Big 12 grabbed an independent and three of the most accomplished Group of Five schools: BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF. Their total number of what are now called New Year's Six bowls (Orange, Rose, Fiesta, Cotton, Sugar, Peach): 11.
Texas and Oklahoma's combined total: 73.
You can see the climb the Big 12 is facing to keep its relevance.
Cincinnati and Houston bring the smallest stadiums to the Big 12. Both seat approximately 40,000.
First, the Big 12 will grow back to 12. Then it will begin to find its revenue worth. Industry sources have put the new per-team revenue at $20 million-$25 million per year. While that would be a huge boost for the AAC teams emigrating to the Big 12 -- those schools make only $7 million per year -- the existing Big 12 schools would have reduce their bottom lines by about a third, coming down from $37 million in annual media rights payouts.
Will an Iowa State be able to hold on to Matt Campbell? What would happen to expansive facilities upgrades? Will debt service obligations be met?
The SEC is doing the exact opposite in seeking how to create more and better conference games. SEC can do it because it has the best inventory of games perhaps than any conference in history. Consider that there can now be regular games featuring Texas or Oklahoma against Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Florida and Texas A&M. That's without even mentioning the legacy SEC rivalries like Alabama-Auburn, Florida-Georgia.
What's the best rivalry in the new Big 12? Twelve teams in five states from the Atlantic to the Wasatch Mountains?
That is one expansion question that is yet to be answered.
All this from Bucky's favorite news man...
Dennis Dodd.
That ah boy Bucky.
Texas and Oklahoma's combined total: 73.
You can see the climb the Big 12 is facing to keep its relevance.
Cincinnati and Houston bring the smallest stadiums to the Big 12. Both seat approximately 40,000.
First, the Big 12 will grow back to 12. Then it will begin to find its revenue worth. Industry sources have put the new per-team revenue at $20 million-$25 million per year. While that would be a huge boost for the AAC teams emigrating to the Big 12 -- those schools make only $7 million per year -- the existing Big 12 schools would have reduce their bottom lines by about a third, coming down from $37 million in annual media rights payouts.
Will an Iowa State be able to hold on to Matt Campbell? What would happen to expansive facilities upgrades? Will debt service obligations be met?
The SEC is doing the exact opposite in seeking how to create more and better conference games. SEC can do it because it has the best inventory of games perhaps than any conference in history. Consider that there can now be regular games featuring Texas or Oklahoma against Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Florida and Texas A&M. That's without even mentioning the legacy SEC rivalries like Alabama-Auburn, Florida-Georgia.
What's the best rivalry in the new Big 12? Twelve teams in five states from the Atlantic to the Wasatch Mountains?
That is one expansion question that is yet to be answered.
All this from Bucky's favorite news man...
Dennis Dodd.
That ah boy Bucky.