Pat McAfee, Kirk Herbstreit and the rest of ESPN's "College GameDay" crew are in Lubbock, Texas, ahead of the top-10 matchup between the No. 7 BYU Cougars and No. 8 Texas Tech Red Raiders.

"Unfortunately, we are headed into another sports-packed weekend without a deal in place," Disney executives wrote in a memo on Friday.

The release of the memo to ESPN employees is the latest twist in the protracted stand-off between the distributor and content company.

YouTube pulled more than 20 Disney-owned channels including ESPN and ABC right before Halloween after Google and Disney couldn't come to an agreement. At the time, YouTube TV claimed that it ""will not agree to terms that disadvantage our members while benefiting Disney’s own live TV products."

The release calls it ESPN’s "second-highest Week 9 audience since 2011." In most years since 2011, however, the game was not also televised by ABC. The impact of the YouTube TV

This is the third time in two months that YouTube TV has faced a contract dispute, but this one has had the largest consumer impact, by far.

He posted his solution on X, figuring younger people might not know “you can go old school without even buying an antenna.” Neely is one of many consumers seeking a quick fix to get them through the blackout of Disney channels on YouTube TV,

Rising costs of sports rights fees and other other factors have fueled YouTube's disputes with Disney and other media companies.