2012 Football Revenues Per FBS Conference & Per Schools

[PlummMeanGreen]

http://collegesports...-by-conference/

I think these figure for CUSA do not reflect its lost members plus new members but it is a good reference list to go by to

see the gap between what used to be non AQ's versus AQ's

I think CUSA's and the MWC's will be much higher once they re-negotiate.

NOTE: The Big Easts projected revenues will surprise you; but they also will be re-negotiating as I recall.

GMG!

Edited May 17, 2012 by PlummMeanGreen

[Mark Gommesen]

ACC

15 years, $3.6 billion, ESPN (through 2027)

Annual: $240 million

Average Annual per School: $17.1 million

Notes: ACC also expected to take it’s own share, bringing the average per school annual payout to $16 million per year

Big East

6 years, $200 million, ABC/ESPN [CBS contributes $9 million of total] (through 2013)

Annual: $40 million

Average Annual per School: $3.18 million for football schools, $1.56 million for non-football schools

Notes: Big East is next conference up for renewal. Total is expected to be far below the $1.4 billion they turned down.

Big Ten

10 years, $1 billion, ABC/ESPN (through 2016)

25 years, +$2.8 billion, Big Ten Network (through 2032)

6 years, $145 million, Fox (B1G championship game through 2016)

Annual: $236 million

Average Annual per School: $19.7-$22 million

Big 12

13 years, $1.2 billion, Fox (through 2025)

13 years, $1.4 billion, ABC/ESPN (through 2025)

Annual: $200 million

Average Annual per School: $20 million

Notes: Schools control Tier 3 rights, so each school can gain even more annual revenue on it’s own. Also worth noting, that the 10 schools are expected to extend their rights waiver for the additional years, 13 in total. So no members would be leaving the Big 12 knowing that they would risk losing so much revenue. Expansion is on the table for the Big 12, especially given the large revenue bump. So if the right 2 schools were available, the Big 12 would expand and renegotiate it’s television fees beforehand. Florida St., Notre Dame and Clemson remain at the top of the wish list while Louisville remains the more likely initial candidate.

Pac-12

12 years, $2.7 billion, Fox/ABC/ESPN (through 2024)

Annual: $225 million (* $505 million potential)

Average Annual per School: $20.2 million ($18.8 million from Fox/ABC/ESPN with $30-$50 million projected with Pac-12 Network)

* Pac-12 Network: the network will launch in 2012 with a primary network and 6 regional networks. Revenue projections combined are expected to be in the same range if not more than the Big Ten Network, which produces $280 million per year at $11 million per school.

Notes: New members Utah and Colorado receive 50% share in 2012, 75% share in 2012, 100% share in 2014

SEC

15 years, $2.25 billion, ESPN (through 2024)

15 years, $825 million, CBS (through 2024)

Annual: $205 million

Average Annual per School: $17.1 million

Notes: contract is expected to be renegotiated in time with the additions of Texas A&M and Missouri, likely before the 2024 expiration. The SEC may be on it’s way to starting it’s own network that depending on future additions, could gain the conference and additional $10-$20 million per school per year). While the SEC currently ranks below 4 other conferences in revenue, that is expected to change sooner than later.

OTHERS:

CUSA

5 years, $35 million, CBS College Sports (through 2016)

5 years, $35 million, Fox (through 2016)

Annual: $14 million

Average Annual per School: $1.17 million

Notes: CUSA and the MWC are expected to form a football alliance in order to negotiate a single TV contract for that sport.

Mountain West

10 years, $120 million, CBS College Sports (through 2016)

Annual: $12 million

Average Annual per School: $1.33 million

Notes: losses and additions now have the MWC at 10 members with Hawaii as a football only member, will lower per school payout. The MWC ended their own channel, Mtn this year. CUSA and the MWC are expected to form a football alliance in order to negotiate a single TV contract for that sport.

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Another unknown is how much the Big East's new media rights deal, which the league starts renegotiating on Sept. 1, will be worth.

Last year the Big East turned down a nine-year, $1.4 billion deal ($155 million per year), which would have been worth about $14.3 million a year to the full members and about $3.2 million to the non-football members.

If the Big East's new deal is worth the same amount per year ($155 million) each school would receive a smaller amount than the deal the league turned down last year because there are now more members. Full members would receive about $11.4 million per year, football-only members Boise State and San Diego State would receive about $8.4 million annually and non-football members about $3 million a year.

Former CBS Sports president Neil Pilson recently told the New York Times he thought the Big East's deal would exceed the $155 million per year deal the league turned down last year. However, industry sources told CBSSports.com that they believe the Big East's new media rights will be worth substantially less than $155 million per year. That's because when the Big East starts negotiating, about $8 billion will have been spent on recent college football deals, so there won't be as much money available..

With the elimination of AQ in the BCS and the fact that the C-USA has expanded into large fast growing media markets, the C-USA could in a few years close the gap with the big east. The Big East is not scheduled to renegotiate it's television contract until September. C-USA needs to immediately negotiate new TV contracts and beat the Big East to the table.

C-USA has added a combination of established and emerging programs. Four of the five schools bring a market size ranked among the top 36 in the country and totaling over two million more TV households than the league held this past year. Now that ODU as committed that wll bring an additional 718,750 households, totaling close

to three million additional TV households. Five of the six schools are in the fastest growing media markets. Four of

the six schools are media markets without direct competition from other major Universities or Pro teams.

After realignment the C-USA increase the number of large media markets in markets and dramatically increase the

number of television households. The C-USA has position itself for better long-term growth than any other

conference. None of the other conferences have any room for growth, they have already saturated their markets.

C-USA was clever enough to expand within it's hold geographical foot print, yet add new large media markets

like San Antonio, Charlotte, Miami, and Norfolk and secure itself in the DFW market.

The C-USA is located in the fastest geographical region of the country. According to the US Census Bureau, from

2000 to 2010, regional growth was much faster for the South and West (14.3 and 13.8 percent, respectively) than

for the Midwest (3.9 percent) and Northeast (3.2 percent).

While expanding, the C-USA avoided media markets dominated by the SEC or the ACC. After realignment, the C-USA

loss Memphis and Orlando to the Big East. Although major media markets, the both of these markets were highly

competitive. The Tennessee market is relatively small and is being dominated by the University of Tennessee and

Vanderbilt both of the SEC. Similarly the Florida market is dominated by the ACC and the SEC.

The C-USA can offered television networks a conference that includes large rapidly growing media markets with a

huge number of television households, in the fastest growing region in the country without offering little or no direct competition to the network's existing contracts with any of other large conferences including the SEC, the ACC, The B1G,or the BIG 12.

.THE C-USA NEEDS TO ACT NOW[/td]

Edited May 18, 2012 by Mark Gommesen