We always like to say here at Buckeyes Wire that Ohio State football turns on television sets or streaming devices and gets the gaze of more than most college football programs out there. There’s a huge alumni base across the country, it’s the entire state of Ohio’s team more or less, and others across the country like a winner (or root for the winner to lose), so it gets plenty of eyeballs.
Well, now another stat has come out to prove that point, and it has to do with just this football season of 2022. According to “The Big House Podcast,” there are a couple of Big Ten teams that led the country in viewership and it’s really not even that close.
Sure, “it just means more” in the SEC, but that’s apparently across all the fanbases of the entire country. Here’s a look at the top ten college programs that pulled in the most viewers during the college football regular season.
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No. 9 (tie) - Clemson Tigers
Number of viewers in 2022
34.8 million
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No. 9 (tie) - Texas Longhorns
Number of viewers in 2022
34.8 million
8
No. 8 - TCU Horned Frogs
Number of viewers in 2022
36.3 million
7
No. 7 - Penn State Nittany Lions
Number of viewers in 2022
36.6 million
6
No. 6 - Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Number of viewers in 2022
39.8 million
5
No. 5 - LSU Tigers
Number of viewers in 2022
50.4 million
4
No. 4 - Georgia Bulldogs
Number of viewers in 2022
53.8 million
3
No. 3 - Alabama Crimson Tide
Number of viewers in 2022
62.2 million
2
No. 2 - Michigan Wolverines
Number of viewers in 2022
70.1 million
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No. 1 - Ohio State Buckeyes
Number of viewers in 2022
70.3 million
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