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Message: <blockquote data-quote="topdecktiger" data-source="post: 129596754" data-attributes="member: 1459051">No, you are 100% wrong. The Big Ten signed its Tier 2 and Tier 3 rights with Fox/BTN until 2032. The SEC's Tier 1 rights are with CBS, and the Tier 2 rights are with ESPN. Here is a link with the contract the Big Ten signed in 2007, and the SEC signed in 2008.<a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">BIG TEN</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">First-tier rights: $1 billion, ESPN, 10 years through 2016-17</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Second-tier rights: $2.8 billion, Big Ten Network, 25 years through 2031-32</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Select basketball rights (minimum of 24 games, men’s tournament semifinal and championship games): $72 million, CBS, six years through 2016-17</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Football Championship Game: $145 million, FOX, six years through 2016</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Per-year average: $248.2 million</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Per-school, per-year average: $20.7 million</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">SEC</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">First-tier rights: $825 million, CBS, 15 years through 2023-24</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Second-tier rights: $2.25 billion, ESPN, 15 years through 2023-24</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Per-year average: $205 million</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Per-school, per-year average: $14.6 million</a>ESPN shows Tier 2 games on the SECN. The Big Ten shows Tier 2 games on BTN. There is not enough content to show 45 games on either network if you are only pulling from Tier 3 and expansion. The majority of games on either network are Tier 2 games.</blockquote>

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