Champions Bowl Payout = $80 Million
by srr50 on Jul 30, 2025 2:29 PM CDT
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PrintThe Champions Bowl -- so new they don't even have their funny looking blazers picked out -- does have a multi-million dollar contract with ESPN.
The bowl, born out of an alliance between the SEC and the Big 12 has signed a contract with ESPN that will pay the two leagues the same money the Rose Bowl will get, $80 million a year.
ESPN continues to corner the college football market, agreeing to telecast the new bowl from 2015-2026. The payout means that each league gets $40 million a year.
I wasn't a math major at UT, but even I can figure out that when that money is divided evenly, the Big 12 will be giving out over $1 million more per year to its 10 members compared to the SEC with its 14 members.
Kinda puts the brakes on any Big 12 expansion rumors doesn't it?
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I hate
the Big 12 expansion rumours. Round Robin scheduling is probably the most exciting thing that has happened in Big 12 football.
by Nickel Rover on Jul 30, 2025 2:34 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
I saw...
…my first maroon SEC sticker yesterday on a pickup down here south of Houston. I chuckled.
by uthookem on Jul 30, 2025 2:34 PM CDT reply actions
The $EC may be sorry
That they rushed to get to 14 teams. It looked good at the time, when it appeared the Big XII might implode, and the era of 4 sixteen team superconferences seemed to be at hand. Now, not so much. They already have seen the problems with scheduling, trying to fit in their historic rivalries.
Maybe we could get them to pay us to take back the traitors. We could force Missouri to use their share of all revenues to install an actual, you know, football field. The aggies could…
Nope, never mind. Forget I ever said it.
by Longhorn in Canada on Jul 30, 2025 2:54 PM CDT reply actions
As far as
“but even I can figure out that when that money is divided evenly, the Big 12 will be giving out over $1 million more per year to its 10 members compared to the SEC with its 14 members.
Kinda puts the brakes on any Big 12 expansion rumors doesn’t it?"
Wouldn’t you actually have to add what their payout for the SEC Championship game is per team to come up with the correct number since the Big 12 Championship game payout w/10 teams is $0?
I found this for last year “Sixty-nine percent of the SEC’s revenue came from football television ($116.6 million), bowls ($34.2 million), and the SEC Championship Game ($15.3 million).”
It seems that $15.3 was actually after expenses (hard to tell from quote) I believe that $15.3 million is distributed evenly among the teams which would make it pretty much a wash at about $4 million per school for each conference.
by tdwalsh on Jul 30, 2025 3:32 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Don't forget that the 80 million is just for TV money.
I assume that ticket sales will make some additional money for the Big XII and SEC.
by Texas Wahoo on Jul 30, 2025 3:35 PM CDT up reply actions
I wouldn't count on that...
That would likely go to the bowl itself. Each school will likely have an allotment of tickets for which they are on the hook
@jimmygards
by ColoradoAg on Jul 30, 2025 5:05 PM CDT up reply actions
The two leagues own the bowl
so I doubt there will be much of a problem with ticket allotment.
by srr50 on Jul 30, 2025 5:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Neither Texas nor OU want a conference championship game.
This way they can tell their conference partners “You will get — at minimum — the same amount that the SEC teams get with a conference championship game. Why muddy up the waters by adding a couple of other teams right now, which may or may not bring enough in to balance cutting the pie up into two more slices.”
by srr50 on Jul 30, 2025 4:57 PM CDT up reply actions
Championship game requirement?
Srr, I thought I read somewhere that the Champion’s Bowl agreement would require the Big12 to add a conf. championship game. Am I mistaken?
by ArthurFenstemaker on Jul 30, 2025 6:54 PM CDT up reply actions
Right now that is just a rumor -- no confirmation
by srr50 on Jul 30, 2025 7:20 PM CDT up reply actions
pretty sure
both Neinas and Bowlsby said this was patently false at the Big 12 media days, and that there is nothing in the agreement that would encourage or force the conference to set up a championship game.
by Big(g) Ern on Jul 31, 2025 3:13 PM CDT up reply actions
was always a silly rumor
makes no sense on the face.
by CMDR on Jul 31, 2025 1:56 PM CDT up reply actions
If it wasn't already...
…expansion is a dead issue for the Big XII this year, and probably for a good while longer. The TEN Big XII members are gonna be very happy with their earnings statements from the conference, and not likely in the mood to share with two newcomers.
"Where is the church? Who took the steeple? Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people!" (The gospel according to Jimmy Buffett)
by coolhorn on Jul 30, 2025 3:57 PM CDT reply actions
If it makes sense to add the Florida TV market, the Big 12 will add FSU.
