Week 8 College GameDay show at Georgia was one of ESPN’s best ever
By Jacob Moss
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Athens, Georgia, has become a popular destination for the College GameDay crew in recent years, and they made another trip to the Classic City this past weekend for the thrilling shootout between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Ole Miss Rebels.
Fans and students alike packed the live broadcast as usual, but ESPN also announced that the stats from the live broadcast show that this was one of the most-watched College GameDay broadcasts of all time.
According to a post put out by the official ESPN PR X account, Week 8’s edition of GameDay was the fourth-most-watched episode of the program ever, averaging 2.7 million viewers from 9 a.m. to noon, a peak viewership of 3.9 million, and 3.6 million viewers during the final hour of the broadcast.
That final hour viewing statistic rated as the second-best final hour ever, beating competing programs by over 200%. This was also the second-highest female audience ever for a GameDay broadcast as well, at 35% of the total audience.
Over the course of the 2025 season so far, College GameDay is outpacing their numbers from the 2024 season by 28%, and they have already notched 7 of the most-watched regular-season shows ever in the history of the program.
On Saturday, GameDay will broadcast live from Nashville ahead of the matchup between No. 10 Vanderbilt and No. 15 Missouri.
