Tuesday, October 20, 2026

What if a 24-team format would've existed since the CFP started in 2014

 

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CNBC’s 2025 valuations of ACC athletic programs

 



CNBC isn’t ranking football TV value. Its methodology values the whole athletic enterprise largely on revenue, regardless of source. Stanford’s huge annual athletics endowment revenue offsets weaker ticket/media revenue. Add the Stanford brand + 36 sports, and it makes sense.
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Dance Marathon at FSU support for Florida State University College of Medicine tops $11.5 million

 

Dance Marathon at FSU support for Florida State University College of Medicine tops $11.5 million 

DM@FSU raises funds for pediatric medical care. The 2026 DM@FSU, the 31st year for the event, raised a little over $1.5 million, and the group’s donation to the college this year was $697,380.85. That donation brought total support since the College of Medicine was added as a beneficiary in 2003 to more than $11.5 million.

Hundreds of students participate in DM@FSU, the largest student-run philanthropy on campus. It’s an entire year of fundraising and planning, culminating in a whirlwind three-day event with closing ceremonies held the first Sunday in March. Many of the college’s partners in pediatric outreach attend the check ceremony each fall, staffing tables to explain how they use DM@FSU funds to expand and enhance access to healthcare.

Emmanuella Essien, 2027 DM@FSU executive director, explained why the students put their hearts into the effort.

“The mission of Dance Marathon is greater than the dollars raised,” she said. “It’s about bringing people together around something that matters, while helping ensure kids have access to the care they need and families don’t have to face difficult moments alone.”

The organization is one of the five founding dance marathons in the Children’s Miracle Networkand it continues to be one of the most successful at raising money for children’s healthcare.

At an Oct. 5 celebration in the FSU College of Medicine atrium, Dean Dr. Alma B. Littles noted that DM@FSU has consistently finished in the top five among dance marathons supporting the network.

“Our dance marathon here at FSU actually raised more money this year than the Dance Marathon the same weekend at our sister university over in Gainesville, my alma mater,” Littles said. “But no matter which school brings in the most money, the beauty of friendly competition for a worthy cause means everybody wins — very different from that last weekend in November!”

This was the 12th year that DM@FSU topped the $1 million mark, with the proceeds divided between the College of Medicine’s pediatric outreach programs and UF Health’s Shands Children’s Hospital in Gainesville, the region’s Children’s Miracle Network hospital.

Dr. Rashmin Savani, chair of the University of Florida College of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics and Shands’ physician-in-chief, heads a delegation from UF Health each year to thank the dancers for their support.

“It’s all about making meaningful change for families and children that have diseases that end them up in hospitals, that put their future in doubt,” he said. “And it’s the things that you do that alter the outcome. Just think about that. I couldn’t be more grateful for all the things that you do. Thank you again.”

Since its creation in 1995 and first marathon in 1996, DM@FSU has raised almost $25 million.

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Engineering school enters new era with $152 million expansion

 

FAMU-FSU engineering school enters new era with $152 million expansion

  • Florida State and Florida A&M universities are expanding their joint engineering school with a new $156.9 million building.
  • The new facility, slated for completion in December 2028, will add state-of-the-art labs, classrooms, and study spaces.
  • Enrollment at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering has grown significantly, prompting the need for more space.


'The need for Building C really comes from our growth'

During the 2026-27 legislative session, the engineering school received $91.97 million for its Building C construction project, which was the final piece of state funding needed for the future facility after it already got about $40 million last year. In the 2023-24 session, the state gave the college $20 million in appropriations for the building, and in 2024-25 the college received $5 million. 

Over the past five years, enrollment at the engineering school has grown as the undergraduate headcount is up 42% and graduate enrollment increased by 44%, pushing the total number of students enrolled from FAMU and FSU to over 3,700. In fall 2025, the college had an enrollment of 2,566 students from FSU and 593 from FAMU, according to the college's spokesperson.

In addition, the college’s annual research expenditures have grown from $31.5 million in 2021 to $87.6 million last year. “Building C allows us to grow that work,” De said, “and we’d expect our research and graduate output to grow along with the added capacity.” 

The expansion comes as the engineering school aims to become one of the top 50 engineering colleges in the nation within the next few years. Currently, the school is ranked No. 89 in the U.S. News & World Report's “2026 Best Engineering Schools” rankings. 

“Of course, a building alone will not move us into the top 50,” he added. “That will depend on the continued accomplishments of our faculty and students, strategic faculty hiring, research growth and the quality of our academic programs. Building C will provide much of the physical infrastructure necessary to pursue these goals.” 




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Friday, October 16, 2026

John Swofford owns the failure of the ACC but nobody likes to hear it outside of Tallahassee

 


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2025 film directed by Florida State University film school turns a profit

 


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Thursday, October 15, 2026

2026 TV Ratings




 





The avg viewership on Friday night ESPN has been week 1-6 about 2-2.3M

Known ESPN Friday night (or primetime Friday) viewership examples, 2026 Weeks 1–6
  • Miami at Stanford (Week 1,
  • : ~2.0 million.
  • Miami at Wake Forest ): 2.3 million
  • Pitt at Virginia Tech (Week 5, Friday): ~2.4 million.
  • Florida State at Louisville (Week 6, Friday primetime): 2.7 million.
Week 4 ESPN Friday night viewership numbers (September 25, 2026):
  • Navy at UAB (7 p.m. ET on ESPN): 1.188 million (also reported as ~1.19 million).
  • Clemson at California (10:30 p.m. ET on ESPN): 1.29 million.
So right now, it looks like FSU’s Friday night game is the highest rated so far.
.. And miami has had 2 Friday solo games.









The FSU Bama game still drew 7 Million plus AFTER a long lightening delay (2 actually)




https://247sports.com/college/florida-state/board/36/contents/viewership-numbers-for-fsusmu-289751283/?page=1

https://www.on3.com/boards/threads/have-the-tv-numbers-for-monday-night-been-announced-yet.8979882/#post-189485201

*Remember that FSU was the only one of this bunch that was on ESPN cable/streaming only… and the game was on a return to work night and 1 hour 1/2 late. The game went to 1:00am-ish. All the others were on OTA networks.

Your final Week 1 TV ratings, per Nielsen: ND-Wis. (NBC): 8.1M LSU-Clemson (ABC): 5.8M Wash-Wash St (NBC): 5.1M Oregon-Boise St (CBS): 4.8M Lou-Ole Miss (ABC): 4.7M Baylor-Auburn (ABC): 4.2M Mich-WMU (NBC): 4.1M FSU-SMU (ESPN): 4.1M



FSU season-opening win sets CW viewership record

Florida State’s season-opening win over New Mexico State did more than put the Seminoles at 1-0, it also delivered a record audience for The CW.

The Week 0 matchup averaged 1.96 million viewers in primetime, making it the most-watched sports broadcast in The CW’s history, according to Nielsen Panel + Big Data figures released by Nexstar Media Group on Wednesday.

Viewership peaked at 2.4 million between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m. ET as Florida State pulled away for a 34-17 victory at Doak Campbell Stadium. The broadcast also drew 718,000 viewers in the Adults 25-54 demographic, another network record for a sports event.

The game’s performance extended beyond The CW’s own benchmarks. According to Nexstar, Florida State-New Mexico State was the second-strongest primetime broadcast of the night among Adults 25-54, outperforming every primetime program on ABC, CBS and NBC in that demographic.



https://247sports.com/college/florida-state/board/36/contents/game-1-drew-nearly-2m-on-the-cw-289433585/?page=1


Nielsen measured viewership for the B12 & ACC during the 2025 season

Week 12 & Week 13 College Football TV Ratings

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