{"id":737240,"date":"2026-06-27T23:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/737240\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T23:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:18:25","slug":"2026-college-world-series-ranks-third-most-watched-all-time-espn-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/737240\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 College World Series ranks third most-watched all time, ESPN says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) &#8211; The 2026 College World Series ranked as the third most-watched in history, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The championship series between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/06\/21\/cws-2026-north-carolina-forces-winner-take-all-cws-final-after-lynch-glauber-cool-off-oklahomas-hot-offense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/06\/21\/cws-2026-north-carolina-forces-winner-take-all-cws-final-after-lynch-glauber-cool-off-oklahomas-hot-offense\/\">North Carolina<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/06\/20\/cws-2026-oklahoma-win-away-national-title-after-roughing-up-north-carolina-ace-game-1-cws-finals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/06\/20\/cws-2026-oklahoma-win-away-national-title-after-roughing-up-north-carolina-ace-game-1-cws-finals\/\">Oklahoma<\/a> averaged 2 million viewers, ESPN said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Oklahoma\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/06\/23\/cws-2026-oklahoma-wins-national-championship-winner-take-all-game-over-no-5-north-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/06\/23\/cws-2026-oklahoma-wins-national-championship-winner-take-all-game-over-no-5-north-carolina\/\">decisive Game 3 win<\/a> to clinch the national title drew 2.5 million viewers, making it the most-watched college baseball telecast of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Across all 15 games, the series averaged 1.5 million viewers \u2014 up 34% from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Only the 2023 and 2024 College World Series rated higher than the 2026 edition.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOWT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) &#8211; The 2026 College World Series ranked as the third most-watched in history, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[34310,91689,91685,91686,5,648,3318,91684,91687,1694,2341,2358,91688,5245,3315,13435],"class_list":["post-737240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-2023-college-world-series","tag-2024-college-world-series","tag-2026-cws","tag-2026-cws-tv","tag-baseball","tag-college-baseball","tag-college-world-series","tag-epsn","tag-how-many-people-watched","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-north-carolina","tag-north-carolina-vs-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma","tag-omaha","tag-tv-ratings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116824631115156165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}