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00:00 Sports Press Rick Horowitz with a $1.3 trillion business to sports with your Maxwell Minute.
00:09 Issues in college sports and football with off-field implications brought to you by the
00:14 Maxwell Football Club.
00:17 Biggest one is obviously television rights.
00:19 The playoffs, a $1.3 billion a year, six-year extension of the ESPN deal with the playoff.
00:28 It is an astronomical amount of money.
00:30 This last deal was $675 million a year.
00:34 This is double.
00:35 But wait, there were a lot of people that said because there were three meaningful games
00:39 in the last year of the deal in assets and there will be 11 going forward with the 12-team
00:46 playoff, everybody was thinking maybe it was going to be $2 billion a year or more.
00:50 Certainly, others like Fox or Amazon or other companies would have entered the fray.
00:57 ESPN gobbled up the rights.
00:59 Most say it's half full.
01:01 Some say it's half empty.
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