Army-Navy Game Among Most Watched College Football Games of Season

The Army-Navy game is regularly one of the most popular matchups of the college football season. Played in between conference championship week and the start of Bowl Season, it is a standalone contest that fans of every program tune in to watch. This year’s game was dominated by the Navy Midshipmen. They took home the Commander-in-Chief’s trophy with an impressive 31-13 victory over the Army West Point Black Knights in Landover, Maryland. Despite the lopsided affair, it was among the most-watched games not only of the 2024 season but in the last three-plus decades of the rivalry game. As shared by Navy Football on X, the annual rivalry game averaged 9.4 million viewers on CBS. That is the most for the Army-Navy game since at least 1990. Just how popular was the game from a viewership standpoint? The only game that was aired on CBS this year that had more average viewers was the Big Ten Championship Game played between the Oregon Ducks and Penn State Nittany Lions, the No. 1 and No. 3 ranked teams in the nati