Big Ten, Pac-10 Sign With CBS

The Big Ten and Pacific 10 conferences announced Friday they have reached a two-year, $18.5-million agreement with CBS-TV to televise their football games in 1985 and ’86.

A CBS spokesman said the network would pay $8.5 million in 1985 and $10 million in 1986 for the right to televise a minimum of 56 appearances of Big Ten and Pac-10 teams. A conference game constitutes two appearances.

CBS paid the Big Ten and Pac-10 $8 million in 1984.

At the same time, sources told the Associated Press that the Atlantic Coast Conference and the University of Miami, a major independent, soon will announce similar agreements with CBS.

Miami and the eight ACC schools belong to the 63-member College Football Assn., whose games were sold to ABC-TV last fall after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling that overturned the NCAA’s lucrative four-year contract with the two networks.