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BCS to go to ESPN in 2011


November 17, 2008 College football's Bowl Championship Series is poised to go to ESPN in two years and become the first major sports championship series on cable TV. Fox Sports is in the middle of a four-year deal for the BCS Championship Game as well as the Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Fiesta Bowl. "Even with today's vast economic uncertainties, Fox Sports made a very competitive bid to keep broadcasting BCS games free to every home in America, one that included a substantial rights fee increase and certainly as much as any over-the-air network could responsibly risk," Fox Sports said Monday.

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