BYU Football Going Independent, Contracts with ESPN, Notre Dame

Brigham Young University, which will begin competing as a football independent in the 2011 season, today announced a new 8-year deal with ESPN to televise Cougar football on the sports leader’s family of networks.

PROVO, Utah (Sept. 1, 2010) – Brigham Young University, which will begin competing as a football independent in the 2011 season, today announced a new 8-year deal with ESPN to televise Cougar football on the sports leader’s family of networks.

ESPN has agreed that any BYU games it doesn’t select may be televised live on BYUtv.

Beginning next fall, every BYU home football game will be televised to a live national audience on the ESPN family of networks or BYUtv. Additionally, BYU’s national fan base will be able to view same-day rebroadcasts on BYUtv of every home game and any away game to which ESPN has rights through conference agreements with the host team.

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