Financial Health Scorecard

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The ACC
The first thing that stands out within the scoring is that the ACC only has a team in the Top Ten of the Power Five scoring if Notre Dame is considered a conference team instead of an independent.  This also has an effect on the second detail in the chart, the ACC only has three teams, including Notre Dame, above the Power Five Average.  The SEC, Big 12 and Big Ten all have 65-70% of their teams above the average, while the ACC only has 20%, 15% if you remove Notre Dame.
This also highlights why the Big Ten was able to expand with two smaller schools, they had the financial power with other universities to balance it out.   The ACC is designed nearly the opposite of the Big Ten, Big 12 and the SEC.  While those three conferences have many large state universities, the ACC is filled with either smaller public universities or private schools.  Like the Big Ten, the ACC has three members fall into the Bottom Ten in scoring within the Power Five. However, unlike the Big Ten, the top half of the ACC is similar in scoring to the bottom half of the Big 12.  TCU, the lowest scoring team in the Big 12, had a higher score than the ACC’s conference average when you include Notre Dame.
All in all though, what may be most surprising is that the bulk of the ACC’s members resemble each other.  The lowest scoring team is 48% of the highest, which, while not as strong as the SEC or Big 12, is more consistent than the Big Ten.