Week 13 of the NFL season started and ended on a down note in the ratings, but in between the league scored across-the-board gains on Sunday.
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Earlier in the day, FOX averaged a 9.9 and 19.17 million for singleheader coverage featuring either Titans-Eagles or Dolphins-49ers in 60% of markets — easily the highest rated and most-watched singleheader this season and the most-watched on FOX since 2019. For the first time this season, the singleheader outpaced NBC’s Sunday Night Football. MNF viewership has now declined in eight of the past ten weeks, but the full season average of 13.4 million viewers remains on par with last year. As previously noted, Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime posted its customary sharp decline from last year’s FOX/NFL Network simulcast.
As is almost always the case, the national window was the most-watched of the week. It has topped the charts in all but two weeks this season: Week 1, when FOX and CBS cannibalized each other with competing doubleheaders; and Week 12, when the three Thanksgiving games topped the charts.
College football's championship week delivered three of the season's top ratings, despite declines for the SEC and Big Ten title games.
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The SEC & B1G Championship games rank in the top 5 most watched games of the regular season.