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Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast

Big 12 Revenues Exceed Expectations, Could College Football Go With a 48-Team Super Division?

Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast

Pete Mundo

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.8870 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The Big 12's latest revenue totals prove that while it trails the SEC and Big Ten, it's not going anywhere as a major Power 5 Conference. Pete Mundo explains what this means for the future of the league and conference realignment. Plus, could a 48-team college football super division be in the future? Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? Welcome in. I'm Pete Mundo, Heartland College Sports.com covering the

0:06.5

Big 12 conference. And in case you missed it, the Big 12 had itself outstanding, outstanding

0:12.9

numbers when it comes to revenues for the 2021, 2021, 2022 season. Those came out here in the last few

0:19.6

days. And I want to explain to you why that's

0:22.0

important and why that matters. Now, before we get into it, hit that subscribe button on the

0:27.3

channel on YouTube, on the podcast. We appreciate you being here and being a part of the show

0:32.1

and takes you two seconds, and we cover the Big 12 and, of course, all the other craziness

0:37.2

happening in college football

0:39.2

with the realignment madness right now and that's where this is all going to lead.

0:43.3

So the numbers came out late this past week and it showed the Big 12 finishing third in

0:50.0

conference payouts per team behind the SEC and the Big Ten. The numbers. The Big Ten paid out

0:56.2

$59 million. The SEC paid out $50 million. The Big 12 paid out $42 to $45 million. The ACC

1:06.1

ranged from $38 to $41 million. And the PAC 12 paid out $37 million.

1:13.2

That is on a per school basis.

1:15.1

So we're talking about, obviously, $40 to $60 million per team per Power 5 school.

1:23.3

That's astronomically higher than anybody else.

1:26.6

Remember, this is 2021, 2022, right?

1:30.7

So this is for the previous athletic year, not this past year, the previous athletic year.

1:36.9

This is a horrible look for the PAC 12.

1:40.3

For a PAC 12 conference that is trying to get a deal done right now. If you are a PAC 12 school,

1:47.6

if you are Colorado, if you are Arizona, why are you staying in this league right now? Why are you

1:55.5

doing it? You were trailing all the other Power 5 schools by millions of dollars with USC and UCLA.

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