{"id":81580,"date":"2025-10-24T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=81580"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:04:18","slug":"sec-week-9-betting-lines-it-just-means-more-eyeballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2025\/10\/24\/sec-week-9-betting-lines-it-just-means-more-eyeballs\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Week 9 Betting Lines: It Just Means More Eyeballs"},"content":{"rendered":"

All eyes are on the SEC. No, literally, check the TV ratings. Before we go to the Week 9 SEC slate, let’s take a look at last week’s ratings (courtesy of Stewart Mandel of The Athletic).<\/p>\n

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  1. Ole Miss vs. UGA (ABC): 9.8 Million<\/li>\n
  2. Tennessee vs. Alabama (ABC): 8.0 Million<\/li>\n
  3. LSU vs. Vanderbilt (ABC): 5.9 Million<\/li>\n
  4. LSU vs. ND (NBC): 4.6 Million<\/li>\n
  5. Washington vs. Michigan (FOX): 4.3 Million<\/li>\n
  6. Ohio State vs. Wisconsin (CBS): 4 Million<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These are not a Week 8 anomaly; the SEC has dominated the ratings in 2025. Just like they did in 2024<\/a>. The partnership between the SEC and ESPN\/ABC has been a thing of beauty. Mr. Mandel also shared that 27 games this year have gotten at least 5 million viewers. ABC and ESPN have 21 involving 32 SEC teams. The B1G is a distant second, with 12 teams participating in a game with at least 5 million viewers. A note to the SEC, with them moving to nine conference games<\/a> in 2026, you may want to rework that deal. Here are three Week 9 games that may break the 5 million mark.<\/p>\n