Monday, November 22, 2004
Bowl Championship Series in 2006 at FOX-TV
In TV college football, Fox will start at the top.
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On Monday, Fox will announce a four-year deal to carry four Bowl Championship Series games,according to an executive familiar with the negotiations, starting with bowls after the 2006 regular season. In displacing ABC, Fox will break into college football by paying at least $20 million annually each for the Fiesta,Orange and Sugar bowls as well as a new fifth BCS bowl to be played at the site of the national title game about a week before that game.
But even if that doesn't materialize, Rupert Murdoch's Fox already has opened up another front in its TV sports' rivalry with Disney's ABC and ESPN. And the big winner, so far, are the colleges who've found another buyer for the exploits of their student-athletes.
ABC keeps the Rose Bowl— and thus the BCS title game every four yearsusatoday
See actual lines for Rose Bowl gambling and all games of BCS 2004 / 2005 at Players-SB
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