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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 9.26-27.2015

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Written by: Mitch Metcalf
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The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 26 through Sunday September 27, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the comparable weekend last year.

NFL: Week 3

Sunday
11.91 rating 1:00 pm FOX Single (vs 12.2 in 2014 and 13.3 in 2013 for FOX Single)
(ATL-DAL NO-CAR PHI-NYJ TB-HOU SF-ARI)
10.96 rating 1:00 pm CBS Regional (vs 11.1 in 2014 and 7.7 in 2013 for CBS Regional)
(IND-TEN OAK-CLE CIN-BAL JAX-NE SD-MIN PIT-STL)
14.15 rating 4:30 pm CBS National (vs 16.9 in 2014 and 14.6 in 2013 for CBS National)
(CHI at SEA or BUF-MIA)
13.83 rating 8:20 pm NBC (DEN-DET) (vs 12.3 in 2014 for PIT-CAR and 13.5 in 2013 for CHI-PIT)

College Football: Week 4

Saturday
2.53 rating ABC 12:00 pm #22-BYU at Michigan
n/a rating ESPN 12:00 pm #8-LSU at Syracuse
n/a rating ESPN2 12:00 pm #20-Georgia Tech at Duke
2.76 rating ABC 3:30 pm Western Michigan at #1-Ohio State or Virginia Tech at East Carolina
3.16 rating CBS 3:30 pm Tennessee at Florida
1.45 rating NBC 3:30 pm Massachusetts at #6-Notre Dame
1.76 rating ESPN 3:30 pm #24-Oklahoma State at Texas
1.87 rating FOX 4:45 pm #3-TCU at Texas Tech
1.85 rating ESPN 7:00 pm #14-Texas A&M at Arkansas
2.18 rating ABC 8:00 pm #9-UCLA at #16-Arizona
2.07 rating FOX 8:30 pm #18-Utah at #13-Oregon
1.74 rating ESPN 10:30 pm #19-USC at Arizona State

Golf

PGA: Tour Championship (Atlanta)
1.27 rating NBC 12:00 pm Saturday Third Round
1.91 rating NBC 1:30 pm Sunday Final Round

Auto Racing

NASCAR Xfinity Series
0.64 rating NBCSN 8:00 pm Saturday VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 (Sparta, KY)

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
1.70 rating NBCSN 2:30 pm Sunday Sylvania 300 (Loudon, NH)

INDYCAR
Returns next year

FORMULA ONE
0.20 rating NBCSN 12:30 am Sunday Japanese Grand Prix

MLB

Saturday
1.15 rating FOX 1:00 pm PIT Pirates at CHI Cubs or TEX Rangers at HOU Astros

Sunday
n/a rating TBS 2:00 pm TEX Rangers at HOU Astros
1.13 rating ESPN 8:00 pm PIT Pirates at CHI Cubs

Soccer

Premier League
Saturday
0.34 rating NBCSN 7:45 am Tottenham vs Manchester City
0.36 rating NBCSN 10:00 am Manchester UNited vs Sunderland
0.21 rating USA 10:00 am Leicester vs Arsenal
0.36 rating NBCSN 12:30 pm Newcastle vs Chelsea

Sunday
0.27 rating NBCSN 11:00 am Watford vs Crystal Palace

Other

n/a

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About the Author

Mitch Metcalf
MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.