Keelon Russell leads Alabama's answer to LSU in Baton Rouge

ESPN College Football's highlights draw an unusually large audience, while viewers ask about a punt return left out of the edit.

Channel: ESPN College Football Story of November 9, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 726,343 views a day, 34 times a normal first day on this channel (21,276).

Alabama Crimson Tide vs. LSU Tigers | Full Game Highlights | ESPN College Football

LSU takes the lead, then Josh Ford finds himself wide open in the end zone. Alabama's answer arrives almost immediately, turning a brief Tigers advantage into the start of a decisive Crimson Tide finish.

Keelon Russell throws three touchdown passes in Alabama's 31-13 victory at Tiger Stadium. ESPN College Football's highlights drew roughly 726,000 views in their first day, far beyond the channel's usual audience for a regular upload.

The edit captures a game that takes some time to separate. An end-around gives Alabama an early touchdown, and Luke Metz intercepts an LSU pass, but the Tigers stay close enough to move in front with a goal-line score. Ford's answering touchdown and a later deep scoring throw from Russell change the shape of the afternoon.

Beneath the highlights, viewers are discussing Alabama's defensive finish as well as its quarterback. Another recurring point is about the highlights themselves: commenters want to know why a Ryan Williams punt return did not make the cut. The first-day comment section is almost two hundred times busier than usual for the channel's regular videos.

Alabama-LSU also carries into ESPN's postgame programming, with Paul Finebaum and Matt Barrie examining the defeat and Lane Kiffin's first season at LSU. Georgia's win over Ole Miss and Oklahoma's victory over Florida drew unusually large highlights audiences too, but the Alabama game drew the largest first-day audience among those uploads.

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The numbers

The Alabama-LSU highlights drew far more views and comments than ESPN College Football's usual regular upload.

the video's first day

usual first day here

21,276

this video

726,343

subscribers

1,430,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,690,402,484

views per day

4,751,055

typical day: 3,118,062

the video

views

789,269

likes

5,934

comments

826

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

SportsCenter NEXT

1,500,000

ESPN College Football

1,430,000

The Herd with Colin Cowhe…

1,420,000

NFL Films

1,400,000

SPORTSNET

1,280,000

CBS Sports

1,250,000

As of November 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.