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LSU Was A Massive TV Draw During College Football's Opening Weekend

By Staff Reporter•Sep 10, 202611:05 am•

IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect

LSU was one of the biggest draws in college football during Week 1, both on Saturday morning and later that night.

ESPN's College GameDay averaged 2.8 million viewers for its season-opening show from LSU's campus, making it the third-most-watched regular-season episode in the show's history and the second-most-watched opening weekend edition ever.

The final hour of GameDay averaged 3.5 million viewers as the show celebrated its 500th road episode and 15th trip to LSU.

The big numbers continued later that night when LSU hosted Clemson in Lane Kiffin's debut with the Tigers.

LSU's dominant 51-10 victory over Clemson averaged 5.8 million viewers on ABC, making it the most-watched game of ESPN's Week 1 slate.

For comparison, Auburn's win over Baylor drew 4.2 million viewers, while Alabama's win over East Carolina averaged 3.8 million.

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TBoy•27 days

This is a powerful statement of how important LSU is to the SEC and college football in general.

K2LAW•27 days

Exactly

TigerFanFromBama•27 days

Sept 19th will double that

schwartzy•27 days

Lane is good for LSU and good for the sport and good for ratings.

Those numbers were no accident, and neither was that beatdown. Lane is a hell of a coach to turn that dumpster fire around from last year

TheGeauxt9•27 days

Must watch TV, everyone wants to see the hot girl again

Boyntonbeach Tiger•27 days

Pics

BigTigerJoe•27 days

But, Paul said, ESPN will find another location to go to besides Baton Rouge.

HuntinFishin25•27 days

And the 'SKANK' wants to put his foot on LSU's neck permanently? Time for LSU to do some research to determine their options outside of the SEC. NUFF SAID!

cajunmud•27 days

You want big views...showcase a beautiful girl with big tits...or LSU Football...baseball...gymnastics...

Alexsportsdad•27 days

That’s our team!!

HeadSlash•27 days

8.7 million viewers can't be wrong. Run them out of the sec.

TigerBlitz03•27 days

LSU is a draw!!!!! Always have been...

KCT•26 days

"ESPN's College GameDay averaged 2.8 million viewers for its season-opening show from LSU's campus, making it the third-most-watched regular-season episode in the show's history." - Well, Gameday has only done 500 shows. Small sample size (Sarcasm).

Solo Cam•26 days

LSU will be top of this list for 1/4 of the season. week 1. then vs ole miss, home vs texas and home vs Bama will all be #1 in the country those weeks

LSUgmoney•27 days

guess we know who has the leverage in this fiasco

Tigerbait8•27 days

I find these numbers extremely inaccurate. There’s close to 5 million people alone in Louisiana. I’d imagine just about every football fan in America was watching this prime time slot.

NebraskaExPat•27 days

Everyone watched because of the controversy.

LaSportsFan1•27 days

And stayed because of what they were seeing; a dominant LSU football team.

HuntinFishin25•27 days

Sit down cornhole!!!

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