BATON ROUGE — LSU’s game against Tennessee on Monday in Tiger Stadium went down as the most watched college football game in the history of ESPN2, the network announced on Tuesday.
The LSU-Tennessee football game averaged a 3.1 rating and a 2,768,000 household impressions, making it the network’s highest-rated and most-viewed college football game in its 12-year history.
In addition, the telecast ranks as ESPN2’s second highest-rated and second most-viewed program ever, behind a 3.6 rating and 3,069,000 household impressions for the Oakland at Boston Major League Baseball divisional playoff game on Oct. 4, 2003.
Prior to Monday night, ESPN2’s highest-rated and most-viewed college football game averaged a 2.5 rating and 2,198,000 household impressions, set earlier this year when North Carolina State hosted Virginia Tech on Sunday, Sept. 4.