Texas Leads College Football Viewership This Season

(KMDL-FM) The current NCAA Football season is officially entering its fourth week. We've already seen some incredible games. The upcoming weekend has some really incredible matchups too. But which college football teams are fans across the nation tuning in to see every Saturday?

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The fact that the majority of the top ten list of most-watched college football teams, according to the folks at Nielsen, they are the TV ratings, people, are all member schools of the Southeastern Conference.

Southeastern Conference Dominates TV Ratings for Football

Three of the remaining four schools are members of the Big 10 conference, and the school that comes in as the 10th most-watched college football program is a member of the ACC.

But I think they only earned a spot on the list because they played a high-profile SEC school to start the season, and yes, we are talking about Clemson.

Only One School Has Stronger TV Ratings Than LSU This Season

The NCAA football team that has attracted the most eyeballs from college football fans so far this season is the Texas Longhorns. They had a huge game against Ohio State, which is number 3 on this list. The Longhorns will have another large audience this Saturday when they travel to Knoxville to take on the University of Tennessee, which did not earn a spot on the top-ten list.

The number two school, according to Nielsen for football fans on TV, is the LSU Tigers. Some 8.495 million viewers have tuned into a Tigers game on television this year. Saturday's game with Texas A&M should draw a lot of viewers as well. Texas A&M was not on the top ten list, by the way.

Who Does LSU, The Ragin' Cajuns, and the McNeese Cowboys Play on Saturday?

So, the top three are Texas, LSU, and Ohio State. Coming in at number four is Wisconsin, followed by Michigan. The bottom five of the top ten are made up of Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Alabama, Kentucky, and the aforementioned Clemson.

As far as Louisiana's college football weekend goes, LSU hosts Texas A&M at 6:30; ABC will have that game. Louisiana's Ragin Cajuns are in Charlotte, North Carolina, to take on the Charlotte 49ers. That game will kick off at 5:30 Louisiana time. McNeese hosts East Texas A&M in Lake Charles, with kickoff at 6 on Saturday night.

The ULM Warhawks have homecoming this weekend; they'll host Florida Atlantic. Tulane hosts the Southern Miss Golden Eagles; Northwestern State and Southeastern Louisiana will hook up in Natchitoches. Louisiana Tech has the weekend off; they will face Army on October 3rd.