by Mike Lowe | Aug 18, 2022 | College Basketball, College Football, General Sports, Sports Business, Sports Media
Today the Big Ten announced the completion of its long-awaited television rights deal that is set to go into effect at the start of the 2023-24 academic year. The deal runs for 7 years and is worth nearly $7.5 billion in total. Notably, it also contains escalators in...
by Mike Lowe | Jul 19, 2022 | College Football
Jim Johnson and I broke down our thoughts on how the Big Ten West shapes up on our weekly Sports Tonight podcast. Here’s my written summary, with teams listed in order of my predicted finish. In the East-West divisional era of the Big Ten, the West has been a little...
by Mike Lowe | Jul 6, 2022 | College Football
Jim Johnson and I broke down our thoughts on how the Big Ten East shapes up on our weekly Sports Tonight podcast. Here’s my written summary, with teams listed in order of my predicted finish. One of college football’s toughest divisions since it’s 2014 inception, the...
by Mike Lowe | Jul 2, 2022 | College Football
June 30, 2022 was one of the wildest days in college football history, despite not a single game being played. In all my years of following and covering the sport, and more specifically conference realignment, I cannot recall an instance where the news dropped that...
by Mike Lowe | Jun 30, 2022 | College Football
It was exactly 11 months ago today that Texas and Oklahoma accepted invitations to join the SEC no later than 2025. That triggered movement downstream that saw the Big 12 add four schools previously among the Group of Five, followed by some more shuffling among the...