If they don’t, then the NFL is king and nothing matters.

Last year’s game at this Saturday slot was Steelers-Bengals on NBC. It got 14m viewers. There was also Bills-Chargers but that was stuck on Peacock as a test.



It’s hard to know what to compare these first round games to. There should be extra interest this year because it’s the first time.

The closest thing I can compare it to is last year’s semifinals. Washington-Texas got nearly 19m viewers. (Alabama-Michigan got 28m, but that feels like a special circumstance).

So you could say it’s not a semi-final, so it may get fewer viewers, but it’s also new so that should help. Either way, I think they should beat the NFl games.

But maybe not!