The Big Ten has announced its new, seven-year media rights deal with Fox, NBC and CBS that is believed to be the richest ever struck with a college sports conference.
A person familiar with the contracts tells The Associated Press that the conference's soon-to-be 16 member universities eventually will share more than $1 billion in revenue per year.
Starting in 2024, when USC and UCLA join the conference, Big Ten football Saturdays will be structured similar to the NFL.
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That means three marquee games being carried in consecutive time slots on three different major TV networks.