College Football Wars | Where the Pac-12 Went Wrong | 5

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The Pac-12 was one of the most prestigious college football conferences in the nation, until its leading schools left for greener pastures with heftier media deals. Now, with only two teams left, the stakes are higher than ever for the Pac-12 to draw viewers. John Canzano, host of college sports podcasts The Bald Faced Truth and Canzano & Wilner, joins David to talk about what’s next for the teams and the sport as a whole. Later, we’re tapping in Chris Vannini of The Athletic to talk about cable television’s role in the conference shakeups, and the lucrative TV rights deals that prop up each conference.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of Business Wars, ad free right now.
0:06.0	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. I'm David Brown and this is Business Wars. business wars. Head to any local sports bar on a Saturday during college football season and you can bet you're in for a packed house.
0:47.0	Pictures of beer and baskets of wings are passed around as fans stay glued to the TV, cheering or jeering, as the of dedicated fans who continue to tune into these games week after week,
1:04.3	whether that's in their living room or the closest dive. In 2024, the famous Rose Bowl game
1:11.1	between Michigan and Alabama brought in just shy of 30 million viewers, according to ESPN,
1:17.0	making that the top sports cast outside of the NFL since 2018.
1:22.0	But the future of the sport is changing. After a major
1:25.4	realignment one of college football's most decorated conferences has become a
1:30.5	shell of what it once was. The PAC-12 has become the Pack 12 has become the pack too.
1:35.0	Meanwhile the lucrative media deals that have propped up so many of these conferences
1:41.0	are also changing shape and fans have just as much to watch off the field as they
1:46.2	do on it.
1:47.2	Giving us the play-by-play on the state of college football is John Kansano, host of the daily
1:51.8	sports talk radio show The Bald-Faced Truth, and half of
1:55.6	Kenzano and Wilner, a podcast focused on all things college football.
2:00.0	Later on, we'll be hearing from Chris Vanini.
2:02.4	He is a reporter covering college football for the athletic,
2:05.6	and he'll shine a light on how media deals shape the sport and what its on-air future may look like.
2:12.0	All that's coming up.
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