Hello Celebritys

The ratings for Saturday nights TCU-Oregon State game are in, and they look pretty good.

From SportsMediaWatch.com

ESPN drew a 2.7 overnight for Miami (OH)/Florida on Saturday afternoon, the network's highest college football overnight of the day. The game edged TCU/Oregon State on Saturday night, which drew a 2.6 overnight. Elsewhere on Saturday, Texas/Rice drew a 1.8 overnight.

And from a local perspective, PegasusNews.com has this…

Saturday's prime-time game from Cowboys Stadium, a 30-21 TCU win over Oregon State, averaged 291,811 D-FW viewers in wiping out all competing programming.

SMU's gutty 35-27 Sunday afternoon loss to Texas Tech in sweltering Lubbock drew 142,512 viewers to likewise outpoint all competing programming.

Hmmm, but I thought nobody in Dallas/Ft. Worth cared about the Frogs and they couldn’t deliver the market because it was all Big XII?

**Update 09/09 from Sports Media Watch**

Saturday's Oregon State/TCU game drew a 2.3 U.S. rating and 3.660 million viewers on ESPN, down 18% in ratings and 20% in viewership from BYU/Oklahoma last year (2.8, 4.562 mil), but up 44% and 42%, respectively, from Illinois/Missouri in a later timeslot in 2007 (1.6, 2.585 mil).