In case you haven’t been following the Big Ten’s TV rights negotiations—and I do hope you’ve had better things to do—the most significant development is that the league will be leaving ESPN. The Big Ten will instead cast its lot with Fox, CBS, and NBC.
Big money involved, lots of moving parts, etc. etc. But I couldn’t help but ponder what this means for me, the fan of an ACC school—the league with the ESPN contract. ESPN’s current deal with the Big Ten has it televising about two Big Ten games per week during football season.