Nbc has been scaling down their sports coverage for the last couple of years. Read a sports journal this isn't news. NBC is not paying big money to have a prime time game full of B and C listers. The Big 10 is not entering into a relationship with NBC to broadcast an undercard in primetime. Look at the games that have been national Broadcasts on ABC and Fox in the 7:30pm time slot. The majority are either premier matchup's or they involve Blue Bloods. The majority of the games the Big 12 have landed in these time slots either involved Texas or Oklahoma. The networks chose Big Ten and Sec games over Big 12 games the majority of the Time in these primetime slots. Big 10 and Sec games get better ratings its why Texas and Oklahoma ended up with a bunch of Noon Time Slots. Its one of the reasons they cited for leaving. This isn't rocket science if you actually believe what you wrote then You're an idiot. If you don't you're a troll.
What games do you think NBC is going to be putting on exactly.
Lets take a particular week upcoming as an example.
Wisconsin at Ohio State. Noon game ABC now, will be the BIG FOX noon game Then. Pretty boring game for most of the college football world outside those two states.
Fox has the doozy Maryland at Michigan same day also at noon This season. But that will become the 3:30 CBS game once the new deals come in.
What will be left? What blockbuster will NBC have for that night game? UCLA v. Rutgers? or Minnesota or Northwestern?
once in awhile they might get an MSU v. USC but not every week cause maybe Ohio State is playing Illinois or Purdue and Fox or CBS takes the bigger matchup.
Games yes, big game? Maybe if you are a fan of that schools. Otherwise , meh.
when conferences sign tv deals they are guaranteed a certain number of games on specific networks and times. When the BIG 12 signed their deals everyone already had most prime and 3:30 windows filled up. Fox wasn’t outperforming ABC or CBS so they made the noon game their featured game and put each conferences bigger games there. Of course OU and Texas are going to get the most prime spots, just like Alabama did in the SEC, Ohio State in the B10, Clemson in the ACC.
And the BIG 12 will still have premiere games like every other conference with compelling matchups and still get some prime time spots as well— with the new B10 and SEC deals those will be harder to come by but won’t be gone.