2025 College Football Week 1 Viewership

A full list of Nielsen measured viewership of College Football games during Week 0 of the 2025 NCAA Division 1 College Football season.

This year, while continuing weekly posts, I will also maintain a larger page that will include every week of viewership. That will be located here.

There is a new standard the networks are using for Nielsen viewership (Big Data) which will generally slightly inflate their numbers becuase it measures more people. It takes longer to become avaliable, and I still have access to the old Nielsen panel viewership. I am doing my best to report both numbers for transparency.

Viewership information for cable networks not measured by Nielsen (ESPNEWS, CBSSN, ACCN and SECN) and streaming services (ESPN+ and Peacock) are not included in this table.

(Viewership is measured in terms of the “average audience”, or absolute number of viewers watching in an average minute of the game.)