BIG XII is getting 80 million annually for Champions Bowl?

[CyFan61]

I think it should be 80/2/10, or 4 million, pre-expenses.

Does the Big 12 get an equal share to the SEC, or does each Big 12 school get an equal share as each SEC school?

With one conference having 10 schools and the other having 14, that's almost a $700,000 difference depending on how it's split.

[Cyclone711]

$$$ = Wins

Ask the Cubs.

Ask Oklahoma State/Oregon

[rebecacy]

Also, how much of that actually gets paid out to conferences? I'm guessing not a lot. These bowls have become very good at making money while there are many cases of schools losing money because of ridiculous ticket allotments that schools are forced to take.

The reason the two conferences set up this game is to avoid your concern. The game belongs to the conferences not the bowl.

[jaretac]

But that's the whole brilliance of the Championship Bowl. It's an arrangement between the SEC and Big 12 without a Bowl in the way. There is no middle man to skim the money off the top. The Bowl that is usually 'very good at making money' is the conferences themselves in this case.

It sounds like a bowl might be involved though. They said something about the Cotton bowl. What it sounds like to me is more like the BCS system of using already existing bowl games.

[Cyclophile1]

Does the Big 12 get an equal share to the SEC, or does each Big 12 school get an equal share as each SEC school?

With one conference having 10 schools and the other having 14, that's almost a $700,000 difference depending on how it's split.

You can bet that if Texas has anything to say about it, it will split evenly by the conference, as in $40 million each and up to each respective conference to decide how it gets split from there. No way that Texas and OU will be willing to settle for 80/24 and subsidizing the extra four teams. No way, no how. I would be absolutely shocked if 80/24 happened and a VERY bad start to the Bowlsby leadership era.

[Hawkeye11en1]

Ask Oklahoma State/Oregon

But Erik isn't a fan of those teams.

[cstrunk]

How in the world can one bowl game earn that kind of money?

[DurangoCy]

Money can now got directly to the conferences and athletes in the form of bribes, cars, vacations and strip clubs.

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[WhatchaGonnaDo]

SEZ! SEZ! SEZ!

[Al_4_State]

Agreed, this is why I have said the death of major bowl games is coming. Conferences will get in on this, once the playoff is up to 16 teams.

I think its more likely that the bowl games become overtaken by the participating conferences, cut out the middle man, and make even more money.

[Go2Guy]

80-Million for the rights to a game. This is insane.

[ripvdub]

Espn demands a very high premium just to carry them, so if it helps keep them the worldwide leader, and gives all their other shows something to talk about, with the advertising for the game as well as the other shows...

[HFCS]

Does the Big 12 get an equal share to the SEC, or does each Big 12 school get an equal share as each SEC school?

With one conference having 10 schools and the other having 14, that's almost a $700,000 difference depending on how it's split.

I've been wondering about this too.

In the hopes of it succeeding long term I hope it's equal per school even though that means less for ISU. If we've learned anything it's that permanent structures that lead to more and more unequal sharing are not good for stability. There's still more of it in the Big 12 than the SEC an Big Ten but the reason we're on solid ground now is because we've moved toward their models and away from our old one that was destroying the B12.

[boone7247]

But that's the whole brilliance of the Championship Bowl. It's an arrangement between the SEC and Big 12 without a Bowl in the way. There is no middle man to skim the money off the top. The Bowl that is usually 'very good at making money' is the conferences themselves in this case.

Thanks for pointing this out to everyone. I think it has been lost since the announcement.

The SEC and Big 12 stand to make a substantial sum from the game, as they will get the TV rights and whatever the host stadium bids for the game. According to the site below the BCS bowls pay out 17,000,000 per team and the champion ship game $18m. The SEC/Big 12 game should get at the least $50m from TV, and unlike the bowls that won't be shared with the host, so all $50 comes to the conferences. Plus sponsorship of the game, and whatever the bid is to host the game by whichever, city/stadium. And remember this is just another bowl game for the two conferences, so if we get a team in the playoff, which is likely, this is like icing on the cake.

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[VeloClone]

It sounds like a bowl might be involved though. They said something about the Cotton bowl. What it sounds like to me is more like the BCS system of using already existing bowl games.

Where they referring to the bowl game being involved or the venue (also called the Cotton Bowl) being involved?