The 2023 FCS college football season will be the last without Missouri Valley Football Conference games featured on linear television.

The league announced a couple weeks ago a new television contract with ESPN, a six-year deal that will see the network broadcast one to two games a year on either ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU.

It’s a landmark deal for the conference, which has never had regular season games on linear TV. 

The new deal calls for the extension of the Missouri Valley Game of the Week on ESPN Plus, a deal that has been around for the last eight years, where one game is selected for an exclusive broadcast.

Missouri Valley Conference Commissioner Patty Viverito and ESPN’s senior director of programming Dan Margulis join the podcast to discuss the two sides of how this deal came together and what it means for local broadcasters like WDAY-TV.

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