The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
ESPN’s College GameDay shines spotlight on Texas
09.13.2022 | Football, Longhorn Foundation
The show averaged 2.1 million viewers with an audience of 2.7 million tuning in for the final hour.
AUSTIN, Texas – The eyes of the college football world were upon The University of Texas on Saturday, as ESPN's College GameDay drew its top Week 2 viewership in over a decade for pregame of Texas Football's matchup with No. 1 Alabama, the network announced on Tuesday.
ESPN's @CollegeGameDay is off to its best two-week start since '10
— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) September 13, 2022
🏈 Thru 2 weeks: 2.1M avg. viewers, up 19% over '21
🏈 Final hour at @TexasLonghorns: 2.7M avg. viewers, 66% higher than the competition pic.twitter.com/7fBR2DwdOv
The show, which drew huge crowds to the Lyndon B. Johnson Library Lawn on Saturday morning, averaged 2,104,000 million viewers on Saturday, an increase of 26% from 2021's Week 2 total. Additionally, the final hour of the show, broadcast live from inside Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., drew 2.7 million viewers.
ESPN College GameDay's viewership of 2.1 million was the highest Week 2 total for the show since 2010 and the best for a September episode since 2016.