Chelsea
10-16-2005, 03:02 PM
[NBC PR]
NEW YORK - October 16, 2005 - Yesterday's USC-Notre Dame football game earned the best overnight rating for a Notre Dame game in more than a decade. The 7.9 overnight rating and 17 share was the highest since Notre Dame-Michigan earned a 8.4/21 overnight on Sept. 10, 1994.
The rating peaked at a 14.2/27 from 7:30-7:45 as USC QB Matt Leinert scored with three seconds remaining leading the Trojans to a dramatic 34-31 victory. Notre Dame had taken the lead with 2:02 left. No. 9 Notre Dame had been bidding to end No. 1 USC's 28-game winning streak.
Notre Dame on NBC analyst Pat Haden called the contest, "as entertaining a last three minutes of a college football game as I've ever seen."
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(Later on in the PR, they mention the NASCAR race delivered the best ever rating for the Fall Lowe's race...a 4.8/8)
NEW YORK - October 16, 2005 - Yesterday's USC-Notre Dame football game earned the best overnight rating for a Notre Dame game in more than a decade. The 7.9 overnight rating and 17 share was the highest since Notre Dame-Michigan earned a 8.4/21 overnight on Sept. 10, 1994.
The rating peaked at a 14.2/27 from 7:30-7:45 as USC QB Matt Leinert scored with three seconds remaining leading the Trojans to a dramatic 34-31 victory. Notre Dame had taken the lead with 2:02 left. No. 9 Notre Dame had been bidding to end No. 1 USC's 28-game winning streak.
Notre Dame on NBC analyst Pat Haden called the contest, "as entertaining a last three minutes of a college football game as I've ever seen."
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(Later on in the PR, they mention the NASCAR race delivered the best ever rating for the Fall Lowe's race...a 4.8/8)