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ESPN Has One Week to Keep the College Football Playoff
ESPN's exclusive talks to keep the College Football Playoff are "tough sledding," per Sports Business Journal, with a week left before the October 9 deadline. The sticking point is replacing the conference championship games a 24-team playoff would eliminate: the SEC title game alone is worth about $100 million, and all FBS title games together about $250 million. If no deal is reached, the rights go to market, where Fox, NBC and Prime Video could bid. Also today: India's ISL splits its rights between Sony and YouTube and gives clubs viewing data for the first time; Bridgestone becomes…
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