The easy answer is more spots mean more opportunities for WVU.
It looked like things were a go about a month ago, for fast tracking playoff expansion. Now with the realignment stuff, the P12 and B10 sound like they are more interested in pausing expanding the playoffs to spite the SEC. I get that, but to me that is more of a case of cutting your nose off to spite your face.
I think halting expansion hurts the “other guys” more than it hurts the SEC. Without even considering playoff expansion, the reports of the SEC’s new tv deal could mean $90 million per team after adding in OU/Texas.
Stopping playoff expansion might be a way to stick it to the SEC, but it won’t financ
Expansion would mean more money dumped into the playoffs, and if WVU doesn’t have a safe landing spot and we get stuck in a reconstituted B12, the playoffs expanding might be our only life preserver.
The playoffs currently pay about $600 million per year, and projections prior to OU/Texas/SEC happening we’re that it could produce $1.9 billion.
I think if the B12 has any say in expanding the playoffs, they need to push hard for it. The playoffs expanding could be the difference in WVU paying its bills each year or not.
P5 Conferences get about $67 million per year right now from the playoffs, or roughly 11% of $600 million, not including the additional money paid for teams participating in the playoffs. If the playoffs expand and the pot does grow to $1.9 billion, the per conference payout goes to $209 million per P5 conference.
You have to take into account whether there will be a P5 payout or only a P4 payout. If it is contracted with the autonomous conferences, then the B12 is in good shape as one of those 5.
If the 8 remaining B12 schools stay together for whatever reason, and the B12 gets the same percent share of an expanded playoff, that’s $26 million per team, just base playoff pay.
The more teams the B12 adds, the smaller that per team chunk becomes. It would be in the B12’s interest to not jump too hastily into adding teams to the conference if the subsequent tv deal is not very financially rewarding. At most adding BYU and sitting at 9 might be the way to go.
The last caveat is how they determine the 12 teams. Initially the plan floated said the top 6 conference champs, but then Sankey- trying to play coy - said he didn’t know if conference champions should be a factor in determining who gets invited because he is counting on trying to get 12 SEC teams in each year.
The playoffs need to expand for WVU to have any type of financial security and they need for the playoffs to include the top 6 conference champs for WVU to have any shot at ever making the playoffs if stuck in a reconstructed B12.
It looked like things were a go about a month ago, for fast tracking playoff expansion. Now with the realignment stuff, the P12 and B10 sound like they are more interested in pausing expanding the playoffs to spite the SEC. I get that, but to me that is more of a case of cutting your nose off to spite your face.
I think halting expansion hurts the “other guys” more than it hurts the SEC. Without even considering playoff expansion, the reports of the SEC’s new tv deal could mean $90 million per team after adding in OU/Texas.
Stopping playoff expansion might be a way to stick it to the SEC, but it won’t financ
Expansion would mean more money dumped into the playoffs, and if WVU doesn’t have a safe landing spot and we get stuck in a reconstituted B12, the playoffs expanding might be our only life preserver.
The playoffs currently pay about $600 million per year, and projections prior to OU/Texas/SEC happening we’re that it could produce $1.9 billion.
Possible CFP expansion could increase revenue to more than $2 billion
It's unknown how revenue from an expanded CFP would be divided, so it's hard to estimate how much more money conferences - and schools - would get.
www.usatoday.com
I think if the B12 has any say in expanding the playoffs, they need to push hard for it. The playoffs expanding could be the difference in WVU paying its bills each year or not.
P5 Conferences get about $67 million per year right now from the playoffs, or roughly 11% of $600 million, not including the additional money paid for teams participating in the playoffs. If the playoffs expand and the pot does grow to $1.9 billion, the per conference payout goes to $209 million per P5 conference.
You have to take into account whether there will be a P5 payout or only a P4 payout. If it is contracted with the autonomous conferences, then the B12 is in good shape as one of those 5.
If the 8 remaining B12 schools stay together for whatever reason, and the B12 gets the same percent share of an expanded playoff, that’s $26 million per team, just base playoff pay.
The more teams the B12 adds, the smaller that per team chunk becomes. It would be in the B12’s interest to not jump too hastily into adding teams to the conference if the subsequent tv deal is not very financially rewarding. At most adding BYU and sitting at 9 might be the way to go.
The last caveat is how they determine the 12 teams. Initially the plan floated said the top 6 conference champs, but then Sankey- trying to play coy - said he didn’t know if conference champions should be a factor in determining who gets invited because he is counting on trying to get 12 SEC teams in each year.
The playoffs need to expand for WVU to have any type of financial security and they need for the playoffs to include the top 6 conference champs for WVU to have any shot at ever making the playoffs if stuck in a reconstructed B12.
