The future of college football.....
http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/big-12-expansion-title-game-texas-longhorns-oklahoma-sooners-iowa-byu-clemson-signing-day-012016
"There may be five major conferences as determined on the football field, but in the larger industry of college athletics, we will soon have the Power Two and the Slightly-Less-Powerful Three. Simply put, the SEC and Big Ten are distancing themselves from everybody else. According to USA Today, the SEC earned a staggering $527.4 million in the 2015 fiscal year, its first with both SEC Network and College Football Playoff revenue. That's up 60 percent from just a year earlier. The Big Ten distributed $448 million last school year, and that number should rise considerably with its upcoming TV contract. The Big 12, by contrast, earned less than half that SEC number, though on par with the ACC and Pac-12."
Yep. In other words, same as it's ever been, pretty much.
ReplyDeleteNo, wait, once upon a time it was the Ivy League that dominated. So things do change in college football - just very, very slowly.
ACC will make less money, but still win national championships every so often - as always.
JMO though.
Mark,
ReplyDeleteIt is not the same as it has always been. The ACC used to have the largest conf payout (when FSU joined the ACC). Today it is 5th and the gap is growing like never seen before
Those that claim things are the same....simply either don't understand it is not, or refuse to see things for how they are today....or both.
But it is NOT the same as it's ever been. Not even close
From a purely TV payout viewpoint, you are correct.
ReplyDeleteFrom a POWER viewpoint, the ACC has never been on top.
That's all I meant.