Sports watch media ranked the conference

Ubben - Big12 - 8 members $23M per - 2 at $14M per

Clay Travis ‏@ClayTravisBGID   3h    

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I've written this before, but I'd expect schools to bring in $15-20 million more a year starting next year with @secnetwork.

theGrove68
6/1/2014

"As of now in Football the B12 is coming up short in football ratings..using data from ESPN-Family,ABC,CBS,FOX,NBC,and Fox sports and dropping out games that would lower the avg. From BTN/LHN etc. Sports watch media ranked the conference as thus...

SEC- 3,805,794   2.34
B10-2,920,815   1.84
ACC- 1,961,674  1.25
P12-1,759,673  1.11
B12- 1,625,221   1.01"


hurtlocker
6/1/2014

"For just ESPN games the conferences broke down as follows:

B1G = 2.11
SEC = 2.08
ACC = 1.73
B12 = 1.60
Pac = 1.56"

WordupBU

"Looking at the games compared to their tv windows and network they played on you can "grade" them.  Basically a % of what is expected based on network and time slot.

Using ALL games available over the past year for each of the P5 leagues and every game I have come across over the past few years for the window averages (ABC regional is roughly estimated using % of country that gets it on ABC and on a mirror network compared against ratings for both ABC and it's mirror station) we end up with the following:

LEAGUE-AVG RATING-AVG VIEWERS-% OF EXPECTED WINDOW-# of Games-Games per member

ACC - 1.37 - 1,924,815 - 95.89% - 55 - 3.93
Big12- 1.11 - 1,580,694 - 101.36% - 55 -5.50
B1G- 2.02 - 2,766,214 - 96.49% - 45 - 3.75
PAC- 1.24 - 1,809,867 - 99.85% - 50 - 4.17
SEC- 2.16 - 3,495,366 - 112.09% - 69 - 4.93

Ratings wise the B1G does well and the B12/P12 don't despite the B1G struggling in it's time slots and the Big 12 and Pac 12 performing better in theirs.  This is partially due to the new network FS1 and how recently FOX started carrying major college football on Big FOX.   Aside from that most of the leagues draw a similar % of what is expected of them given network and time slot.

The SEC is out in front of the rest considerably.

However we see that EVERYONE has a different amount of games going into this thing and when you break it out per team it's not very fair for only the best 1/3 of the B1G's games to go into the debate while the Big 12 has almost half of a typical team's season schedule factoring into the math.

So dropping everyone close to that 3.75 games per team average of the Big Ten to make it more apples to apples on average ratings and average viewers.

ACC- 1.41 - 1,991,751 - 96.96% - 53 - 3.75
Big 12- 1.51 - 2,134,005 - 114.49% - 38 - 3.8
B1G- 2.02 - 2,766,214 - 96.49% - 45 - 3.75
PAC- 1.36 - 1,974,719 - 103.42% - 45 -3.75
SEC- 2.67 - 4,298,646 - 112.18% - 53 -3.75

The Big 12 performs pretty well.  In ratings and viewers it trails the B1G but relative to it's networks and time slots does really well compared to averages."