Tracking viewership for the first four games of the National League Championship between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers alongside the first three of the American League Championship between the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays, the NL games are averaging a greater audience. So far, the Game 3 matchup between the Phillies and Dodgers has the peak viewership for the playoffs with an average audience of 8.8 million viewers.

Game
Network
Date
Viewers P2+

LA DODGERS AT PHILADELPHIA
FOX
10/09/2008
7,735,000

LA DODGERS AT PHILADELPHIA
FOX
10/10/2008
5,022,000

PHILADELPHIA AT LA DODGERS
FOX
10/12/2008
8,837,000

PHILADELPHIA AT LA DODGERS
FOX
10/13/2008
7,705,000

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College Football: Quartet Of Upsets
Oregon State’s stunning upset of top ranked USC was only the harbinger of what was to come in a wild weekend of college football upsets. 
Oregon State’s victory last Thursday night drew 6.3 Million TV viewers, the largest audience for ESPN’s Thursday Night College Football this season.  The next day, the University of Michigan overcame a 19-point deficit to beat the (then) undefeated Wisconsin Badgers in front of 1.3 million ESPN viewers.
Meanwhile, the Southeastern …