SEC Will No Longer Appear On CBS After '23 Contract Expires

CBS will walk away from the SEC when its contract ends after the '23 football season, and all indications are that the package will move to ESPN/ABC. CBS decided to exit the negotiations for college football's most-watched TV package after making an aggressive bid in the neighborhood of $300M per season -- a massive increase from the $55M it currently pays annually. CBS Sports execs decided that it made more sense to invest the money they would have paid the SEC into other sports. Multiple sources said that ESPN/ABC is in the final stages of negotiating a deal that is expected to pay more than six times the $55M per year fee that CBS currently pays. Fox Sports execs still are planning to make an official bid presentation at SEC HQ in Birmingham next month. But sources said that ESPN’s negotiations are in the final stages. ESPN and Fox Sports would not comment.

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