In 2020, UNC was a top-15 team that played #2 Notre Dame and #10 Miami in November and December and played in the Orange Bowl...and Nebraska played an 8-game conference-only schedule and went 3-5 and was not bowl eligible.

Even then, Nebraska was only 3M total viewers behind UNC's probably best ever regular-season total TV viewers.

Not including post-season games, Nebraska had over 20M viewers in 2019 and over 18M viewers in 2018...both years were better than UNC's 2020 performance. Nebraska's 4-year average is over 15M viewers per year.

UNC had about 8M total viewers in 2017 and 2019 and only at 2.6M viewers in 2018. The 16.6M viewers in 2020 brings UNC's 4-year average up to 9M total viewers per season.