Of course, we have academics if we stay in the ACC [/sarc], but it is hard to argue with the financial contribution a minimum $5 million more coming through the door to the Big 12 would promise academics. Worrying about being an ‘island’ in the Big 12, given the ACC’s future, is up there with telling Nero to cut back on the fiddle.
I guess there's only one thing to do about the ACC...win the whole ****ing thing.
by seminole on Jul 30, 2025 4:31 PM CDT up reply actions
Are you A&M; in Florida to the Gator's Texas?
To what extent are you the Florida market? Not being a jerk - real question.
by Scipio Tex on Jul 30, 2025 5:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Miami is not much of a factor
right now, so I suppose that could change.
by srr50 on Jul 30, 2025 5:24 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't see how it doesn't make sense
But then I’m not a Big 12 decision maker.
FSU is everything that A&M could and should have been. Good recruiting, large alumni base, and an improving school in a large, growing state.
by egad '01 on Jul 30, 2025 5:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Does that B12 logo open at all? That bowl would look fantastic full of triscuits with some caviar all up in the middle.
by Tackchevy on Jul 30, 2025 4:09 PM CDT reply actions
Tsk tsk, Triscuits are too salty to pair with fine caviar
Personally I would go with the sweet crisp of a Nilla Wafer.
by Dagga Roosta on Jul 30, 2025 4:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Leave it to dagga...
To teach us how to eat caviar.
I personally have never (and probably will never) tried it.
May be awesome…I can’t get past the raw fish eggs part.
Nice to see you around again. Seemed you had been inactive of late. Perhaps I just missed your posts.
by e1 kabong on Jul 30, 2025 5:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Hey, sewer rat might taste like pumpkin pie...
…but I’d never know because I wouldn’t eat the filthy motherf*cker.
I’m right there with you…you lost me at “raw fish eggs.”
To err is human...but humans have such low standards.
by adt2 on Jul 31, 2025 9:46 AM CDT up reply actions
The key to enjoying caviar is vodka
Before and after. They go together like milk and cookies… except it’s fish eggs and vodka.
by notsofst on Jul 31, 2025 10:07 AM CDT up reply actions
Starting to make sense
why the Big Ten and Pac 12 have been so loathe to give up their Rose Bowl rivalry. That’s a nice guaranteed minimum bowl payout that you’re not going to get every year if your champ is playing at-large opponents.
by Dagga Roosta on Jul 30, 2025 4:27 PM CDT reply actions
Agree.
I was quite surprised at that number.
by e1 kabong on Jul 30, 2025 5:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Good opportunity
For renaming the conference. If an expansion back to 12 isn’t in the works, we should get rid of the misnomer and start drafting names. I vote for “Texas and Friends”
by HookemSpurs on Jul 30, 2025 4:32 PM CDT reply actions
Over/Under
On how many decades until aggy makes this bowl if ever?
by eljeffegrande on Jul 30, 2025 5:09 PM CDT reply actions
Better yet.
Over/Under on how long it takes for the SEC to feel the same way we do about the Ags?
by e1 kabong on Jul 30, 2025 5:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Less than one year
To get the basic idea.
Decades to really appreciate the weirdness that is Aggy.
by Longhorn in Canada on Jul 30, 2025 10:29 PM CDT up reply actions
It might already be happening
The question really is how long before Aggie starts to resent schools in the SEC like they resented the Big 12.
by notsofst on Jul 31, 2025 10:08 AM CDT up reply actions
Every day I realise more and more...
How ridiculously strategic Texas is in this whole realignment debacle.
There is only one thing more satisfying than seeing someone accomplish something with sheer force, and that is watching someone hand the dude using brute force his ass using cunning.
What? you want to TAKE two of our members to get a leg up? Alright….
Pssst. Yo TCU, WVU…want to join a real league? We’ve got openings.
So the SEC actually STRENGTHENS the Big 12. Priceless.
The pimp-hand is strong with this one (Dodds).
by e1 kabong on Jul 30, 2025 5:43 PM CDT reply actions
Does Dodds cackle after he says “everything is proceeding just as I had planned….”?
by nordberg on Jul 30, 2025 7:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Realignment will be more effected by the playoff payout
Someone mentioned already it’s not quite a apples/apples comparison b/c the SEC gets revenue from the SEC Champ game and they also expanded to increase their media footprint when they start up their network.
With that said when they decide how the payout from the playoff is determined we’ll have a better idea if the Big XII should expand.
by maninblack on Jul 30, 2025 6:47 PM CDT reply actions
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