Arkansas-Missouri lowest-rated game of the year for CBS

FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas-Missouri was the lowest-rated college football game on CBS this season.

Last Friday's game earned a 1.3 rating. That is half of the 2.6 rating the game scored last year when the Tigers were playing for the SEC East championship and down from a 2.8 rating for the Razorbacks' Black Friday game at LSU two years ago, according to Sports Media Watch.

CBS' previous lowest-rated broadcast this season had been 1.7 for a game between Georgia and Vanderbilt in September. A rating is the percentage of TV-watching households that tunes in to a program.

Arkansas-Missouri went up against one of the most-watched games of the week - a matchup between undefeated Iowa and Nebraska. That game scored a 3.5 rating for ABC, giving the network its highest Black Friday rating for a college football game in nine years.

Among metered games, the Missouri game was Arkansas' second lowest-rated of the season, ahead of the season-opener against UTEP. Viewers are not measured for games on the SEC Network, which aired the Razorbacks' games against Toledo, Auburn and Tennessee-Martin.