ABC Offering $35 Million Less for Football Pact Minus Notre Dame

ABC has offered the College Football Assn. $35 million less for its five-year television package if Notre Dame is not included.

“The CFA is renegotiating with ABC and ESPN,” Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles said Wednesday. “We’ll see what the money is without Notre Dame.”

The CFA and ABC have a five-year, $210-million deal, and ESPN has a five-year, $110-million contract with the CFA that begins in 1991. On Monday, however, Notre Dame announced it was pulling out of the CFA’s TV deal for a five-year, $30-million NBC contract to televise six home games a year starting in 1991.

And that definitely “reduces the value of the CFA package,” Broyles said.