You say that they give you all the BTN channels, but do they ever play anything on the other 2? I have Direct tv with all the BTN channels and only 1 channel plays games, the other two are white noise. Am I missing something?
The other BTN channels normally ARE inactive. They only activate when there are multiple games, as overflow channels. Otherwise they are dead channels. If you have experienced NOT getting games when you know there are games on those channels, please let me know. It is something I need to look into.
For instance:
BTN might look like this on a weekend early in the season when no big games are on*:
BTN: OSU/Western Michigan
BTN2: Nebraska/South Dakota State
BTN3: Illinois/Rutgers
*Example purposes only. I have no idea what the actual schedules are.
Usually BTN tries to schedule with as little overflow as possible, so those channels aren't usually showing anything.