07/23/2021
I hope to write more extensively about what I interpret as a shrewd and aggressive power grab by ESPN to add more football and specifically college football to their portfolio of live rights, but for now, let’s focus on this week’s big news.
Oklahoma and Texas are heading to the SEC. It’s essentially a done deal.
The SEC currently is hoping to vote to offer invitations to Texas and Oklahoma as soon as sometime next week, an SEC source tells me. The vote will be 13-1.
In less than 48 hours we went from all quiet on the conference realignment front to total chaos. It’s the first domino to fall, and it’s unclear when and where this will end, as there are now dozens of offshoots of legitimate hypotheticals that suddenly have relevancy.
ESPN is the biggest winner in Oklahoma and Texas joining the SEC
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05/27/2021
Both ESPN and Fox rolled out college football announcements Thursday, and there’s a lot to unpack in both. To start with, let’s look at the real early part of the season, Week 0 and Week 1. Week 0 has been a growing focus in recent years, albeit not last year thanks to pandemiccancellations, but it looks to be back in more normal form this year, with ESPN featuring UCLA-Hawaii on Saturday, August 28 and Fox showcasing Nebraska-Illinois (on the broadcast Fox network) that day. (There are three other games that day as well, with Southern Utah-San Jose State and UConn-Fresno State both on CBSSN and UTEP-New Mexico State still set to be announced). And Week 1 looks to be very strong, especially with Fox starting with an Ohio State-Minnesota game in primetime Thursday on their broadcast network and sending their