LSU’s 42-25 victory over defending champion Clemson in the battle of the Tigers drew 25.6 million viewers, a slight 1% rise from last year’s game.
That number incorporates the viewers across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPNEWS (the network aired the game on multiple networks as part of its annual “Megacast” but ESPN Classic and SEC Network are not Nielsen rated). Of that audience, 25 million watched on ESPN, which was up 3% from the ESPN-only audience from the 2019 championship game.
The Megacast viewership peaked at 29.2 million around halftime, after LSU took the lead for the first time late in the second quarter (9:45 p.m.-10