After four weekends completed for college football, the highest rated 3:30 p.m. game on cable television this year was this past Saturday's Clemson-NC State contest on ESPN

Per a release from ESPN, the contest averaged 2.185 million viewers, and it reached a peak of 4.5 million watchers in overtime. Compared head-to-head with a similar time slot in 2019, it was an increase of 42 percent in viewers for those who watched Louisville at Florida State on ESPN.

Saturday was the most watched 3:30 game on ESPN in week four since 2017.

Overall for the weekend, it was the sixth-most watched college football game behind Notre Dame-Wisconsin (noon on Fox, 5.369 million viewers), West Virginia-Oklahoma (7 p.m. on ABC, 4.502), Texas A&M-Arkansas (3:30 on CBS, 4.071 million), Tennessee-Florida (7 p.m. on ESPN, 3.282 million) and Rutgers-Michigan (3:30 on ABC, 2.806 million).

Among games on cable, only the Tennessee-Florida game in primetime topped NC State-Clemson.

NC State's other game on national cable was its Sept. 11 loss at Mississippi State. That game had 756K viewers on ESPN2 for its 7 p.m. kickoff. That is the third-most watched game on ESPN2 for a Saturday broadcast this fall so far and the second best primetime viewership behind the Kentucky-South Carolina matchup this past weekend that had an audience of 941K.

This Saturday's game against Louisiana Tech can be viewed online only on ACC Network Extra or ESPN+. It is a 6 p.m. kickoff at Carter-Finley Stadium.

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