The biggest game of the college football season delivered a huge audience for ABC. Or put another way, Georgia and Texas delivered for Disney.

ESPN’s public relations department announced Monday that an average of 12.4 million TV viewers tuned in to see fifth-ranked Bulldogs’ 30-15 win over the top-ranked Longhorns from Royal-Memorial Stadium.

It was the most-watched college football game of the season so far. The audience peaked at 14.1 million, according to ESPN, and it was the most watched game on ESPN’s family of networks since the 2016 Ohio State-Michigan game (16.84 million).

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For years, the 25th-ranked Commodores were the SEC’s doormat. Not any more.

For Texas, it’s the first time this season the Longhorns have generated more than 10 million viewers. The Texas-Michigan game had an estimated 9.19 million watching back in week two.

This is also the second straight week Texas has pulled in a huge TV number. The Texas-Oklahoma game had 7.63 million watching at home, according to ESPN. That was the second most-watched game of the week behind Ohio State-Oregon, which had 9.6 million viewers.

Still, it was the second most-watched Texas-OU game since 2009, according to Sports Media Watch.

The boffo TV ratings number for the Georgia game only highlights why school officials are going to chase down whoever threw bottles onto the field in the third quarter.

This was Texas’ chance to showcase itself to the nation. And many fans watching at home saw Texas students throwing debris onto the field and briefly stopping the game after a perceived call didn’t go their way.

The call was corrected, according to the SEC, allowing a Jahdae Barron interception to stand. But not before the initial call of defensive pass interference triggered dozens of water bottles being thrown from the stands.

The SEC office fined the Longhorns $250,000 for the incident and forced the school to use all available resources to identity anyone who threw an object onto the field. UT President Jay Hartzell informed the student body that if a student is found to have done that, their ticket privileges will be revoked for the remainder of the school year.

It’s unclear what kind of ratings numbers the Longhorns will pull in the rest of the regular season. Only the regular-season finale against Texas A&M is guaranteed to post a big number.

Still, it’s clear the SEC is benefitting from all of these huge matchups in the new 16-team league. So far, SEC games on ABC have the top three most-watched audiences of the season.