Criminal Minds, Big Brother, So You Think You Can Dance and The Middle all beat out the Democrat National Convention, last night. But NFL Football was the big winner - 14 million to 4 million.

Overnight ratings for Wednesday, September 5, 2012:

Time	Net	Show	18-49 Rating/Sh	Viewers (millions)
8:00	NBC	NFL Kickoff 2012- Live	5.5/17	14.32
	CBS	Big Brother	2.1/6	6.09
	FOX	So You Think You Can Dance	1.4/4	4.14
	ABC	The Middle - R	1.1/4	4.55
	CW	Oh Sit!	0.4/1	1.14
8:30	NBC	NFL Football (8:30-11PM) - Live	8.7/23	21.81
	ABC	Suburgatory - R	0.9/2	3.28
9:00	ABC	Modern Family - R	1.3/3	3.78
	CBS	Criminal Minds - R	1.2/3	5.16
	CW	Supernatural - R	0.3/1	0.78
9:30	ABC	Suburgatory - R	1.0/3	2.97
10:00	CBS	Democratic National Convention - Live	0.9/2	3.94
	ABC	Democratic National Convention - Live	0.9/2	3.54

Source:  TV By The Numbers