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LSU at Alabama Lands Huge Ratings

CBS announces LSU at Alabama attracted more viewers than any other non-championship game over last eight years
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CBS Sports announced that the LSU at Alabama game, which was not considered a prime- time game, delivered a massive audience  on Saturday. 

The game scored a fast national household rating/share of a 9.7/24, up 47 percent over last year’s 6.6/13 rating/share in prime time. 

The 9.7/24 was the highest-rated regular-season college football game (excluding conference championships) on any network in eight years.

LSU-Alabama had an average of 16.636 million viewers, and was the most-watched regular-season game between the teams since 2011, which was dubbed the "Game of the Century" and went to overtime.  

It delivered a 44 percent increase in viewership versus last year’s prime-time game (11.588 million).

The game peaked from 7:00-7:15 p.m., with 20.610 million viewers and an 11.8/26 rating/share.

Through the first 11 weeks of the college football season, SEC games on CBS had drawn more viewers at this point in the season since 1990, and is up +39 percent with 7.091 million viewers compared to last year’s 5.088 million.

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Christopher Walsh
CHRISTOPHER WALSH

Christopher Walsh is the founder and publisher of Alabama Crimson Tide On SI, which first published as BamaCentral in 2018, and is also the publisher of the Boston College, Missouri and Vanderbilt sites . He's covered the Crimson Tide since 2004 and is the author of 27 books including “100 Things Crimson Tide Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die” and “Nick Saban vs. College Football.” He's an eight-time honoree of Football Writers Association of America awards and three-time winner of the Herby Kirby Memorial Award, the Alabama Sports Writers Association’s highest writing honor for story of the year. In 2022, he was named one of the 50 Legends of the ASWA. Previous beats include the Green Bay Packers, Arizona Cardinals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, along with Major League Baseball’s Arizona Diamondbacks. Originally from Minnesota and a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, he currently resides in Tuscaloosa.

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