Awful Announcing
The 10 Mountain West schools other than Hawaii and Boise State made $1.1 million per year per school under the current deals with CBSSN and ESPN. They could hit $3 million or more under these new deals.
"Urban Meyer took a shot at me out of nowhere when he was doing a very small interview for somebody..."
Plenty of coaches have gone into TV work, but there might be some particular challenges there for Petersen, especially given his history with ESPN.
Big Noon Kickoff averaged 1,979,000 viewers for its 11 a.m ET-noon hour Saturday. College GameDay averaged 2,725,000 viewers for its final hour, but 2,125,000 across its three hours, so Fox's peak is at least getting close to ESPN's average. And few would have predicted that when Big Noon Kickoff launched.
The race finished with audio only, and then video came back just before FS1 threw to college football.
Lou Dobbs got cut off for Nebraska-Minnesota.
"It was pretty obvious and pretty evident, even when I talked to my friends and peers at ESPN, that there’s no question about this. Leaving the personal relationships, I think, in anything we do is hard, but professionally there was simply no doubt."
After plenty of complaints about late games, the Pac-12 is now looking at early games.
Huard most recently worked with Bob Wischusen and Allison Williams on ESPN's fifth-listed team.
Both ESPN and Fox would likely be interested in Meyer if he did want to return to TV.
Fox's viewership for Ohio State-Michigan was a 26 percent bump over last year, and last year set a record as their best-watched regular-season game ever.
No. 5 Oklahoma vs. No. 6 TCU drew a 2.1 nationally, well behind Notre Dame - Miami (4.5) and Alabama - Mississippi State (3.8).
Fox has Oklahoma-Oklahoma State is in the afternoon, while Michigan-Minnesota is in prime time.
The 6.4 overnight was Fox's best regular-season college football rating ever, and their best non-bowl rating other than the 2013 Big Ten Championship Game.
