Rating Network Week Away Home
3.5 CBS Week 8 Auburn LSU
2.6 NBC Week 8 USC Notre Dame
2.5 ESPN2 Week 8 Tennessee Alabama
2.2 ABC Week 8 Washington Stanford (Texas Tech vs Oklahoma - split coverage)
2.1 ESPN Week 8 Wisconsin Michigan State
2 ABC Week 8 Texas A&M Iowa State
1.5 ESPN Week 8 North Carolina Clemson
1.4 ESPN Week 8 West Virginia Syracuse
1.3 ESPN2 Week 8 Illinois Purdue
1 ESPN Week 8 Georgia Tech Miami
1 ESPN2 Week 8 Rutgers Louisville
0.5 FX Week 8 Oklahoma State Missouri
0.3 Versus Week 8 Air Force Boise State
Below is the number of times each network has had a college football game that received a high enough rating to be tracked/reported by Nielsen.
34 ESPN
23 ESPN2
17 ABC
5 CBS
4 NBC
2 FX
2 Versus
Below are the number of times each team has appeared nationally on a channel that has enough distribution and a high enough event rating that Nielsen tracks/reports on it. (Note so far .3 is the lowest that they have bothered to report on major networks - other networks like ESPNU, BYU-TV, CBSCS, FSN, BTN, & mtn are not considered to have enough distribution to track/report)
# Team
7 Notre Dame
5 Alabama
5 BYU
5 LSU
5 Miami
5 Michigan State
5 Ohio State
5 Oklahoma
5 Tennessee
4 Auburn
4 Clemson
4 Nebraska
4 Penn State
4 Texas
4 Wisconsin
3 Arizona State
3 Boise State
3 Florida
3 Georgia
3 Georgia Tech
3 Illinois
3 Louisville
3 Michigan
3 Missouri
3 North Carolina
3 Oklahoma State
3 Ole Miss
3 Oregon
3 Purdue
3 South Carolina
3 Texas A&M
3 USC
3 West Virginia
2 Air Force
2 Arizona
2 Arkansas
2 Baylor
2 Colorado
2 Florida State
2 Fresno State
2 Iowa
2 Minnesota
2 Pittsburgh
2 Stanford
2 Utah State
2 Virginia Tech
2 Washington
1 Central Florida
1 Cincinnati
1 Eastern Michigan
1 Florida Atlantic
1 Florida International
1 Hawai
1 Hawaii
1 Indiana
1 Iowa State
1 Kansas
1 Kansas St
1 Kentucky
1 Marshall
1 Maryland
1 Navy
1 North Carolina State
1 Northwestern
1 Ohio St
1 Oregon State
1 Rutgers
1 San Jose State
1 South Florida
1 Syracuse
1 TCU
1 Temple
1 Texas Tech
1 UCLA
1 Utah
1 Vanderbilt
1 Western Michigan
1 Wyoming