;Colorado vs. Nebraska Football Sets NBC’s “Big Ten Saturday Night” Viewership Record
Fans watched the Huskers vs. Buffaloes game on average 6.3 million times.
The nation’s attention is still focused on Nebraska football.
On Monday, NBC Sports made data from the Saturday night game between the Colorado Buffaloes and Nebraska Huskies available to the public. The game took place in Week Two. When the Huskers defeated CU 28–10, an average of 6.3 million viewers watched the game, according to NBC.
It was Nebraska’s second broadcast on NBC in prime time, having been featured last season against Wisconsin. In that matchup, 2.45 million viewers watched the Huskers fall to the Badgers in mid-November.
The Nebraska-Colorado contest is the most-watched broadcast to date for the network’s
Big Ten Saturday Night series, which made its debut last season. It beat out the October 2023 contest between Ohio State and Wisconsin, which garnered 4.87 million viewers.
The Huskers will appear on NBC again for their annual Black Friday contest with Iowa at Kinnick Stadium. Nebraska and the Hawkeyes will kick off at 6:30 p.m. CST, matching the same evening start time as the Colorado matchup.
Other television viewership numbers had not been released Monday night. The Week Two slate featured a monstrous top 10 matchup between Texas and Michigan and a key night-cap contest featuring Boise State and Oregon, though the latter was streamed only on Peacock.
The Huskers will have another national over-the-air broadcast on Friday, Sept. 20, hosting Illinois at Memorial Stadium on FOX. Television designations have not yet been assigned to the Purdue, Rutgers, Indiana, Ohio State, UCLA, USC and Wisconsin contests. Nebraska welcomes Northern Iowa on Saturday to Lincoln for another night contest, kicking off at 6:30 p.m. CDT on the Big Ten Network.
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