Former Rights
ESPN Plus once had rights to Conference USA football and basketball, Mountain West Conference football and basketball, and Big Ten Conference football and basketball, but has since lost them as detailed below:
- Conference USA - Broadcast rights to C-USA football, outside of the CUSA championship, are owned by CBS Sports Network and Fox Sports. Basketball rights are owned by those two and CBS.
- Mid-American Conference basketball moved to SportsTime Ohio in 2010.
- Mountain West Conference - Broadcast rights to MWC football and basketball games are now owned by CBS Sports Network, NBC Sports Network, and were formerly shown on the (now defunct) MTN.
- Big Ten Conference - Broadcast rights to Big Ten Conference football and basketball games not selected to air regionally or nationally on CBS, ESPN or ESPN2 are owned by BTN. ESPN Plus lost the rights to the new network in August 2007.
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