More than 1 million households in the Atlanta TV market watched Alabama defeat Georgia in college football’s national championship game Monday night.
The game posted a 47.8 rating in the Atlanta market, meaning 47.8 percent of the market’s 2.41 million TV homes -- or about 1.15 million homes -- watched on average.
It was the highest rating ever in the Atlanta market for a college football game on ESPN, according to the network.
Still, the rating wasn’t as high here as in the Birmingham, Ala., market, which posted a 57.6 rating for the game.
Nationally, across the 56 metered markets, the game drew a 16.7 overnight rating on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU – up from a 15.3 rating for last season’s national championship game on the same networks but below the 18.8 rating for the inaugural CFP national title game at the end of the 2014 season.
TITLE GAME RATINGS
The 10 markets with the highest TV ratings for college football’s national championship game Monday night:
1. Birmingham, Ala. 57.6
2. Atlanta 47.8
3. Greenville, S.C. 31.9
4. Jacksonville, Fla. 29.0
5. Nashville, Tenn. 28.3
6. Knoxville, Tenn. 28.0
7. New Orleans 27.5
8. Austin, Texas 23.5
9. Columbus, Ohio 23.2
10. Memphis, Tenn. 22.8
Source: Nielsen figures provided by ESPN. Note: Ratings are ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU combined.
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