i think the confusion comes from the way the article was
Posted on: April 11, 2019 at 14:47:01 CT
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written. read the very end of the article:
"The Big 12 and ESPN also announced that the football championship game will carried on ABC or ESPN through 2024."
essentially, espn paid the conference $40 million to broadcast the conference championship game through 2024, and also picked up everyone's 3rd tier rights as a throw-in.
everyone except OU and Texas, that is. They didn't have to throw in their tier 3 rights.