Saturday, May 22, 2010

Comparison of TV dollars between conferences

From publicly available reports, this is what I came up with for how much each school gets from their conference TV deals

Big 10: $22 million per year
SEC: $17.1 million per year
ACC: $12.9 million per year
Big 12: Varies between $7 million and $12 million per year
MWC: $1.3 million per year
C-USA: $1 million per year
WAC: $325k per year (UH is getting $75k more this year for the "inconvenience" of playing a game on a Thursday on ESPN)

Notre Dame reported gets $9 million per year after their latest extension with NBC.

The difference between the BCS bowl money from the AQ conferences and what UH gets is *less* than $1 million per year. When UH made the Sugar Bowl, they made millions more in BCS money than what Georgia got.

Due to how the WAC now distributes BCS money (taking away $3 million to split up among the conference teams), if BSU or another WAC team makes a BCS bowl this year, UH could actually get about the *same* amount of BCS money that Texas and Florida gets.

So, BCS bowl money is NOT the difference between UH and the rest of the big-budget teams. Regular-season TV money is.

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