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Texas Breaths Life Into The Big XII


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After all the drama over conferences collapsing as the BigXII dissolves, it’s just not going to happen. After scenarios were discuss where the BigXII’s demise would lead to the demise of the Big East and possibly the ACC, all we’re left with is Nebraska to the Big10 and Colorado to the Pac10.

How did this happen? It seems Texas held the keys and with commitments from the remaining BigXII schools, they pulled out a major television deal that will pay each school some serious cash!
[B]Millions of Reasons[/B]

[IMG]http://assets.espn.go.com/i/misc/Big12_65x90.gif[/IMG] Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma would reportedly each receive at least
$20 million annually from a new Big 12 TV contract, comparable with what the top conference deals pay now.

BCS conference Amount of contract
Big Ten $242 million
SEC $205 million
Big 12 $78 million
ACC $67 million
Pacific-10 $58 million
Big East $33 million

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