[Pete Thamel] Per sources, the amount Fox is expected to get back for the cancellation of the Big Ten title game, which it owns the television rights to, is estimated in the $50 million range annually.

[u/Thomallister1291]

https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/2111241297298387030

[u/TJeffersonsBlackKid]

Since college football is officially a professional sport, I would be thrilled if the NFL decided to pulverize it and start playing games on Saturdays every week.

[u/Intelligent_Dress347 → u/TJeffersonsBlackKid]

But we wouldn’t get the weekly hype tweets on ratings from the ESPN PR account anymore 🤣 

[u/RontoWraps → u/TJeffersonsBlackKid]

Against federal law actually lol

[u/Calithrand → u/RontoWraps]

Edit~ Yeah, I was wrong. And I have no idea what I mixed up to get to that point.

[u/AdamSmithsApple → u/Calithrand]

It is a law from the bill that gave them their antitrust exemptions in 1961. And they have taken pretty much every possible day that isn't forbidden in it including competing with the CFP cause the restrictions only go through mid December. They would immediately start scheduling games every friday and saturday if it got repealed.

[u/AdamGreenthumb → u/Calithrand]

Dude (read as the most offensive slur applies most directly to you) how are you so confidently wrong about this in this sub?

[u/mr_grission → u/Calithrand]

Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961

[u/faders → u/TJeffersonsBlackKid]

It wouldn’t though.