Alabama’s 52-24 rout of Ohio State in the College Football National Championship game drew the sport’s smallest audience since 2005.
Alabama’s 52-24 rout of Ohio State in the College Football National Championship game drew 18.7 million viewers for ESPN’s family of networks on Monday. That puts it on pace to be the least-viewed championship game in college football’s era of staging an end-of-season matchup to determine the national champion. That number incorporates the viewers across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU and is down 27% from last year’s title matchup, a slightly closer blowout between LSU and Clemson.
