Current：Home > NewsSaturday's Texans vs. Ravens playoff game was ESPN's most-watched NFL game of all time -Clarity Finance Guides
Saturday's Texans vs. Ravens playoff game was ESPN's most-watched NFL game of all time
View
Date：2025-04-15 21:32:26
ESPN hit new viewership highs for NFL coverage on Saturday afternoon with the help of how one NFL playoff matchup lined up.
Saturday's Houston Texans vs. Baltimore Ravens game in the divisional round of the playoffs was the most-watched NFL game ever broadcast by ESPN. According to early reporting from Nielsen, 31.8 million people tuned in to watch the Ravens' 34-10 victory.
The news marks the second straight year that ESPN has hit a new record high on their final NFL broadcast of the season. Last year, the Cowboys-Buccaneers wild-card game on Monday night set the previous record at 31.2 million.
According to a press release from ESPN, five of the top seven most-watched NFL games on ESPN – dating back to 1987 – have taken place this season from playoff and "Monday Night Football" viewers.
Saturday's Texans-Ravens game peaked at 36.2 million viewers.
NFL STATS CENTRAL: The latest NFL scores, schedules, odds, stats and more.
Ravens vs. Texans highlights:Lamar Jackson leads Baltimore to AFC championship game
veryGood！ (4612)
Related
- What do we know about the mysterious drones reported flying over New Jersey?
- Memo to the Supreme Court: Clean Air Act Targeted CO2 as Climate Pollutant, Study Says
- Watch as Wall Street Journal newsroom erupts in applause following Gershkovich release
- 'Chronically single' TikTokers go viral for sharing horrible dating advice
- Trump's 'stop
- Paris Olympics opened with opulence and keeps going with Louis Vuitton, Dior, celebrities
- Appeals court: Separate, distinct minority groups can’t join together to claim vote dilution
- Watch as Wall Street Journal newsroom erupts in applause following Gershkovich release
- Can Bill Belichick turn North Carolina into a winner? At 72, he's chasing one last high
- Jobs report: Unemployment rise may mean recession, rule says, but likely not this time
Ranking
- IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes and braces for cuts with Trump and GOP in power
- One Extraordinary (Olympic) Photo: Gregory Bull captures surfer battling waves in Tahiti
- One Extraordinary (Olympic) Photo: Gregory Bull captures surfer battling waves in Tahiti
- Swimmer Tamara Potocka under medical assessment after collapsing following race
- Don't let hackers fool you with a 'scam
- Miss Teen West Virginia Has the Perfect Bounce Back After Falling Off Stage at Competition
- Death of a Black man pinned down by security guards outside a Milwaukee hotel is ruled a homicide
- Simone Biles and Suni Lee aren't just great Olympians. They are the future.
Recommendation
SFO's new sensory room helps neurodivergent travelers fight flying jitters
Harris has secured enough Democratic delegate votes to be the party’s nominee, committee chair says
New York politician convicted of corruption to be stripped of pension in first use of forfeiture law
Olympian Kendall Ellis Got Stuck in a Porta Potty—& What Came Next Certainly Doesn't Stink
As Trump Enters Office, a Ripe Oil and Gas Target Appears: An Alabama National Forest
Surfer Carissa Moore says she has no regrets about Olympic plan that ends without medal
Trump election subversion case returned to trial judge following Supreme Court opinion
Anthony Volpe knows these New York Yankees can do 'special things'