UCF-Michigan Scores Huge Local TV Ratings

UCF's loss to Michigan on Saturday scored big TV ratings, as it was watched by 2,863,000 million viewers on ABC, according to ESPN Public Relations. The Knights-Wolverines game was the third-most watched College Football game of the weekend behind only the Virginia Tech-Tennessee game (5.8 million viewers) and Tulsa at Ohio State (4.0 million), according to SportsMediaWatch.com.

If you include streaming online, The Knights-Wolverines was watched by approximately 2,918,000 viewers according to ESPN Public Relations.

Orlando was the fifth-highest rated market for the UCF-Michigan game, drawing an a 4.4 rating within in the Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne DMA, making it the most-watched UCF regular season game in Orlando since November 9th, 2013, when the Knights, ranked 19th in the country at the time, defeated Houston 19-14 in an AAC showdown at Bright House Networks Stadium. That game was televised on ESPN2, and did a 4.8 rating in Orlando.

The most watched UCF regular season football game in Orlando was also in 2013, when UCF lost 28-25 to Steve Spurrier's 12th-ranked South Carolina Gamecocks at Bright House Networks. That game was also televised on ABC with a noon kick-off. That was the first time UCF ever played on ABC. The game registered a 11.5 rating in Orlando.

The most-watched sporting events of last week, according to Hal Boedeker of Orlando Sentinel, was the New England Patriots-Arizona Cardinals Sunday Night NFL game on NBC, with the Florida State-Ole Miss game on Labor Day Night coming in a close second.