College Football Bowl Games Ranked By TV Viewers
This year’s bowl season was fantastic. From a great CFP semifinal game between Clemson and Ohio State to a surprisingly entertaining Belk Bowl, there was plenty of excitement to go around and a lot of people watching. Here, we have gathered the TV ratings for every bowl game and ranked them from most viewers to the least viewers.
Bowl Game TV Rating Rankings
- CFP Championship Game — (25.00 mil)
- CFP Semifinal — PlayStation Fiesta Bowl (20.39 mil)
- CFP Semifinal — Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (17.20 mil)
- Rose Bowl Game by Northwestern Mutual (16.30 mil)
- Vrbo Citrus Bowl (14.00 mil)
- Allstate Sugar Bowl (10.22 mil)
- Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic (6.22 mil)
- Capital One Orange Bowl (6.07 mil)
- Valero Alamo Bowl (5.61 mil)
- Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl (4.89 mil)
- TaxSlayer Gator Bowl (4.32 mil)
- Camping World Bowl (4.17 mil)
- Outback Bowl (3.99 mil)
- New Era Pinstripe Bowl (3.78 mil)
- AutoZone Liberty Bowl (3.33 mil)
- Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl (3.17 mil)
- Quick Lane Bowl (3.05 mil)
- Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl (2.64 mil)
- Belk Bowl (2.62 mil)
- Cheez-It Bowl (2.62 mil)
- San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl (2.50 mil)
- SoFi Hawai’i Bowl (2.43 mil)
- Walk-On’s Independence Bowl (2.37 mil)
- Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl (2.20 mil)
- Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman (2.01 mil)
- Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl (1.99 mil)
- Redbox Bowl (1.87 mil)
- Celebration Bowl (1.81 mil)
- Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl (1.74 mil)
- TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl (1.59 mil)
- LendingTree Bowl (1.45 mil)
- Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (1.36 mil)
- SERVPRO First Responder Bowl (1.29 mil)
- Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl (1.25 mil)
- Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl (1.15 mil)
- R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl (0.96 mil)
- New Mexico Bowl (0.80 mil)
- Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl (0.74 mil)
- Camellia Bowl (0.69 mil)
Scores, participants, and attendance figures for each bowl game can be found here.
- Note: TV ratings for Cure Bowl and NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl unavailable.
- Note: Posted before national title game.
- Note: All ratings are an average.
(Ratings courtesy of Showbuzz Daily & Sports Media Watch)