Michigan’s 30-24 victory Saturday over Ohio State on FOX was the most-watched college football regular-season game on any network since 2011, FOX Sports announced Wednesday. The hotly anticipated 2023 edition of “The Game,” college football’s fiercest rivalry, averaged 19,065,000 viewers with a peak of 22,900,000 viewers. It’s an 11% increase over the viewership in last year’s matchup — and the most-watched college football game in the history of FOX Sports. As noted by Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt on the broadcast, “The Game” was for perhaps the final time ever a de facto College Football Playoff game, with a path to the final four-team edition of the CFP through the Big Ten Championship Game (8 p.m. ET Saturday on FOX and the FOX Sports App). The CFP will expand to 12 teams next season, and given how highly ranked both Michigan and Ohio State usually are, the loser of future…
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