Instead of cluttering up the weekly picks for 2025, I'm going to keep track of selection specific information in this post like six day holds that have been used, the number of times I think a network has chosen first and the required appearances that a school needs to fill on conference networks like Big Ten Network.
Six Day Holds Used
ACC (4 remaining):
American (4 remaining):
Big Ten (4 remaining):
Big 12 (4 remaining):
SEC:
Please note that this is my guess about who chose first in a given Saturday. This is not a confirmation from either the networks or conferences of who chose first.
Big Ten
Assumed top Saturday choice each week. Weeks 1-5 and 14 were known in advance of the early season selection release.
| 08/30 | FOX: Texas at Ohio State |
| 09/06 | CBS: OK State at Oregon |
| 09/13 | FOX: Oregon at NW |
| 09/20 | CBS: Michigan at Nebraska |
| 09/27 | NBC: Oregon at Penn State |
| 10/04 |
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| 10/11 |
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| 10/18 | |
| 10/25 | |
| 11/01 | |
| 11/08 | |
| 11/15 | |
| 11/22 | |
| 11/29 | FOX: Ohio State at Michigan |
Each school is supposed to appear on BTN twice each season with at least one appearance against another Big Ten school
| School | Remaining |
| Illinois | Two games with one vs. B1G |
| Indiana | One vs. B1G |
| Iowa | One vs. B1G |
| Maryland | One vs. B1G |
| Michigan | One vs. B1G |
| Michigan State | One vs. B1G |
| Minnesota | One vs. B1G |
| Nebraska | One vs. B1G |
| Northwestern | One vs. B1G |
| Ohio State | One vs. B1G |
| Oregon | One vs. B1G |
| Penn State | One vs. B1G |
| Purdue | One vs. B1G |
| Rutgers | One vs. B1G |
| UCLA | Two games with one vs. B1G |
| USC | One vs. B1G |
| Washington | One vs. B1G |
| Wisconsin | One vs. B1G |
124 regular season games are available to the Big Ten's rightsholders. It appears that NBC, CBS and Peacock will take at least 39 of those games. FOX, FS1 and BTN would take on 85 of them.
Here's the known remaining selections from each rightsholder:
| FOX/FS1 | NBC | CBS | Peacock | BTN |
| 19 of ?? | 4 of 15 | 5 of 15 | 4 of 9 | 20 of ?? |
Big 12
Assumed top Saturday choice each week.
| 08/30 | FOX: USD at ISU |
| 09/06 | FOX: Iowa at ISU |
| 09/13 | ESPN: Pitt at WVU |
| 09/20 | |
| 09/27 | ESPN: BYU at CU |
| 10/04 | |
| 10/11 | |
| 10/18 | |
| 10/25 | |
| 11/01 | |
| 11/08 | |
| 11/15 | |
| 11/22 | |
| 11/29 |
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Starting with this season, ESPN has the top four choices across the season. After that, FOX Sports and ESPN share selections. FOX is capped somewhere around 26-35 games per season. When FOX Sports and ESPN initially signed the Big 12 agreements going into effect, FOX Sports was to carry at most 26 football games. After that agreement was set, four Pac-12 schools were added to the conference.
American
The American has a minimum of 40 games per season on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, excluding the conference championship game. At least 20 of the 40 are expected to be on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2. So far, at least 16 games have been guaranteed to air on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2.
| ABC | 0 |
| ESPN | 6 |
| ESPN2 | 6 |
| ESPNU | 3 |
| ESPNEWS/Other | 0 |
| TBD | 4 |
| Total | 19 |
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