The Big Ten football world is a strange and wondrous place right now, with four West Coast schools leaving the Pac-12 and joining one of the two most powerful conferences in the country alongside the SEC. One of the many important and mysterious aspects of life in the new Big Ten football theater of events is the television angle. How will the new Big Ten shape television choices, and how will those choices made by networks affect their ratings? It will be thoroughly interesting to see how the new 18-team Big Ten Conference resonates with a nation of television viewers. Compare this to the new 16-team SEC with Oklahoma and Texas now on board.
Mark Rogers, at The Voice of College Football, talks about the new television world faced by the Big Ten. Mark notes how the Big Ten being on CBS is not something new; it happened in the mid-1980s. What will be new is that ABC and ESPN will now be off the radar screen. Mark goes into the nuances of how Fox and ESPN used to share and balance Big Ten coverage, and now the new era with Fox in charge will create significant differences in media coverage and television viewership. One interesting aspect of all this: How will Big Ten Network game ratings compare to SEC Network game ratings? Listen to Mark’s analysis of college football television in the new Big Ten world at The Voice of College Football:
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