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College Football TV Ratings: Tracking the most-watched games of the 2026 season

Through the first four weeks of the 2026 college football season, Nielsen ratings reveal that a thrilling Week 2 contest between Texas and Ohio State has drawn the largest audience, pulling in roughly fourteen million viewers on ABC after the Longhorns erased a twenty-three point deficit to secure a twenty-four to twenty-three triumph. Arch Manning contributed a touchdown pass during that comeback surge, while Hollywood Smothers ran for a pair of scores including the decisive touchdown.

Later in the month, a Week 3 showdown on ABC brought nearly eleven million people to their screens as Ole Miss defeated LSU, highlighted by Trinidad Chambliss accumulating over three hundred passing yards alongside two scores through the air and a rushing touchdown that sealed the outcome. In Week 4 action, Texas traveled to Neyland Stadium and fended off a late push from Tennessee in front of nine point seven million viewers, a broadcast anchored by Colin Simmons establishing a program record with five and a half sacks.

Another notable Week 4 broadcast featured Florida securing a victory over Ole Miss in Gainesville.

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