Even though AAC schools will not sign a grant of rights, the conference works out a renewal with ESPN. Expect rights fee to settle in the $8 million per school range — up from its current $2 million per school, but below the $10 million per school that the AAC wants. All eyes will be on Central Florida and Cincinnati, which will be open to bolting for a bigger conference. But neither school will leave the AAC because the Big 12 is not going to expand — at least not this year.
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the Mountain West will forsake ESPN’s rights fee to regain control of when they can schedule their games. In deals that will be closely followed by every mid-level college conference, I expect the Mountain West to sign deals with ESPN for a handful of games and Facebook for the rest.
https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Jou ... media.aspx
SBJ Prediction: The American Athletic Conference will renew its ESPN deal.
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ajcalhoun: Nobody here gives a flying fuck about UL-L and the Sunbelt Conference.