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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/jonstark19 on 2024-11-22 13:31:02+00:00.
Aticle (paywall):
A few notable excerpts:
“To be very honest,” Penn State athletic director Pat Kraft said, “we signed up for this.”
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Fox largely deals the cards in this high-stakes game. Decisions made by its executives, from the preseason draft of premier games held among the networks holding league rights to the weekly distribution and selection of kickoff times, impact the menu of available inventory for the other networks.
And those choices reverberate on Big Ten campuses.
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The ratings are down slightly from last year. Ahead of the final three weekends in 2023, the Big Noon window averaged 5.02 million viewers, according to figures published by Sports Media Watch. This year, Big Noon averages 4.75 million viewers.
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“These are all unique circumstances,” Nebraska’s [AD Troy] Dannen said. “And trying to balance those, (multiplied by) 18, I understand the challenge. I have no reservations at all with the latitude we’ve given our television partners. The reality is, this was the schools’ decision, not Fox’s decision. What we wanted was what we got.”