For the past decade, the Broncos have received $1.8 million more in TV payouts than their fellow conference members despite declining results in football
Buried in pages upon pages of bylaws and convoluted legalese is a 2016 codicil entitled: “Amendment to Boise State Membership in Mountain West Conference Term Sheet.”It affords Boise State $1.8 million annually from the Mountain West’s media rights contract in addition to what everyone else gets, and it has no expiration date.
But Boise State, which comes to Snapdragon Stadium to face SDSU on Friday night, has received $12.6 million more from the conference over that time and will get another $1.8 next summer no matter how it finishes after a 1-2 start. Since the beginning of the “carve-out,” to use media rights parlance, the Broncos have received roughly $18 million more that everyone else in the Mountain West.
At the time, Boise State had gone 84-8 over the previous seven seasons, including a four-year stretch where they were 50-3 and ranked as high as No. 4 in the AP poll. Then came the Mountain West’s current TV contract in 2020, with Fox replacing ESPN in the partnership with CBS through 2025-26. Thompson let it slip that the presidents voted to make this the final contact with Boise State’s carve-out.“I made that comment, and we got our heads kicked in,” Thompson said. “We got all these threatening legal letters and challenges.”
, “but to also gain an additional, proportionate share of the increased revenue from the new television deal with Fox.”e ending the $1.8 million carve-out in 2026, although the amount isn’t proportionately as daunting with the general conference distribution increasing from $1.1 million to about $4 million.
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