Deion Sanders has set out to defend Colorado State's Henry Blackburn after the defensive back injured Colorado's star 2-way player/receiver star Travis Hunter on late hit sideline play.
Blackburn was flagged for the play. The injury will likely cost Hunter a few weeks of the season due to having a lacerated liver.
Here's what Jason & John had to say after hearing Sanders' thoughts on the death threats toward Blackburn:
The Colorado vs. Colorado State game was the 5th-most watched college football game ever witnessed on an ESPN platform.
For the third consecutive week, ESPN platforms presented the most-viewed college football game of the week, as Colorado State/Colorado delivered 9.3 million viewers on ESPN in the late prime window. The Rocky Mountain matchup is ESPN’s fifth most-watched game on record (since 1990) and ESPN’s most-streamed regular season college football game on record.
The Rams/Buffs battle becomes ESPN’s most-watched late prime game all time and is ESPN and ABC’s fourth best regular season game (excluding conference championships) in six years. The audience peaked with 11.1 million viewers from 11-11:15 p.m. ET.
Overall, ESPN platforms registered four of the top five games in Week 3 and represented 65 percent of all college football viewing minutes across all networks. ESPN platforms also own the top three most-watched games of the 2023 season through Week 3.
Saturday saw 3.5 million average viewers across all ESPN platforms (total day viewing), marking its most-viewed regular season college football Saturday in nearly a decade (Nov. 2014). This weekend featured the top Sunday (12.1 million uniques) and No. 2 Saturday (16.5 million uniques) ever for college football content across ESPN digital platforms.
Additional Viewership Highlights:
Tennessee at Florida on ESPN: The Vols/Gators showdown recorded 5.3 million viewers in primetime on ESPN, the fourth best regular season college football game on ESPN since 2019.In addition to four of the top five most-watched games of the week, ESPN platforms scored seven of the top 10 most-viewed games of Week 3.ESPN platforms won the weekday, Saturday noon, Saturday prime and Saturday late prime windows this week.
College GameDay Kicks Off Historic Viewership Day in Colorado
College GameDay Built by The Home Depot delivered a banner day from Boulder, with the premier pre-game show averaging 2.3 million viewers across ESPN and ESPNU – GameDay’s best September episode since 2010 – to take the top spot among all college football pre-game shows across all networks. In the final hour, 3 million viewers tuned in for the legendary Lee Corso’s 400th Headgear Pick as ESPN platforms averaged 2.5 times as many viewers as the competition.