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Ohio State’s lopsided 62-39 win over that Team Up North last Saturday drew the largest audience in Fox Sports history.

A massive audience of 13.2 million people watched the Buckeyes take down the Wolverines to earn a spot in the Big Ten Championship Game.

Fox Sports’ streaming service also saw its highest numbers ever, with 145,000 viewers per minute.

From Fox:

Last weekend’s rivalry matchup between Ohio State and Michigan, in which the Buckeyes defeated the Wolverines, 62-39, to earn a spot in Saturday’s Big Ten Championship Game, drew a massive audience of 13,200,000. The game ranks as FOX’s most-watched regular-season game ever and is up +26% over last year’s matchup (vs. 10,513,000). On FOX Sports streaming services, Ohio State-Michigan attracted an average-minute audience of 145,000, the platforms’ best-ever performance for a college football game.

Overall, the network saw its best week to date with a plus-56 percent increase in viewership from the 2017 season.

This is the third straight week that Ohio State has had a top-five rated game and the seventh time this season.

Of its five No. 1 finishes this season, its win over Michigan was the only one the Buckeyes played at home.

Only two other teams this season have multiple No. 1 finishes, with Alabama and Michigan both having three.

Last year’s Ohio State-Michigan game drew a 6.7 rating and 10,513,000 viewers on average, the best Fox had ever drawn for regular-season college football.

This year’s game didn’t just pass that, it clobbered that, pulling in a 7.5 rating and 13,200,000 TV viewers on average (a rise of 26 percent in viewership, and the audience goes to 13,345,000 if streaming viewers are included).

The Buckeyes have released this trailer in preparation for the B1G10 game against Northwestern this weekend:

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