Found this interesting.

TOTAL VIEWERS BY CONFERENCE MEMBER (GAMES ON ESPN CHANNELS, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, FS1) - FINAL

LISTED IN THE MILLIONS

CONFERENCE TOTAL
310.89 - SEC (73)
254.45 - ACC (66)
223.03 - Big Ten (69)
171.81 - Big 12 (97)
87.54 - Pac 12 (62)
67.00 - AAC (63)
31.07 - Sun Belt (44)
16.81 - MWC (29)
15.30 - CUSA (22)
13.44 - MAC (18)

PER MEMBER AVERAGE
22.21 - SEC (5.2)
17.18 - Big 12 (9.7)
16.96 - ACC (4.4)
15.93 - Big Ten (4.9)
7.30 - Pac 12 (5.2)
6.09 - AAC (5.7)
3.11 - Sun Belt (4.4)
1.40 - MWC (2.4)
1.18 - CUSA (1.7)
1.12 - MAC (1.5)

PER GAME AVERAGE
4.26 - SEC
3.86 - ACC
3.23 - Big Ten
1.77 - Big 12
1.41 - Pac 12
1.06 - AAC
0.75 - MAC
0.71 - Sun Belt
0.70 - CUSA
0.58 - MWC

BIG 12
30.72 - Oklahoma (10)
27.11 - Iowa State (12)
26.17 - Texas (9)
23.95 - Oklahoma State (11)
15.55 - West Virginia (10)
14.19 - Kansas State (10)
10.87 - TCU (10)
10.74 - Texas Tech (8)
8.02 - Baylor (9)
4.49 - Kansas (8)

ACC
70.52 - Notre Dame (12)
60.22 - Clemson (9)
24.22 - North Carolina (8)
21.72 - Miami (7)
13.62 - Georgia Tech (5)
11.59 - Florida State (4)
11.50 - Boston College (3)
8.97 - Louisville (4)
7.00 - Virginia Tech (3)
5.58 - NC State (3)
5.49 - Pittsburgh (2)
5.44 - Wake Forest (2)
4.71 - Duke (2)
3.87 - Syracuse (2)
0.00 - Virginia (0)

BIG TEN
69.01 - Ohio State (7)
22.01 - Indiana (8)
21.38 - Northwestern (6)
19.87 - Michigan (5)
18.28 - Penn State (7)
16.93 - Michigan State (6)
16.54 - Wisconsin (5)
12.61 - Nebraska (5)
9.50 - Minnesota (4)
8.91 - Iowa (6)
3.11 - Illinois (4)
2.86 - Maryland (2)
1.56 - Rutgers (3)
0.46 - Purdue (1)

PAC 12
19.81 - Oregon (7)
13.37 - Southern Cal (6)
7.28 - UCLA (7)
6.47 - Stanford (6)
6.18 - Colorado (5)
6.12 - Arizona (5)
6.05 - Utah (5)
5.71 - Oregon State (6)
5.21 - Washington (4)
4.32 - Arizona State (4)
4.03 - Washington State (4)
2.99 - California (3)

SEC
87.64 - Alabama (12)
44.33 - Florida (11)
34.67 - Georgia (5)
28.65 - Auburn (8)
27.36 - Texas A&M (8)
23.31 - LSU (6)
17.26 - Tennessee (5)
11.67 - Mississippi (3)
11.12 - Mississippi State (4)
8.40 - South Carolina (4)
7.15 - Arkansas (3)
5.22 - Kentucky (2)
2.09 - Missouri (1)
2.02 - Vanderbilt (1)

AAC
16.55 - Cincinnati (8)
10.36 - Central Florida (8)
8.42 - Tulsa (9)
8.31 - Navy (6)
5.44 - Memphis (6)
5.11 - Houston (5)
5.08 - Tulane (8)
3.37 - SMU (6)
2.31 - East Carolina (4)
2.05 - South Florida (3)
0.00 - Temple (0)

CUSA
4.34 - Marshall (3)
3.13 - UTSA (4)
2.13 - Louisiana Tech (5)
1.83 - Western Kentucky (3)
1.27 - Florida Atlantic (1)
0.64 - Middle Tennessee (1)
0.64 - North Texas (1)
0.50 - UAB (1)
0.41 - Charlotte (1)
0.28 - Southern Miss (1)
0.13 - UTEP (1)

