NEW YORK—Fox Sports is reporting record viewing levels for the Ohio State-Michigan college football matchup that peaked at 22.9 million viewers and averaged 19,065,000 viewers.
That made it the most-watched regular season college football game on any network since 2011 and the most-watched regular season college football game in Fox Sports history.
The game was also up 11% from the 2022 Ohio State-Michigan game, which attracted 17,138,000 viewers.
With both teams ranked in the top four, viewing for the game was also the third highest rated game in their long standing rivalry, behind the 21.06 million who viewed Ohio State-Michigan “Game of the Century” in 2006 when the two teams were ranked #1 and #2, and the 1978 game that attracted 19.24 million according to ratings from Sports Media Watch.