Also Off Topic: Sky Sports picks up NCAA Football

[Adam Bowie]

I hadn't really been paying attention, but a month or so ago, flicking around the sports channels I have access to in the UK, I realised that all the NCAA football here had disappeared. 

While I'd never say I was a massive fan, it was something to watch on a Saturday evening.

BT Sports used to carry it - for a long time they even had a channel called BT ESPN where it all sat. The ESPN branding disappeared a year or so ago. But BT Sports didn't renew, and nobody else covered it at all.

That's not completely true. Sky Sports has Notre Dame games, which I assume are a by product of their parent company NBC Comcast's deal with Notre Dame.

But that was it. And it was notable that during the NFL London games recently, a lot of coverage was made of a scheme the NFL is supporting in the UK - the NFL Academy at Loughborough University - to develop players who will develop to get into the US college system.

Anyway, midway through the season comes an email from NFL UK to say that Sky Sports has done a deal and NCAA College Football, starting today, will air on Sky Sports NFL (the channel that outside of Sunday/late-Monday/late-Thursday otherwise just airs highlights and docs).

I believe all the NCAA rights are bundled together here, but the schedule for today is Louisville@Miami, Wake Forest@Notre Dame and Washington@Oregon St, so make of that what you will.

My suspicion as ever is that very little money is changing hands based on the last minute mid-season deal. 

Adam

[Doug Eastick]

May your Saturday evenings now be filled with background sounds of marching bands and brass.

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