Maybe it was the return of blockbuster The Walking Dead on AMC at 9 PM for its sixth season, or the baseball playoffs, but in metered market results, last night's primetime Giants-San Francisco 49ers game on NBC got a 13.1/22 in metered-market results to hit a season low. Although it was a rise of just 2% over last year's SNF Week 5 game, the Giants' 30-27 victory was down 11% from the MM result that the New Orleans Saints' OT victory over the Dallas Cowboys drew on October 4.

A tight and tense game, with some determining moves by Eli Manning and Larry Donnell, saw the Giants win at home, but fast nationals-wise it was a no win for the network or the NFL. The result among adults 18-49 took a 33% hit from the final numbers of the October 4 game. Fast nationals to fast nationals, last night's Giants-49ers matchup was down 24% from last week. Viewershipwise, the zombie apocalypse was probably most profound, with a 33% drop to 16.13 million compared with last week. Now, those numbers will obviously change later as they always do for live events like SNF – though TWD may be already repeating its numerous wins over SNF of last season when we see the AMC show's numbers. As things are right now, NBC easily wins the night with a 5.0/15 rating and 14.11 million total viewers.