2009-2010 College Football Bowl Television Ratings (Updated January 12, 2010)

I saw a tweet pr Facebook posting from Mike Humes of ESPN Media Relations a couple of days ago. Someone had asked him if there was a web site where they could see the ratings for all of the college bowl games, including the BCS Championship. Mike replied that there was none. It turns out there is a reason why.


Online publications can only list the top 25 events for a given week. We have interpreted that to mean we could show the ratings for the top 25 bowl games. As ratings are only available for 18 games (22 later this week), this is an easy rule to comply with.

Here are the top 18 22 rated bowl games from December 19, 2009 through January 3, 2010 January 7, 2010. If the game you are interested in does not show here, it means that the game did not crack the top 40 for that week. Even worse, it means the games got beat out by shows like iCarly!

Once Nielsen officially releases the number for the games after January 3, 2010. or networks release information, we will update this table.


Updated January 12, 2010

Network	Game	Rating/Households (000's)
ABC	BCS Championship Game (Alabama 37  Texas 21)	17.2/19730
ABC	Rose Bowl (Ohio State 26  Oregon 17)	13.2/15143
FOX	Sugar Bowl (Florida 51  Cincinnati 24)	8.5/9766
FOX	Fiesta Bowl (Boise State 17  TCU 10)	8.2/9455
ABC	Capital One Bowl (Penn State 19  LSU 17)	6.8/7843
FOX	Orange Bowl (Iowa 24  Georgia Tech 14)	6.8/7815
ESPN	Valero Alamo Bowl (Texas Tech 41  Michigan State 31)	4.8/5553
ESPN	Emerald Bowl (USC 24  Boston College 13)	4.6/5289
FOX	AT&T Cotton Bowl (Ole Miss 21  Oklahoma State 7)	4.5/5220
ESPN	Chick-Fil-A Bowl ( Virginia Tech 37  Tennessee 14)	4.2/4852
CBS	Gator Bowl (Florida State 33  West Virginia  21)	3.9/4533
ESPN	Chanps Sports Bowl (Wisconsin 20  Miami (FL) 14)	3.9/4488
ESPN	Meineke Car Care Bowl (Pittsburgh 19 North Carolina 17)	3.9/4521
ESPN	AutoZone Liberty Bowl (Arkansas 20  East Carolina 17)	3.8/4332
ESPN	Pacific Life Holiday Bowl (Nebraska 33  Arizona 0)	3.7/4267
ESPN	Outback Bowl (Auburn 38  Northwestern 35)	3.5/4020
CBS	Sun Bowl (Oklahoma 31  Stanford 27)	3.3/3804
ESPN	Little Caesars Bowl (Marshall 21  Ohio 17)	2.6/2944
ESPN	Poinsettia Bowl (Utah 37  California 27)	2.4/2779
ESPN	New Mexico Bowl (Wyoming 35  Fresno State 28)	2.4/2750
ESPN	GMAC Bowl (Central Michigan 44 Troy 41 (2OT))	2.4/2705
ESPN2*	Independence Bowl (Georgia 44 Texas A&M 20)*	2.4/2334*
ESPN	MAACO Las Vegas Bowl (BYU 44  Oregon State 20)	2.2/2557
Source: The Nielsen Company *From ESPN