The 2024 season will be a new era for the entire college football world, including the Big Ten. With four new members joining the conference this year and the new media rights deal really starting to take off, buzz is already building for the upcoming football season in the expanded Big Ten. And CBS has secured some games it plans to broadcast this season.
In a press release shared by CBS, the first games to be highlighted in the network’s full dive into Big Ten football were confirmed. No Penn State games have been acquired by CBS yet, although one will certainly come at some point. But the big takeaway is that CBS will be the network that airs this year’s Big Ten championship game, after years of appearing on FOX.
This will mark the first season that the Big Ten championship game will not air on Fox. Fox has been the exclusive broadcast standard for the Big Ten conference championship game since it was first introduced in 2011. This will be the first season with CBS airing the Big Ten game of the week, a spot the network previously reserved for the SEC before the SEC split to team up more closely with ESPN this season.
The Big Ten Championship is scheduled for Saturday, December 7th at 8pm ET at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN.
CBS will also broadcast the Purdue home game with Notre Dame on September 14th and Michigan home game against USC on Sept. 21 at the start of the Big Ten schedule. The games will air on CBS’ family time slot at 3:30 pm ET. The games will also be available on Paramount+ as a streaming option.
CBS will announce additional matchups at a later date.
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