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I think most people will be happy with the way this bidding war turned out: Fox Sports declined to match an offer from ESPN to televise Bowl Championship Series college football games from 2011 to 2014, the network announced Monday.Fox still has the rights for the next three years.
The Fiesta, Orange, and Sugar bowls will now reside on ESPN; the move also triggers a clause in the Rose Bowl's contract with the Disney/ABC/ESPN hydra that allows said hydra to move the Granddaddy to ESPN.
Upside: no more tortured Barry Alvarez and the BCS games move to a network that actually cares about college football year round. It was odd to turn on a BCS game only to get some weird smattering of announcers you've never seen before and endless cutaways to the band by a director obviously used to NFL games. Dude, check out those people with the funny hats. And they've got instruments! WE MUST EXPLORE THIS FASCINATING ODDITY.
And so forth and so on.
Downside: if you don't have cable you're out of luck. (But how can a serious sports fan exist without cable these days?) And if you're a playoff advocate this is another four years of the BCS mess.
(HT: Awful Announcing.)
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