Awful Announcing
It looks like people won't have to buy Oklahoma Sooners football games on pay-per-view any longer, with that content instead moving to OTT monthly subscription service ESPN+.
"You’re not gonna accuse me of that without me responding to that because THAT INFURIATES ME."
The coach's show will return with a new name, a new star, and new promises that he'll stay there forever. Until, one way or another, he doesn't.
Many have long pushed for a nine-game SEC conference schedule, and the conference adding Texas and Oklahoma might lead to that.
"I would not assume that this is just happening, that one day the Texas and Oklahoma guys woke up, I would guess that it’s a logical sequence of events that ESPN now has all of the SEC, now they bring Texas and Oklahoma in."
"Let’s set the record straight: OU’s move to the SEC is what’s best for Oklahoma."
As per a CBS report from Dennis Dodd, Big 12 officials are considering offering Oklahoma and Texas an even larger percentage of conference revenues. But it's unclear if that will actually become a proposal, and if it would actually be enough to retain them.
Projections from May have the SEC paying its schools $66.9 million annually from 2024-25 on. To stay at that level after adding Texas and Oklahoma, it would need at least $134 million more in central revenue. But there's quite a good chance it can get that, likely mostly from ESPN.
A 3 p.m. Eastern start in 91-degree heat doesn't seem like great championship game conditions.
"We are bitterly disappointed that the Oklahoma-Nebraska rivalry, on the 50th anniversary of the Game of the Century, will kick off at 11 a.m."
ESPN and ABC may now have to do some schedule-shuffling.
Some conferences, including the Pac-12, are planning to start football later this year, but some Big 12 schools are not. Oklahoma moved up their Week One game to Week Zero, and Kansas found a new opponent to play in Week Zero after their Week One game against New Hampshire was cancelled.
Clemson-Ohio State drew 21.2 million viewers, up nine percent from last year's late-night semi.
