AAC wants to try to poach at least some remaining Big 12 teams, cites TV deal: “We’ve already got ESPN at the table.”

At first glance, the idea of the AAC adding Big 12 teams makes no sense from a financial standpoint, unless those teams are completely out of options or unless ESPN decides those additions somehow make the AAC worth a whole lot more. But ESPN could possibly decide that as part of an overall campaign to claim more college football rights from Fox.

Pensacola ABC affiliate broke into end of AAC championship for further comments from Rep. Matt Gaetz on Friday shootings

Gaetz commented on the shootings on WEAR Friday, then offered further comments on the station Saturday. They broke into the AAC championship to show those comments.

ESPN signs 12-year, $1 billion deal with AAC with no grant of rights, quadruples payouts, moves lots of games to ESPN+

Per-school payouts from this deal are expected to rise to $6.94 million per year, almost $5 million more than the level they were at.