2015 College GameDay: Most-Watched, Highest-Rated Regular Season Since Show Expanded; Most-Streamed Season Ever on WatchESPN

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• ESPN: Three Most-Watched Three Hour Regular Season Episodes Ever
• WatchESPN: 14 Most-Streamed Episodes Ever; Significant Year-Over-Year Growth

In 2015, College GameDay Built by The Home Depot averaged 1,961,000 viewers per episode (14 shows), the most-watched regular season since the show expanded to three hours on ESPN in 2013. The record-setting viewership represents a 5% increase from last season and 7% from 2013:

Continuing the trend, this season, the traveling college football pregame show set a new high-water mark for household rating in the same three-year time period:

Additionally, College GameDay continues to either improve or keep pace in key demographics:

Note: The 2014 and 2015 figures do not include two-hour special from the Army-Navy game. The 2013 season includes a four hour episode (August 31, 2013) and the 2015 season includes a two and a half hour episode (Sept. 12, 2015) 

Most-Watched Episodes
Three times this season College GameDay set a new high-water mark for the most-watched three-hour, regular season episode, the most-recent being on Nov. 28 from Stillwater, Okla. (2,267,000 viewers). Overall, 5 of the 7 most-watched three-hour episodes occurred this season:

Note: There have been 44 three-hour regular season episodes of College GameDay, which includes the before-mentioned four hour and two and a half hour episode

Record Year on WatchESPN
College GameDay on WatchESPN had a record year with the 14 most-streamed episodes ever all occurring this season, led by the week 5 (October 3rd) episode from Clemson, S.C.  Top 3 episodes based on average minute impressions:

Overall, per episode, WatchESPN saw a growth of 77% in average minute impressions, 65% in total users, and 75% in total minutes viewed compared to the 2014 regular season.

2015 College GameDay – A Look Back

Fifteen weeks, it went by so fast my friend.

From familiar sites such as Forth Worth and Tuscaloosa, to rekindling memories in Ann Arbor, Clemson, Columbus, East Lansing, Indianapolis, Salt Lake, Stillwater, and Tucson, and making new memories in Harrisonburg and Philadelphia, College GameDay, well, it came to those cities. A look at some highlights:

• The Best of the Best Retrospective Piece
  • Footage from 1968 When Coach Corso was a Navy Assistant Coach
• Oh Did We Really See That?
  • Rinaldi and Wojo in an Ice Bath
• Desmond Goes Dabo
  • Watch Me
• Clemson: No. 1 in the Playoff and No. 1 in Crowd Antics
  • Yup, He’s Back
• Rain or Shine, The Show Goes On:
  • And the Crowd Loves it
• Look Who is Talking
  • Jeff Dunham Roasts the Crew
• The Newest College Football Craze:
  • Surrender Cobra
• Arriving Just in Time:
  • Ole Crimson
• Not Welcomed
  • Desmond Arrives in East Lansing
• Grab the Kleenex, You Will Need it:
  • For this, this, this, and this
• The HBC Becomes the Pseudo CGDC
  • Steve Spurrier Joins the Show
• Coach Corso Headgear Picks:
  • Wisconsin-Alabama
  • Oregon-Michigan State
  • Ole Miss-Alabama
  • UCLA-Arizona
  • Notre Dame-Clemson
  • Cal-Utah
  • Michigan State-Michigan
  • Richmond-JMU
  • Notre Dame-Temple
  • LSU-Alabama
  • Oklahoma-Baylor
  • Michigan State-Ohio State
  • Michigan State-Iowa
  • Army-Navy

College GameDay Commentators
Rece Davis  concluded his first season as host of College GameDay  in 2015. Each week he was joined by analysts Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard and David Pollack, as well as contributors Samantha Ponder, Tom Rinaldi and Gene Wojciechowski.

College GameDay at the College Football Playoff
College GameDay will be onsite for the College Football Playoff Semifinals and the National Championship Game Presented by AT&T. Full details will be announced soon.

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Media contact: Derek Volner at 860-384-9986; Derek.Volner@ESPN.com and @DerekVolner