Gophers_4life
Banned
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2018
- Messages
- 15,846
- Reaction score
- 3,986
- Points
- 113
Great post, appreciate this kind of info greatly! Makes GH worth coming to.As some background here.
The Gopher-Badger football game has been on over-the-air network TV three times in the past six years (2x on ABC, 1x on FOX). It has been on ESPN twice and BTN once. The one BTN game in the past 6 years was 2020 when the game was canceled once due to COVID and re-scheduled for December 19th.
In all, since BTN started up in 2007:
ESPN channels: 7x
BTN: 6x
ABC: 2x
FOX: 1x
Recent trend is definitely the game is higher up the food chain. Of course, that's when the Gophers started making it a more competitive series. From 2007-2016, the game was on ESPN 5x and BTN 5x. From 2017-22, the game was on ABC 2x, ESPN 2x, FOX 1x, and BTN 1x.
So clearly the big thing, no brainer, is how well the Gophers and Badgers actually do this season.
If the game matters for something more than just pride and a trophy, then it has a strong chance to get selected above BTN.
But if they're coming into the game with a combined 8 wins, I could easily see it falling to BTN.