 2.1 last year).

MLB: 1.3 rating on Saturday 1:00-4:00pm on FOX for PIT-CIN (40 markets), CLE-MIN (10 markets) and TB-TOR (6 markets) (+18% from 1.1 last year).

SOCCER: Highest-rated match on NBC this weekend: Saturday 12:30 pm 0.64 rating for Premier League Arsenal-Swansea.  Highest-rated match on NBCSN: Sunday at 1:0o pm 0.4 rating for Premiere League Liverpool-Sunderland.