MAC
3.83 - Buffalo (4)
2.65 - Ball State (2)
1.20 - Western Michigan (2)
1.19 - Central Michigan (2)
1.15 - Kent State (2)
0.96 - Akron (1)
0.72 - Toledo (1)
0.71 - Ohio (1)
0.64 - Miami-OH (1)
0.20 - Northern Illinois (1)
0.19 - Bowling Green (1)

MWC
3.56 - San Jose State (4)
2.94 - Boise State (4)
2.32 - Nevada (4)
2.16 - Hawaii (2)
1.52 - Utah State (3)
1.47 - San Diego State (2)
1.17 - New Mexico (3)
0.49 - Air Force (2)
0.44 - UNLV (2)
0.29 - Colorado State (1)
0.26 - Wyoming (1)
0.19 - Fresno State (1)

SUN BELT
6.42 - Coastal Carolina (7)
6.16 - Louisiana-Lafayette (6)
4.71 - Appalachian State (7)
4.20 - Arkansas State (6)
2.60 - Texas State (4)
2.04 - Georgia State (3)
1.74 - Georgia Southern (4)
1.61 - Troy (3)
1.46 - South Alabama (3)
0.13 - Louisiana-Monroe (1)

INDEPENDENTS
9.95 - Army (4)
9.50 - BYU (11)
2.87 - Liberty (3)
0.13 - Massachusetts (1)

Nobody is going anywhere. Didnt we learn from this 10 years ago? This is a negotiating tactic.

BWillie working hard on the "always wrong" perception.

OU and UT have already announced they are leaving, it's just a matter of the buyout in 2 years or waiting the full 4.

And btw, 10 years ago the Big 12 lost 4 schools. It wasn't nothing.

EMAW is scared of another Asbury/Wooly era after running off Altman, because he wasn’t Kruger. As such, Weber will hang around (which coming full circle on the Illinois thing…EMAW thought they had a chance at Underwood, thinking he’d come home after his success at SFA, only to go to Champaign, after he wiped his ass with the Pokes - kind of ironic).

K-State could have had Underwood but they dragged their feet.

They also could have brought Gary Patterson home after Snyder retired the first time but, some idiot leaked the talks and Patterson quickly backed out.

We’ll be lucky to end up in one of the super conferences when this is all said and done with our boneheaded track record.

Where the real issue lies here is if you have 4 16 team power conferences and likely Notre Dame as an Indy..you have 65 teams.

Those conferences could very easily break away from the NCAA to form their own league. If that happens there's no telling what happens to the rest of college football, whether those teams join the FCS or try to form something else.

They should form something else.

I'm pretty sure that's the endgame, those schools make so much more money if they aren't giving the NCAA anything and they're playing top competition constantly.

You're downside is it could literally become a 2 conference type of thing resembling the AFC and NFC where it's literally NFL he with just the big boys.

That’s the end game. But instead of two conferences and 32 teams, it’s four conferences and 64 teams.

It's already in the Iowa athletic department that they will vote no if ISU is to be voted in. Plus the BIG will listen to Iowa and ISU going mid major only helps Iowa in a small state which is good for the conference. Iowa also controls the market in the state so bringing Iowa State does nothing as they are awful historically in football and good in basketball. This about money and football and neither are strong suits for ISU.

Good thing it takes more than one vote, and no one else has a reason to vote no other than the instate school that’s been shitting themselves recently about Iowa States recent emergence and now taking the top instate recruits.

Plus ISU going to a midmajor is so outdated. Quit listening to your friends on Facebook. Worst case scenario is they join the “Midwest division” of the Pac16/20.

Iowa in the B1G is like aTm in the SEC. their vote doesn’t matter, and they were left out of talks for a reason.

So this is happening. I’m surprised people people still have their heads in the sand. Fresh new take.

Also what exactly does Iowa “control” in state? If you go up a few posts to the viewers per school, Iowa sure as hell didn’t even have half the total viewers per game. It’s not recruiting anymore. The only thing they have right now is racism which we will gladly let you have that.