In the fall of 2010, a few eyebrows were raised when Fox Sports won the rights to the Inaugural Big 1O Championship Game, espically after Fox Sports lost the broadcast rights to the BCS, which lets face it, Fox Sports did an awful job with their coverage of the BCS.
Earlier this week when Conference USA inked a TV contract with Fox Sports which includes up to a minimum of twenty (20) football telecasts on the regional RSN's as well as a few basketball telecasts. However, what really stood out was that Fox had the right to put the Conference USA Football Championship Game on either Fox, FX, or FSN that will begin with the 2011 football season.
Then today, it was announced that Fox Sports had won the rights for the 2011 Pac 12 Championship game as well as increasing the number of regular season Pac 12 football games that FSN will televise.
When Fox Sports won the Conference USA TV rights, my thoughts were "yippy skippy", Fox will put the Conference USA Championship Game on FSN and no one will notice. Well with the announcement today that Fox Sports has won the rights for the Pac 12 Championship Game along with the previous announcement of Fox Sports winning the rights to televise the Big 10 Championship Game, all of a sudden, you are looking at a pretty strong triple header of college football the first Saturday in December on your local Fox affiliate.
A big question remains and that is how will Fox present the respective Conference Championship Games. I'm a strong supporter of Fox just tapping into the resources of the Big 10 Network as well as FSN's coverage of Conference USA & Pac 12 for the coverage the respective conference championship Games and leave the NFL guys out of it.
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