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An ESPN logo appears on a camera before an NCAA college football game. Here’s what you need to know to watch the Utes on TV and streaming the season. | Reinhold Matay
Utah fans will be able to watch their team on some familiar channels this season, but there are some broadcast changes coming with the Utes’ move from the Pac-12 to the Big 12.
The Big 12 Conference inked a nearly $2.3 billion media deal with ESPN and Fox that reportedly will pay out $31.7 million per year to each of its schools when it takes effect in 2025. The current media deal in place, which runs through the 2024-25 academic year, is also with ESPN and Fox, two longtime partners of the Pac-12.
The vast majority of Utah’s 2024 football games will be found on the ESPN and Fox family of networks — ABC, ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPNU, Fox and FS1 — with games against Baylor (Sept. 7) and UCF (Nov. 29) being aired on Fox. When Utah travels to Tempe to face Arizona State on Oct. 11, that game will be available on ESPN.
The season opener against Southern Utah on Aug. 29 is available on streaming only — more on that in a minute — on ESPN+.
The only game that’s not on the ESPN or Fox family of networks will be on Sept. 14, when the Utes make the trip to Logan to play Utah State. Because the Aggies are the home team, and the Mountain West has a broadcasting agreement with CBS, that game will be aired on CBS Sports Network.
TV details for Utah’s remaining games have not been announced, but will be on the ESPN and Fox family of networks.
The Big 12 doesn’t have a traditional cable network like the Pac-12 Network, which aired select football games and a lot of other sports such as men’s and women’s basketball and gymnastics, instead streaming those events on ESPN+, which is ESPN’s streaming service.
For example, during Utah men’s basketball’s last…
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Publish date : 2024-08-08 03:41:21
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