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The Big 12 Conference announced Monday that the Sept. 28 game between Oklahoma State and Kansas State would be on the digital platform ESPN+. An interesting decision, since the Cowboys and Wildcats are both 3-0 and seemingly worthy of a more traditional broadcast outlet, but not necessarily surprising.

It isn’t like the Big 12 tried to hide the ESPN+ component of the league’s revised deal with ESPN last April. The digital outlet would carry as many as 75 men’s basketball games as well as all sorts of women’s basketball games and other non-revenue sports.

It would also carry, straight from the Big 12’s release announcing the agreement, “an exclusive regular-season football game each season from each participating school.”

I summarized details of the agreement in a blog last April, and referred to it again Monday on Twitter after the OSU-KState news broke. An alert Twitter user named Kevin read the blog and tweeted: “Even your article says ‘one football game per season.’ This is the second time in four games K-State has been on ESPN+.

True enough. Further, this marks OSU’s second appearance on the digital platform.

Did I misread the original agreement last April? Was there not a limit to the number of ESPN+ appearances per school per football season?