Report: FOX to buy back Big Ten championship game from NBC for $45-55 million

FOX is reportedly nearing a deal to reacquire the 2026 Big Ten football championship game from NBC for between $45-55 million, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Joe Flint . NBC had subleased the game from FOX, which is now effectively buying it back. NBC had reportedly been seeking to offload the game for several months, and was seeking upwards of $70 million from various streaming services, including Amazon’s Prime Video and Netflix, to acquire the game, according to Awful Announcing.