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Ok, missed your $20M. So there must be escalators in the ESPN contract where it started off low and increases as the years go on. $20M makes more sense now versus the $17M.

You are correct that the all-in number is just short of $40 million (tv revenue, bowls, championship games, NCAA basketball tournament). Of this, the tv portion was less than $30 million. The article below says $30 million. I am curious on the $30 million breakdown. $17M for ESPN I thought was the flat fee until 2036. It is difficult to find the conference revenue figures but from various internet searches before, the ACCN revenue was about $7 million a couple years ago. Comcast brought them in recently on the East Coast so the ACCN should increase but $6 million more ($17M + $7M + $6M) seems steep. ACC amends revenue distribution model, incentivizing postseason success for money-making sports - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Top ACC schools have been exploring pathways to compete with future SEC and Big Ten revenue

It was reported in May that the ACC is expecting next year tv revenue to be $30 million.

You may be right. Note the Big 10 deal will be ready to re-up in 2029, before the Big 12. Big 12 can't do anything until that is done. But neither can the Pac, unless they go at it in 2027 or 2028. But the networks will want to concentrate on the Big 10 deal when it gets close.

Not trolling. The Big 10 had 98% contract done way before the year. They had the tv partners and money all sorted out. The play at night is a minor detail.

"rush the process"? It's been a year.

https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1664390708189380609 On the flipside, West Virginia plays 11 P5 teams.

Rick Neuheisel on Sirius radio yesterday went off on the SEC 8 game schedule. Good for him. He said it correctly. The committee won't care who the SEC played non-conference. They'll see the record, and see how big and fast they are and that's it. SEC team: 10-2 Any non-SEC team: 10-2 I know there is more to it, but the CFP Committee, just looking at the above, puts the SEC team in. If committee looks harder, they will see 3 G5 teams on the SEC schedule (1-2 exceptions) to 2 for non-SEC team. Won't matter. The SEC team will be rewarded for "navigating in the brutal SEC". ESPN, notably Joey "Eye Test" Galloway and Herbie, will be pumping them up as usual.

From the outside view, 8 conference games for a 16 team league is just rigging the system to avoid 1 more loss on the resume. This will allow them to get 3 loss teams in the 12 team playoff discussion. The supporters say it is a tried and true system. It sure is, but other conferences don't have the financial power of the SEC or the number of teams to do the same. Big 12 had 10 teams for years. Pac is going to have 10 teams too. ACC goes 8 to sort of mimic the SEC but some teams play Notre Dame per contract with them. In addition, it is no coincidence the lower SEC schools are the primary ones favoring the 8 team schedule in order for them to be bowl eligible. "It just means more" bowl bids to the conference.

A merger or scheduling agreement with the ACC has some merit. The problem as always: tv. 3 time zone difference is problematic. The afternoon slots are all filled up with the other conferences. So noon EST is 9 a.m. PST. That can't pull in much ratings in the PST. What about 7 p.m. EST? That works a bit. Next is the 7 p.m PST slot. It is open. But that is 10 p.m. EST. It's getting a little late for viewers and recruits on the East Coast.

I liked Canzano with his reporting on the Pac 12 Network and the debacles of Larry Scott. A lot of research and insight was done by him. This past year, his bias has hurt his objectivity however. His accuracy has been off and his sources haven't panned out. His dominos comment 2 months ago was way off.

Not sure it is a good thing before the B1G. Networks will be holding their money for the big fish, B1G. It's similar to free agency where the the mid to lower level players have to wait until the top guys get their deal.