SEC produced 2 games with more than 10 million viewers in Week 12, per ESPN
By Sydney Hunte
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The SEC continues to be a big ratings draw each Saturday, and Week 12 was no different.
According to ESPN’s weekly ratings report on its ESPN PR account on X, two games drew more than 10 million viewers. Oklahoma‘s win over Alabama on ABC pulled in 10.5 million viewers, peaking at 14.1 million and ranking as the highest-rated game of the weekend. In fact, it was the fifth-highest watched game of the season.
Right behind that one was Georgia‘s blowout of Texas on ABC, seen by 10.4 million viewers and peaking at 12.1 million. It was the highest-rated primetime game of the week and the seventh-most-watched this season.
With two games reaching the 10 million plateau on ABC, it marks just the third time since 1996 that it’s achieved that milestone. The other two times were in Week 8 in 2024 and the first week of the 2025 season. All told, looping in the Pitt-Notre Dame noon kickoff, ABC’s three games on Saturday made up the network’s second-most-watched triple-header of the year.
Week 13’s slate on ABC features Oklahoma vs. Mizzou at noon ET before Texas faces Arkansas at 3:30 p.m. ET. Florida vs. Tennessee rounds things out at 7:30 p.m. ET. Meanwhile, Vanderbilt vs. Kentucky (3:30 p.m. ET) is the lone SEC game on ESPN.
Sydney is an Atlanta-based journalist who has covered everything from SEC and ACC football to MLS, the U.S. men's national soccer team and professional tennis. His work has appeared on such platforms as SB Nation, Cox Media Group and FanSided.
