College GameDay Week 7 joins upper echelon of weekly show in past 5 seasons
By Ethan Stone
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College GameDay did numbers in Week 7.
The popular pregame show’s return trip to Knoxville was only the 5th show in the past 5 seasons to top more than 2.2 million viewers. It was up 16% in viewership from 2021’s Week 7 show.
The show also totaled just south of 3 million viewers in the final hour.
? @CollegeGameDay‘s return to @UTKnoxville is the 3rd episode this season to top 2.2M viewers!
Only 5 episodes have hit that mark the previous 5 seasons combined
This week’s @Vol_Football show:
? 2.2M viewers
? Up 16% over ’21’s Week 7
? 2.98M final-hour viewers pic.twitter.com/e606Lnb3AZ— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) October 18, 2022
And the show on the field didn’t disappoint either. It was one of the best games of the season so far, seeing the Volunteers come out o top 52-49 in front of a raucous home crowd.
Next week, College GameDay travels to Eugene, Oregon to oversee Oregon’s battle against UCLA.
Ethan Stone is a Saturday Down South News Editor and an advocate for the return of the Seattle Supersonics.
