ACC revenue gap grows

The SEC announces $627.1 million in revenue for the 2017-18 fiscal year.

Each school will receive about $41.3 million. https://t.co/oGEyP8GwbG

— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) February 1, 2019

https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2019/02/sec-2018-financials.html

That said, USA Today says this is the year that the SEC gets passed by Big Ten in per school distribution.

The SEC had just under $660 million in revenue during its 2018 fiscal year, according to a federal tax return that the conference provided Friday. That resulted in an average of $43.7 million being distributed to the 13 member schools that received full shares. Mississippi did not get a full share because of its football team was banned from postseason play.

The Big Ten Conference likely distributed a little more than $50 million to each of its 12 schools that got full revenue shares in fiscal 2018, according to schools' recent financial disclosures.

The Big Ten, which began new television agreements during the 2018 fiscal year, generally does not file its federal tax return until the spring. So, its revenue total for fiscal 2018 has not yet been made public. However, through open-records requests, USA TODAY Sports has obtained fiscal 2018 financial reports to the NCAA for six of the 12 schools receiving full shares. A seventh school announced the amount of its share last June. Maryland and Rutgers, the conference's two most recent additions, still are moving toward full shares... Nebraska received a full share for the first time in fiscal 2018.

BOTTOM LINE: I expect 2018 to be the biggest financial gap year - over $20 million per school. Why 2018? Because the SEC and Big Ten both get their contract bowl money, but the ACC didn't, and the ACC Network hasn't launched yet either, so that money isn't coming in yet. It's a perfect storm, financially speaking. However, if all goes according to plan, the gap should close considerably in 2019 and even more in 2020... but only time will tell.