{"id":128532,"date":"2026-01-23T00:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128532\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T00:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:56:07","slug":"indianas-cfp-victory-over-miami-averages-33-9-million-viewers-most-watched-game-in-11-years-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128532\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana&#8217;s CFP victory over Miami averages 33.9 million viewers, most-watched game in 11 years :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Top-seeded Indiana&#8217;s victory over Miami in the College Football Playoff national championship game on Monday night was the most watched college football game in 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Hoosiers&#8217; 27-21 victory over the 10th seeded Hurricanes for their first football national title averaged 30.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen. It also is the second-most watched CFP title game and cable telecast on record. Ohio State&#8217;s win over Oregon in January 2015, still has the record at 33.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN, it was the most-viewed, non-NFL sports telecast since Game 7 of the 2016 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland. It is the fourth-most watched college football game in the last 30 years and the eighth-most watched ESPN production since the network started in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN had its highest-viewed event on Sunday when the Houston Texans-New England Patriots NFL playoff game averaged 37.97 million.<\/p>\n<p>Monday night&#8217;s audience peaked at 33.2 million viewers in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The 11 College Football Playoff games averaged 16.3 million viewers in its second year of the 12-team format.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Top-seeded Indiana&#8217;s victory over Miami in the College Football Playoff national championship game on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[45294,25123,2205,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-128532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-ap-entertainment","tag-ap-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}