[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

Some interesting Numbers...TV revenue is the future of college football what do these numbers say for the Big 12?

ACC: 8 states - 76,290,251

B1G: 11 states - 84,643,446

B12: 5 states - 38,137,438

PAC12: 6 states - 64,029,855

SEC: 11 states - 93,113,275

(The first number is the number of unique states each conference is in. The second number is the total population number of those states.)

The B12 has a problem with having four schools in the state of Texas. And they're one of two Power 5 conferences that are not fully "contiguous". Iowa State and West Virginia are on islands.

The other P5 conference that is not fully contiguous is the ACC and Boston College is the only school that is apart from the rest. All the other schools share at least one border.

The B1G, Pac12 and SEC are FULLY contiguous which is something I believe builds natural rivalries.

Now who could the B12 even invite to get them to 12, or more, schools AND even get close to the numbers that the B1G and SEC have today.

Remember the talk about the SEC adding a Virginia and North Carolina school? That would take the SEC over 111,000,000 people in their conference footprint.

You may not come to the same conclusion but if I was a B12 school NOT named OK or TX I'd be pretty concerned about the future of the conference.

Re: Texas, it's disingenuous to ascribe 30m each to the SEC and Big 12 unless you believe ATM carried equal weight to the four Big 12 schools there.