The CW reportedly interested in licensing College Football Playoff games from ESPN

Over the last few years, The CW has grown to include a solid portfolio of sports rights. The network has ACC, Pac-12, and Mountain West football, ACC basketball, NASCAR’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, WWE NXT, and a few other minor properties. Now, the network is becoming more ambitious. As other media companies prepare to “rebalance” their sports rights portfolios to afford NFL rights when they reopen at the end of the decade, networks like The CW, Ion, and Versant’s USA Sports division figure to become major players for the inventory that bigger networks leave behind.