American Athletic Conference rights go to CBS Sports Network
By Josh Sanchez
With the newly formed American Athletic Conference looking for a new home, ESPN was one of the teams bidding for the rights to air their games on their family of networks. Unfortunately for the Disney owned network, CBS Sports got digs on AAC coverage and will begin airing the games this college football season.
It couldn’t be a better time to launch the AAC and CBS Sports partnership than to have a team that includes star quarterback Teddy Bridgewater.
Who are the teams in the American Athletic Conference?
- Cincinnati Bearcats
- Connecticut Huskies
- Houston Cougars
- Louisville Cardinals
- Memphis Tigers
- Rutgers Scarlet Knights
- SMU Mustangs
- South Florida Bulls
- Temple Owls
- UCF Knights
On top of some excellent football teams, CBS Sports will be able to provide fans with incredible basketball coverage.
You can see more from the CBS Sports press release below, via Awful Announcing:
"CBS Sports Network has acquired the rights to telecast college football and basketball games from the American Athletic Conference through a sub-licensing agreement with ESPN. The multi-year agreement begins with the 2013-14 college basketball season and continues through 2019-20.The deal provides for 30 men’s basketball games per year, except for the first year, which calls for 25 games. CBS Sports Network also will telecast a minimum of 13, and maximum of 15 football games beginning with the 2014 season.“We are pleased and excited about this ESPN-CBS agreement, which provides our member institutions unprecedented national exposure on the industry leaders in college sports,” said American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco. “CBS Sports Network is another outstanding national platform for our schools, and we thank ESPN for its role in making this agreement possible. We look forward to giving our fans the best seat in the house as we compete on the biggest stage in college sports in this, our inaugural season as the American, and for many years to come.”“This deal adds high quality college football and basketball games to CBS Sports Network’s already extensive line-up of live event programming,” said David Berson, President, CBS Sports. “We’re proud to extend our relationship with the American Athletic Conference and look forward to showcasing exciting action on CBS Sports and CBS Sports Network beginning this season.”"